The museum's total exhibition area covers 1.17 hectares. The German-designed museum looks like overlapped books, a metaphor for learning.
The exhibition space is composed of five pavilions dedicated respectively to history; technology; antique cars; famous brands and changing auto-themed exhibits. The history hall is located on the first floor and depicts significant events in the development of automobiles. The technology pavilion focuses on eight themes-manufacturing; conformation; design; materials; safety; comfort; electronic features and energy. Here visitors can experience the artificial intelligence in automobiles through interactive participation. The antique cars pavilion is on the second floor and displays forty cars manufactured in the U.S.A. and Europe between 1902 and 1977. The bulk of the cars are provided by America's Blackhawk Auto Museum and range from the aristocratic Rolls-Royce to the simple and practical Model-T Ford. The famous brands hall is located on the third floor and emphasizes the vast number of auto brands that have surfaced in the last hundred years. The fifth pavilion is dedicated to showcasing exhibits of a temporary nature.
The museum has over seventy classic vehicles on display representing twenty different brands that have had a significant impact in auto history. Brands range from the Rolls-Royce to such leading national brands as Ford, Citroen, Fiat, Volkswagen and Toyota. Even China's first generation car the Red Flag CA72, first made in 1958, is on display.
On Dec.18, 2009, the Automotive Exploration Hall was added to Shanghai Auto Museum and opened to the public. It focuses on automotive popular science. Young people and automotive enthusiasts can go there to understand the history, culture and science of automobiles.
The Automotive Exploration Hall is located on the third floor in the museum and covers an area of 2,000 square meters (2,392 square yards). It is divided into three function areas including automotive elementary knowledge, automotive design and manufacture as well as experience area. There are over 10 real objects and machines demonstrating presentation and 20 multi-media interactive presentations, from which visitors can learn about the automobile's structure, power, safety, comfort and future.
The completion of the Automotive Exploration Hall has brought long steps to Shanghai Auto Museum in the goal of becoming a popular science museum on automobiles. At present, Shanghai Auto Museum is making efforts on the popularization and exchange of automotive culture and continues to cooperate with domestic and overseas manufacturers. Henceforth, the museum will keep up the good work to create it into a platform with wide international influence on the research and spread of automotive culture.
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