上海当代艺术博物馆
Former riverside power plant turned contemporary art museum, its towering chimney doubling as a giant glowing thermometer.
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This museum in Shanghai occupies the Nanshi Electric Plant, founded in 1897 under the last imperial dynasty and, by January 1898, powering the city's first electric bulb and thirty street lamps along the Bund. The guide follows the plant through a century of coal-fired growth to its 2007 shutdown, and how planners chose the derelict shell for the 2010 World Expo instead of building new. Listen for what architects did with the old turbines and staircases when they turned the building into a museum.
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