Shanghai History Museum
Basement exhibition tracing a port city's rise via relics, dioramas and wax-figure scenes.
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This guide to the Shanghai History Museum opens at Wusong Fort on June 16, 1842, as fourteen British warships sail up the mouth of the Yangtze and open fire on the fort guarding the river approach to the city. Every soldier around him ran; the sixty-six-year-old Qing commander manning the guns did not. Listen for the name of his aide, mentioned only once, as you move toward the gallery ahead.
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