Chris and I are true geeks at heart. So of cousre, a trip to Shanghai Science & Technology Museum was in order, especially since we were in the area doing Resident Permits. For 60? (US$8.70) pp, you get to wander through 68,000 square meters of geek paradise. There’s entertainment for the whole family, with 5 large main areas –
1) “Earth Exploration” exhibit is a journey to the center of the Earth, complete with fossils
2) “Children’s Technoland” has a walk-in heart and brain, as well as a simulated construction zone with soft foam bricks
3) The vast “Light of Wisdom” area has over a hundred interactive stations that bring scientific principles to life.
4) “Cradle of Designers” gives you the chance to design your own cards or create your own video.
5) “Spectrum of Life” is a simulated tropical rainforest with robotic beetles and a bat cave
(above descriptions from Frommers.com)

The glass-walled building is flat-out impressive from the outside. I’ve never seen a science & technology museum quite as large as this, it absolutely knocked our socks off. I won’t even try and decide which one I liked the best.. I loved them all! The “hands on” approach was fantastic and I actually learned quite a bit there (thankfully, everything was both in Chinese and English). It’s phenomenal that such a huge and well-built museum would cost so little per person – definitely the best part 😉 The only downside was that it was so massive we didn’t get a chance to finish seeing it all before it closed! Arghhhh! Nevermind, will go back with friends and family again – it’s well worth a second trip.

The huge walkway, just randomly there

Me levitating outside the Science & Technology Museum

That globe was ENORMOUS. And the whole place was covered in glass. Impressive.

These little ice cream bonbons with black sesame seeds in the chocolate!

Model of an oil rig

Little men

A shakey bridge inside a ‘limestone cave’

A billion Beverlys and Chris’

Animal World

In the Kid’s Play World

I loved these big glass globes that you press your fingertips against to ‘move’ the strands of lightning

Inside a rainforest. It was all artificial but we had to touch the leaves just to be sure, and even then it still felt real!

Peeking out from the little underground nook we crept into

Chris tries his hand at archery VS the robot on the left

Astronomy World.. Wow.