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Built in the 1930s as the clubhouse for the race track that stood where People's Square is now, the Shanghai Museum of Art has recently expanded its exhibition roster to include foreign artists. The Museum is also the hub for the Shanghai Biennale. Kathleen's 5 rooftop restaurant sits atop the building.

The best part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA) is the prime location smack dab in a lovely green portion of People's Square. Sunlight and panoramic views pour in through the museum's floor to ceiling glass walls. International exhibitions are the name of the game at MOCA with Spain's flamboyant architect, Antoni Gaudi, highlighting last year's exhibitions and Salvatore Ferragamo...

Is it an art gallery? A gay bar? An underwear shop? Does anyone really care when there are pictures of partially and fully nude men adorning the walls? A 6x30 foot shack in a lane off of Huaihai Zhong Lu opens into this underground lair of corridors, bars, a lounge and men's lingerie store. The art's not great but the artists do nice things, like give their money to AIDS organizations.

Located in the tough-to-get-to Hongkou district, the Duolun museum is the first state-owned hub dedicated solely to modern art. Spiral staircases wind through the seven-story Bauhaus structure that collaborates with Asian museums to bring in the occasional big name. The Duolun is worth visiting for the architecture, its surrounding neighborhood and its eye-catching modern sculpture. However, the...

One of Shanghai's best and most visited museums, the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall at People's Square documents the changing face of Shanghai and is an essential vising point for those interested in the evolution of the city. A perfect scale model of the entire city on the 6th floor model shows planned and recent developments of Shanghai.

1933 transforms an old art deco abattoir into a creative hub hosting restaurants, creative retail, design companies, artists, galleries and design and exhibition spaces across four heritage-listed building.

With a sister gallery in Beijing, Art Scene Warehouse at Moganshan Lu's M50 space is one of Shanghai's leading galleries - and, at almost 1000sqm, it's also one of the city's biggest. The gallery specializes in work by young Chinese contemporary artists.

Located on the tenth floor of the New World Building, Madame Tussauds allows visitors to mingle with the rich, famous and (sometimes) deceased. Aside from taking your picture onstage with Michael Jackson you can also walk through Madame's maze of horror. This experience, appropriately named 'Scream' promises to leave you terrified.

This large Swiss-owned gallery opened its doors on Moganshan Lu in 1996. ShanghART was the first gallery in China to participate in major international art fairs, such as Art Basel. The works may not always be thrilling, but the artists exhibited are always well-known.

SGA hosts well-known artists such as Gu Dexin in its vaulted, 1,000 sqm of exhibition space with views of the river.