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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 32 museums
Best museums in Shanghai
The 10 most notable museums in Shanghai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
藝倉美術館 Modern Art Museum, Shanghai
上海市浦东新区滨江大道4777号
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.371, percentile 100 of 32
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2
Long Museum, West Bund
龙腾大道3398号
604 m from Nanpu Railway Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.367, percentile 96.77 of 32
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3
Shanghai Himalayas Museum
Yinghua Road 869
168 m from Huamu Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.342, percentile 93.55 of 32
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4
Guanfu Museum
37/F 479 Lujiazui Ring Rd
436 m from Lujiazui station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.325, percentile 90.32 of 32
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5
西岸美术馆 West Bund Museum
2600 Longteng Ave 龙腾大道2600号
498 m from Yunjin Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.323, percentile 87.1 of 32
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6
AuroraMuseum 上海震旦博物館
上海市浦東新區富城路99號
342 m from Lujiazui station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.322, percentile 83.87 of 32
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7
Powerlong Museum (宝龙美术馆)
3055 Caobao Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.289, percentile 80.65 of 32
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8
Power Station of Art
678 Miaojiang Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.281, percentile 77.42 of 32
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9
Yuz Museum
526 m from Yunjin Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.262, percentile 74.19 of 32
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10
Shanghai Museum of Glass Park
West Changjiang Rd. 685
377 m from West Changjiang Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.261, percentile 70.97 of 32
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).