Shanghai, China opened up a new tourist attraction in 2011 that gained worldwide popularity. That tourist attraction is a two-storey Museum made of Glass. Thus, given the name Shanghai Museum of Glass with the primary purpose to tell people the history of craft and construction of glass and to cherish the history of glass. It has all types of glass works from all eras. It covers all the glassworks from the early stages to the ongoing innovation in the glass industry.
Another amazing thing about the Museum is its architecture, which is urn-shaped. It was actually a glass melting workshop where the glass was melt to bend it into different shapes which has now been transformed into a museum. It has been kept in mind while designing the museum that the old architecture of the glass factory is preserved. This former glass manufacturing site covers a total area of 29,612 sqm including thirty existing buildings varying in age and scale. Logon developed the entire 20 year strategic development plan renaming the site to G+ Glass Theme Park (Glass, Art, Research and Technology Park). Phase one includes the Shanghai Museum of Glass and a hot glass show covering a total site area of 5,785sqm.
Shanghai Museum of Glass is not the first museum to be opened in China. Shanghai has hundreds of other kinds of museums where different kinds of art and architectural history are preserved. China is planning to become a center of culture and history and these museums help to enhance this movement.
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