Visit the Power Station of Art

Power Station of Art offers the most dramatic museum experience in Shanghai, housed in a former power plant whose hulking industrial shell stages contemporary works. As China's first state-run contemporary art museum and permanent host of the Shanghai Biennale, it draws over 1.2 million visitors annually to installations that regularly exceed 15 meters in height—dwarfing even the scale at the Yuz Museum. Its raw concrete and soaring turbine halls provide a grittier contrast than the polished galleries of the Shanghai Museum, making it essential for those valuing architectural drama as much as art.