Shikumen Open House Museum

Restored shikumen lane house in Xintiandi, furnished as a 1930s upper-middle-class home. Compact and informative.

The Shikumen Open House Museum occupies one of the restored 1920s shikumen lane houses in Xintiandi. The building is furnished as it would have been in the 1930s, with original-style fittings, a courtyard, kitchens, bedrooms, parlour. The compact museum gives a real sense of how a Shanghai middle-class family lived in the era when most of the city was lane houses.