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Masonry office building of former British American Tobacco reopens as art museum

THE former office building of the British American Tobacco that once monopolized local market has reopened to the public as a modern art museum after a year-long renovation, the chief designer said today.

The Yee Tsoong Tobacco Co. Building built in 1920 by the company will exhibit paintings, sculptures and innovative furniture. The former garage has been renovated into a lounge bar.

The four-story masonry structure in Neoclassical style was the Shanghai headquarters of the tobacco company that firstly introduced foreign cigarettes to Shanghai and monopolized the market for decades.

The building was then transformed into the factory building for the Shanghai camera plant after 1949 where China’s first domestically made camera was manufactured.

The renovation of the building marks the beginning of a series of historic buildings in the Bund area to be renovated and reopen to the public. They will include the Union Church built by British colonists in 1886.




 

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