Science Podcasting

Leave the traditional guided walks behind and strike out at your own pace with an audio guide. This bilingual podcast is presented by Shanghai Daily and supervised by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee.

With stars twinkling in the dark blue sky, the mysterious Milky Way overlooks the earth in a never-changing silence. Have you ever, when looking up on a cool summer night, felt envious of the serenity and curious about this enigmatic cosmos?

Today, let's walk into Shanghai Astronomical Museum on the top of Sheshan Hill in Songjiang District, and be lost in time amid the glittering stars.

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Shanghai Astronomical Museum is in Songjiang District, near Shanghai's largest Catholic Church, The Virgin Mary Cathedral, at the top of Sheshan Hill.

A newly built exhibition hall, introducing the concept of time.

The Prin meridional instrument, bought from Paris in 1925. It is a special telescope made to measure time by observing stars.

The main building of Sheshan observing station, a French-style construction built by French Mission Catholique in 1900.

The pictures on this corridor wall tell stories of astronomical telescopes.

A 40cm double refracting telescope, the oldest astrograph in Shanghai, built in 1900, is the treasure of the museum.