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Shanghai Children's Palace
 

Location:City Center

Shanghai Children PalaceDescription: The building of the Municipal Children's Palace was the former villa of an English businessman named Alley Kadoorie. It is wholly built of marble; it is also called the ¡°Marble Hall¡±. Its construction started in 1918 and was completed in 1924. In 1953, Madame Song Ching Ling founded the China Welfare Society Children's Palace here. The main building is of a palace style. There are other halls, like the Science Hall, the Art and Recreation Hall, a small stage, and an observatory. Every year, over a million children come to take part in different kinds of activities here. There are over a hundred hobby groups, like the chorus, folk music, orchestral music, painting, calligraphy, biology, astronomy, etc. It has trained a large number of scientific and artistic personnel for our country.
 
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