The“World Expo Museum” Stop of Line 13 has just launched its test run. Let’s explore the station to feel the aura of art via our guide.

The station hall is suffused with elements of Expo: 13 blue and purple uprights catch our eyes by standing at the centre of the hall, delivering the cultural concepts and ideas of Expo and presenting the Expo as a humanistic home of integration and happy reunion via a lavish display of lines, characters, symbols and images. Heading to the World Expo Museum through the passageway of Exit 2, a thematic wall named “Expo• Reunion”, composed of a screen, steel-plate anaglyphs and Acrylic lights, welcomes all passengers with a Expo promotion videos to give an overview of the World Expo Museum.  

Designed and constructed by Shanghai Municipal City Government and the Bureau of International Expositions, the World Expo Museum is noted for its internationality, uniqueness, topicality and sustainability. It is not only the first international museum across mainland China in real sense but also the single museum fully displaying Expo theme in the whole world. The museum is set to becoming an internationalized, open museum of design and innovation and a global academic exchange center of worldwide reputation, ranking top in China, unique in Shanghai and distinctive in characteristics. It is still under construction at present and expected to open in 2016.

Line 13 served as Expo’s exclusive line during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and visitors could take it for free with Expo tickets. During the event, there were only 3 stops along the line to facilitate the visiting between the Puxi and Pudong Sections—Madang Road Station, Expo Avenue Station and Lupu Bridge Station which has been renamed World Expo Museum Station lately.