Shanghai Museum of Public Security

• Shanghai Museum of Public Security August 17, 2006

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 over one hundred years of history, the Shanghai Police department

is going to unveil their mysterious world to you today. Covering

an area of 8,050-square-meters, the museum has 11 exhibition halls

with different themes. The halls record the achievements

and history of the Shanghai Police since 1854.

Official website: http://www.policemuseum.com.cn/

A

replica of the old Tilanqiao Prison. Built in 1902, it is known

as "the first prison in the Far East." It held Chen Duxiu,

a co-founder of the Communist Party of China, in the 1920s, and

Japanese war criminals in 1945.

From

left to right: Waxworks of an Indian patrolman with whiskers, an

English patrolman and a Chinese patrolman.

Guns

used by Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the KMT party.

These

drawers were used to keep census information cards in the last

century.

A

restored motorcycle made by a US company in the last century.

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