Start your tour of the waterfront here. The museum is in the old Signal Tower on the Bund at Zhongshan Dong Er Lu and has many old black and white photographs of Shanghai's waterfront dating from treaty port days. The Signal Tower was built in 1865 and was originally located a few yards away before being moved to its current location in 1993. In l999 it was restored as a museum. Climb the circular staircase inside the tower for a wonderful view of the present-day Bund.



