Swatch Art Peace Hotel
LandmarkThe Bund & East Nanjing Road
SWATCH ART PEACE HOTEL · SIWOQI HEPINGFANDIAN YISHU ZHONGXIN
FreeClosure day
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Bund No. 19 at the Nanjing Road corner — the 1908 Palace Hotel with its striped white-and-red brick Renaissance facade, one of the first buildings in Shanghai with passenger lifts. Today it is Swatch's artist-residency house: the ground floor is open in business hours, and it is NOT the Peace Hotel — that green pyramid next door is No. 20.
AdmissionGround floor free; upstairs shows free with QR reservation
HoursDuring show runs, typically Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00
ClosedUpstairs closed between shows
LandmarkBund No. 19
Address23 Nanjing East Road
EntranceGround-floor entrance on the Nanjing Road corner
It sits on the busiest corner of Nanjing Road — mornings are calmest for the facade; the ground floor is rarely crowded.
How to visit
- How to spot it: white walls with red-brick stripes, like a striped shirt — a totally different character from the granite-and-green-pyramid Peace Hotel next door at No. 20.
- Upstairs are studios for Swatch's international artists-in-residence (three-to-six-month stays), open to the public only during exhibitions — free with QR reservation; the ground floor holds Swatch, Omega and Longines boutiques, free to walk into in shop hours.
Did you know
- Opened in 1908 as the Palace Hotel, among Shanghai's most luxurious — and one of the first buildings in the city with passenger lifts.
- The 1909 International Opium Commission met in this building — one of the starting points of global drug control.
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