Opened in 2005, this beautiful three-story glass structure houses Shanghai's first contemporary art museum, and has become a good pacesetter in China's contemporary art scene today. While not in the same league as better-known MOCAs around the world, the museum's two floors of exhibition space connected by a curving ramp are enough to showcase plenty of goofy, interesting, ridiculous, sublime, "this-is-art?" paintings, photographs, and installations by Chinese and international artists. For those immune to the charms of modern art, the building itself is quite interesting and can be appreciated gratis from the outside or if you simply tell them at the door that you're going to the MOCA Caffee restaurant on the third floor. There you can dine on decent Italian fare or just sip your cappuccino on the rooftop terrace.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Shanghai, 5th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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