跑马总会大楼的历史变迁

The Changes of the Shanghai Race Club Building

建造于20世纪二三十年代的跑马总会大楼,曾经历过多次更新利用,上海解放前是跑马总会用楼,解放后先后作为上海图书馆、上海博物馆、上海美术馆馆舍,并于2017年底经修缮后作为上海市历史博物馆(上海革命历史博物馆)向公众开放。本文将大楼的历史分为诞生、重生、新生三个阶段,从建筑本体的更新、象征意义的改变、文化内涵的传承等角度,详述大楼的历史变迁。

The Shanghai Race Club Building was constructed in the 1920 s and 1930 s as the clubhouse building of the Shanghai Race Club before liberation, and after 1949 it underwent several renovations when successively serving as Shanghai Library, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and finally Shanghai History Museum & Shanghai Revolution History Museum, which completed its repair work in the end of 2017. This paper, dividing the history of the Building into three stages of birth, rebirth and new life, expatriates upon the changes of the Building from perspectives including the renovation of the building itself, the alteration of the symbolic meaning and the inheritance of the cultural connotation.