After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the United Nations World Health Organization worked here, which was the first office of the organization in the Asia-Pacific region.
1954 is the office of Sino-Soviet friendship organs.
1960 Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts moved in.
1989 was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai. From 65438 to 0963, under the care of Comrade Chen Yi, the best Shanghai folk arts and crafts artists worked and taught here one after another, and at the same time, a arts and crafts showroom was established.
In 200 1 year, under the guidance of the Municipal Cultural Management Committee, Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts restored the building and set up a museum and professional workshops.
Former US President Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Heath, boxing champion Ali and the Egyptian President's wife have all visited here. The Academy of Arts and Crafts has developed into a comprehensive cultural place integrating collection, exhibition, popularization, communication and tourism. There are three exhibition halls for folk arts and crafts, sculpture and embroidery in the main building, and there are more than ten professional studios, where more than 50 arts and crafts professionals are concentrated.
For hundreds of years, Shanghai's arts and crafts have widely absorbed local specialties and formed a "Shanghai style" arts and crafts with distinctive regional style with an open consciousness. At the beginning of the establishment of Shanghai Academy of Arts and Crafts, out of concern for traditional arts and crafts, the Party and the government gathered a group of Shanghai folk art masters with unique skills, such as He Keming, the "king of lanterns", Wang Zigong, Liu Peizhen, Gao and Meijun Zhang, Xu, the founder of "Shanghai School" boxwood carving, Xue Foying, an expert in fine carving, Yang, a master of porcelain carving, and Chen Duanyou, an inkstone carving artist. 1964 1 month 15, President Zhu De wrote an inscription for Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts: "Inheriting and Carrying Forward the Excellent Arts and Crafts Tradition", which further established the protection policy for traditional arts and crafts. It is under the implementation of this policy that the older generation of masters of arts and crafts left exquisite and elegant works, which left a brilliant page for the arts and crafts cause of the motherland and precious wealth for future generations. Many of these works have reached the peak of their major, and no one can surpass them so far. Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts and Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts have collected such works for people to observe and study.
Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum and Shanghai Institute of Arts and Crafts have a long history, distinctive local style and mature production skills. All kinds of products created by occupations are handmade, and most of them are created for single items. There are velvet embroidery, embroidery, lantern color, dough sculpture, paper-cutting, jade carving, Qi Diao, mosaic, inkstone carving, bamboo carving, fine carving and craft painting.