Shanghai Museum built the heritage conservation technology science laboratory , is the first laboratory which is established systematacially of the domestic museums in 1960. Until 1995, it has developed into a painting and calligraphy heritage conservation, anti-corrosion of metal artifacts, the protection of lacquer, bronze making technique of component analysis of ancient ceramics, TL determination of relics years, laser holography, soft X-ray detection, as well as the Museum of environmental monitoring and many othera professional laboratory. Assume the responsibilities of the National Heritage Board heritage conservation technology testing station since 1987.

Shanghai Museum built the conservation factory in 1958. It mainly to repair and copy the museum piece. It also repair the exhibitions and framed painting and calligraphy for the brothers museum and the foreign museums. It has repaired the bronze and ceramics for more than 1,400 during the 37 years.

The factory also mount 1,800 pieces of the painting. There are many important cultural relics, like the Shangyu Posts of Xizhi Wang, the Manhattan Figure Volumes of Sunwei Tang and so on. They are mounted carefully and protected appropiately.

In order to display need, the factory also copy the painting and calligraphy masterpieces of more than 30 sites artificially. For example,the Manhattan Figure Volumes of Sunwei Tang, the Liu Crow LuYan Celestial of Zhaoji Song and so on, and they are copied on the basic of the master copy. No matter the size, color, temperament and the mounting craft, they are nearly the same with the original. These copies ever displayed in Japan, Yugoslavia,Austrulia and so on. And these copies were appreciated by the artists.

The museum publishs the Atlas of the Shanghai Museum paintings, the Shanghai Museum Bronze, the Shanghai Museum ceramics, the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Museum Tibet and India, the Shanghai Museum Ming and Qing law book, the Chenghua rap book and other topics Atlas dozsent. Annual for the Shanghai Museum Bulletin.