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World Expo Museum station

metro station in Shanghai, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5957575 ↗
Source-derived summary

World Expo Museum Station (simplified Chinese: 世博会博物馆; traditional Chinese: 世博會博物館; pinyin: Shìbóhuì Bówùguǎn) is the name of a station on Line 13 of the Shanghai Metro. It was previously known as Lupu Bridge Station (卢浦大桥; 盧浦大橋; Lúpǔ Dàqiáo). It opened on 19 December 2015.

Editorial summary

“World Expo Museum station” enters the record as metro station in Shanghai, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Expo and Museum can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-12-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Expo and Museum.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“World Expo Museum station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Expo and Museum provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5957575. Authority coordinates are 31.199, 121.477. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “World Expo Museum station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow World Expo Museum station primary sources, World Expo Museum station archive and World research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “World Expo Museum station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “World Expo Museum station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.