Located at No.64 of Yanan Road in Shanghai, the Children's Palace now is an interesting place for foreigners to visit, where many enjoyable performances will be shown by Chinese children. It is one of the most famous and is basically designed for children to study and practice the arts after school. Today, gifted children attend and learn to dance & sing the theater, play folk or Western musical instruments, Wushu, ballet, computer science as well as other art skill.

The building of the Children's Palace was the former villa of an English businessman named Alley Kadoorie. It is wholly built of marble, also called the "Marble Hall". Its construction started in 1918 and was completed in 1924. In 1953, Madame Song Ching Ling founded the China Welfare Society Children's Palace here. The main building is of a palace style. There are other halls, like the Science Hall, the Art and Recreation Hall, a small stage, and an observatory. Every year, over a million children come to take part in different kinds of activities here.