上海博物馆东馆是上海市新建三大文化设施中唯一由中国建筑师原创中标的设计方案。作为世界顶级的中国古代艺术博物馆，上博东馆将是一座面向未来的特大型博物馆。建筑设计以“海陆交汇”为理念，功能布局兼顾文物收藏保护的安全性和服务公众的开放性，提供了更好的公共文化服务，与周边的上海科技馆、东方艺术中心、上海图书馆东馆、世纪公园等文化设施形成集群效应，成为未来上海城市文化中心的重要组成部分。

Shanghai East Museum is the only one among the three new cultural facilities in Shanghai that was originally designed by a Chinese architect. As the world's top museum of ancient Chinese art, Shanghai East Museum will be a future-oriented oversized museum. Architectural design in order to "meet the land and sea" for the concept, function layout to two or morethings protection of cultural relics collection of the openness of the public security and service, provides a better public cultural services, and the surrounding of Shanghai science and technology museum, the Oriental art center, Shanghai and other cultural facilities, century park east library form a cluster effect, become an important part of Shanghai city cultural center in the future.