Guangdong Science Center

Asia's largest science education base

Guangdong Science Center

Guangdong Science Center

It is a non-profit social public welfare institution with the theme of "nature, human, science and civilization". It is a social science and technology activity place to provide popular science education for the public. It is a demonstration scenic spot for popular science tourism and leisure. The construction of Guangdong Science Center cost 1.9 billion yuan and took nearly five years. It was completed and opened on September 26, 2008.

Located in Guangzhou University City, Guangdong Science Center is a large-scale comprehensive science popularization venue for Guangdong Province to implement the strategy of invigorating Guangdong through science and education and the strategy of strengthening Guangdong through talents, and to improve the scientific and cultural literacy of the whole people. Guangdong Science Center has four functions: science popularization education, science and technology achievements display, international academic exchange and science popularization tourism. It is one of the largest science popularization education bases in China and even in Asia. It is a representative project of green building in China, an important window of science and technology achievements display in Guangdong Province and a city card of Guangzhou.

Guangdong Science Center covers an area of 450000 square meters and a building area of 140700 square meters. The museum has 12 permanent theme pavilions, more than 510 sets of exhibits, 5 Science and technology Cinemas (IMAX giant screen cinema, 4D cinema, 3D cinema, ball screen cinema, virtual navigation dynamic cinema), and an outdoor science exploration park integrating nature, technology and art. It has 80000 square meters of ecological lake, more than 2000 Lingnan Characteristic plants and dozens of outdoor exhibitions.

Guangdong Science Center has won nearly 100 honorary titles such as "national science popularization education base", "national AAAA tourist attraction", "national advanced group of science popularization education", "Guangdong science popularization education base", "International Creative Science Communication Award", "International Creative Science Exhibition Award", etc.; it has successfully held the annual meeting of Asia Pacific Science Center Association (ASPAC) and the National Youth Science and technology innovation competition And other large-scale activities, including Xiaoguwei Science Forum, Pearl River Science Lecture Hall, scientific research camp, creative robot training camp and other popular science activities.

The first batch of national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education bases.

Construction process

After the reform and opening up, the large-scale science and technology venues in Guangdong Province are basically blank.

In 1996, Guangdong Province decided to build a large-scale comprehensive science activity site and a modern science center.

In 1997, the people's Government of Guangdong Province officially approved the establishment of Guangdong Science Center. The project is constructed by the Provincial Department of science and technology, and the specific construction work is undertaken by the Preparatory Office of Guangdong Science Center. A leading group for the construction of Guangdong Science Center project has been set up. Guangdong Science Center has carried out two rounds of international invited architectural design competitions to obtain the most suitable architectural design scheme. Zhongnan Architectural Design Institute's "kapok shaped scientific and technological aircraft carrier" scheme was selected as the architectural design implementation scheme of Guangdong Science Center.

On March 28, 2004, the foundation laying ceremony of Guangdong Science Center was held.

The construction work will be completed in 2008.

architectural composition

There are eight theme pavilions on the 2F floor of Guangdong Science Center, which are "people and health", "flying dream", "children's world", "transportation world", "digital world", "green home", "perception and thinking" and "experiment and discovery". The building area of Guangdong Science Center is 60000 square meters. Guangdong Science Center has four science and technology cinemas, namely giant screen cinema, ball screen cinema, dynamic cinema and 4D cinema. There are two open laboratories and a 2500 square meter "digital home experience hall". In addition, there is a temporary exhibition area of 20000 square meters, which is used to display the latest scientific and technological achievements at home and abroad at any time. Guangdong Science Center has more than 400 exhibitions.

In the open-air square at the entrance of Guangdong Science Center, you can see two huge arms swinging, happily welcoming tourists. These two large rotating arms are respectively built on two adjacent towers, each arm "grasps" an LED display at one end and "grasps" a balance object at the other end. Their trajectory is actually a symbol of "infinity", like a lying number "8". There is also an interesting "secret" in these two magic arms. When the disks on the two rotating arms cross each other, the LED display image on them will be "transformed".

geographical position

Guangdong Science Center is located in Xiaoguwei Island, Guangzhou University Town. It faces the river in the South and North, the riverside ecological park in the west, the outer ring road of Guangzhou University Town in the East, and the main entrance is facing Guangzhou University.

Architectural concept

The building of Guangdong Science Center adheres to the concept of "green building", pays attention to the application of energy-saving technology, and takes a number of energy-saving measures in ventilation system design, building envelope, air-conditioning system, renewable energy utilization, etc.

In particular, the concept of "science center" needs more diversified forms to reflect the sense of the times and science and technology. On the basis of emphasizing the eternal and infinite logo image, with the development of multiple occasions and media, the design of extended application emphasizes the trend of dynamic, vitality and development more prominently - under the unified standard core, the uncertainty and freedom of "changing at any time" can be fully displayed, so as to extend the concept of "infinite" of the overall logo image. In the decomposition of performance, the logo in an abstract form means water waves, green leaves, birds Through the expression of these realistic forms and objects, the abstract ideas of nature, ecology and life are conveyed.

Pavilion value

Academic value

Guangdong Science Center has a special academic exchange area, and the scientists club will regularly invite famous scientists to carry out academic research and exchange activities.

For example, on May 22, 2013, Li Nan, vice president of School of computer science, University of national defense science and technology, deputy commander in chief of Tianhe No.2 project, and spokesman of Tianhe supercomputer system, was invited to give the sixth issue of "Pearl River Science Lecture" jointly sponsored by Guangzhou Bureau of science and technology, Yangcheng Evening News, and Guangdong Science Center Thinking about the development of supercomputing in Guangzhou.

educational value

Guangdong Science Center has four functions: science popularization education, scientific and technological achievements display, academic exchange and leisure tourism. It is a public welfare science popularization education base in Guangdong Province. The exhibits adopt a variety of high and new technologies, and organically integrate science, knowledge and interest. Tourists can obtain scientific and technological knowledge through hands-on participation and personal experience.

Social evaluation

In 2019, it was rated as the top 10 of "ranking of tourism consumption brands in Guangzhou Panyu in 2019" released by iimedia ranking.

Exhibition area distribution

Around the main building of Guangdong Science Center, in addition to the water themed exhibition area - 80000 square meters of artificial lake, there is also a large outdoor exhibition area - Science square, where there are 63 large-scale exhibition items, such as giant lever, human corona, echo tube and microphone, Panpipe, slate piano and wood piano. All 63 items on the square will be open to the public free of charge.

Guangdong Science Center has a special academic exchange area, which has a fully functional conference hall, academic lecture hall and information center. Popular science tourism and leisure function. There are restaurants with an area of about 2000 square meters, and shopping malls with an area of about 700 square meters. There are souvenirs, small display models, popular science books and audio-visual products with the characteristics of Guangdong Science Center.

Symbol meaning

The logo designed by Yan Jun takes the meaning of "water", points out the regional and humanistic characteristics of Guangdong Science Center, integrates and interacts with the environment at the same time, and implies the origin of life and wisdom; the free and flexible form extends the core concepts of "keeping balance and moving forever" and "unlimited development", and interprets the architectural features of "eye of discovery" and "five museums standing side by side" with imagery graphics.

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Main exhibition hall

Children's world

Children's world is located on the 2F floor of Guangdong Science Center. "Children's world" theme museum is mainly for children under 12 years old. According to the characteristics of children of this age and relevant educational theories, starting from children's experience, observation perspective and cognitive development rules, children can understand the simple scientific knowledge related to daily life and the surrounding world through interactive games, role play, situational experience, scientific inquiry and other colorful forms So as to enrich children's childhood life experience and feelings, make them keep curiosity, stimulate imagination and creativity, arouse interest in learning and desire to explore. The museum is divided into four areas: "my home and residential area", "my city", "my world" and "my studio", with a total of 48 exhibitions. Among them, interactive and experiential exhibitions such as human playground, supermarket, enlightenment theater, home safety exercise and traffic school are very popular. They can let children understand some daily health knowledge and business experience in participating in the experience Knowledge of training, safe escape and safe driving, etc.

"My home and residential area" starts from daily life. It enables children to feel the things around them in games and hands-on operations, experience the science in life, and arouse their desire to explore the mysteries, so as to understand and initially form the science

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