National Museum of marine life

The National Museum of marine life is located at the foot of Guishan mountain in the northwest of Kenting National Park. It is a large-scale museum with the theme of marine life.

There are three exhibition halls in the Museum: Taiwan waters hall, coral kingdom hall and world waters hall. The wavy roofs of the buildings, together with the mountain and sea scenery, represent the spirit of water. They are hung on the 21 meter high hall, symbolizing the marine biological model leading the people to the sea, which makes the museum full of strong marine flavor. The undersea tunnel allows visitors to travel freely through the artificial ocean landscape.

If you have plenty of time, you can also have a night stay at the marine health center and enjoy the unique experience of sleeping with dolphins and penguins.

Taiwan Museum of Marine Biology

synonym

The National Museum of marine life generally refers to the Taiwan Museum of marine life

Taiwan Museum of marine life, or Haisheng Museum for short, is located in Checheng Town, Pingtung County, Taiwan, China. It is located in the coastal area at the foot of Guishan mountain in the northwest corner of Kenting park. It is a large-scale museum with the theme of marine life. Covering an area of 96.81 hectares, the museum was established in 1991 and opened on February 25, 2000. His public works construction won the first prize of "2000 national engineering outstanding project award" issued by the American Association of engineering consultants.

Development history

In 1991, the Preparatory Office of the Taiwan Museum of marine life was officially established. On February 25, 2000, the "Taiwan waters Pavilion" officially opened.

In July 2000, the Department of aquarium was entrusted by Seaview world Enterprise Co., Ltd. to be responsible for the operation and management of the aquarium, creating the first cooperation case of outsourcing operation and professional division in Taiwan's social education units.

In 2005, the Institute of marine biotechnology and the Institute of marine biodiversity and evolution were jointly established by Donghua University and the museum.

Venue features

The Taiwan Museum of marine biology is divided into three exhibition halls: Taiwan waters hall, coral kingdom hall and world waters hall. Special exhibitions are held regularly in the special exhibition area. There are two hydrophilic plazas on the entrance welcome square to provide visitors with recreation and recreation.

"Coral kingdom Pavilion" features living coral exhibition and undersea tunnel. The cross harbour tunnel, about 81 meters long, is the longest Cross Harbour Tunnel in Asia at present (in 2005).

The "Taiwan waters Pavilion" features the ocean pond, with its acrylic viewing window 16.5 meters wide and 4.85 meters high. The glass beside the pond is about 33 cm thick, and it feeds three tailed whale sharks.

"World Water Museum" was completed and opened on April 28, 2006, including four exhibition areas: ancient ocean, seaweed forest, deep sea waters and polar waters. In addition to the traditional aquarium display of seaweed forest, the electronic ecological aquarium display is the first to present the ancient ocean, deep sea, polar and other ecological environment by means of virtual reality.

architectural composition

Whale water Plaza

At the entrance of the whale parent-child hydrophilic Plaza, sperm whales and humpback whales cast in actual proportion will regularly spray out water column, which is very lifelike. It always makes every tourist's eyes shine and go into the water.

hall

Enter the grand glass door and lift the hall 21 meters high. Suspended from the ceiling are lifelike models of whale shark, octopus, stingray and killer whale. The layout is refreshing, as if you are in the bustling underwater world. The five story artificial waterfall is magnificent, injecting a cool underwater atmosphere into the museum. On the left and right sides of the hall are Taiwan waters Pavilion, coral kingdom Pavilion, special exhibition area, international conference hall, sea view restaurant and ocean gift shop.

Taiwan Water Museum

This paper simulates the ecological environment of Taiwan Island and its adjacent waters in a real-time way, from trickle to ocean, fresh water to ocean, including: entrance waterfall area, alpine streams, Riverside streams, reservoirs, middle reaches of rivers, estuaries, oyster culture, rocky intertidal zone, touch pool, children's balcony, coral reef Valley, Nanwan coral reef, fish exploration, ocean pool, water conservation world, etc Show the theme.

Coral kingdom Pavilion

Taking the colorful ecology of tropical coral reefs on the sea floor as the main exhibition axis, this paper shows the ecological resources of various kinds of stone and soft corals and the ecology of coral reef fish (commonly known as tropical fish) bred in the Taiwan sea area. Taking a sunken ship as the theme of the museum, the 84 meter long undersea tunnel is like diving into the sea to search for treasure and watch the things in the sunken ship. Dozens of living corals and more than 200 kinds of color fish, colorful coral reef fish shuttle back and forth around the tourists and giant coral reefs. People can't help but forget to enjoy the magnificent coral reef world.

Practical information

Opening Hours

It's open throughout the year. The operating hours of April to November in summer, January to march in winter, and December are different from the lunar new year.

Address: No.2 Houwan Road, Houwan village, Checheng Town, Pingtung County

Longitude: 120.69891066138

Latitude: 22.045996777501

Tel. + 886-8-8825678

Official website: http://www.nmmba.gov.tw/index.aspx

Tour time: half a day

Transportation information: Bus: take the orange line of Kenting streetcar and get off at the Marine Biology Museum Station

Ticket information: Haisheng hall ticket: adult ticket: NT $450 / person;

The cost of overnight stay in Haisheng Hall: NT $2380 / person for people aged 6 and above, NT $1090 / person for people aged 3-5, and free for people under 3 (very hot, need to book 1-2 months in advance)

Opening hours: Summer (April November): weekdays 9:00-18:00; holidays 9:00-18:00

(holidays include Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays); summer vacation (7 / 1-8 / 31) 8:00-18:00;

Winter (January, February, March and December): 9:00-17:00 on weekdays; 9:00-18:00 on holidays (including Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays);

During the Spring Festival: 8:00-17:00 on New Year's Eve; 8:00-18:00 from the first day to the seventh day (1 / 31-2 / 4)

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