Tianjin Natural History Museum

Tianjin Natural History Museum has three floors, including permanent exhibition area, temporary exhibition area, experience and entertainment area and popular science education area. There are many exhibits in the museum. If you first enter the exhibition area, you can see a long scroll of life evolution. A pair of "mother and son" giant Shandong keel frames in the center of the hall immediately bring you into the situation of natural legend. On the left side of the hall is the living butterfly garden in the first museum in China. You can not only watch the colorful and flying living butterflies, but also observe from Caterpillars to beautiful butterflies In the process of metamorphosis, we can truly experience "eclosion into a butterfly".

What should not be missed is the exhibition hall on the third floor, which displays 300 precious specimens of wild animals in the world, such as the precious Chinese animal specimens such as Crested Ibis, giant panda, golden monkey and takin, which are known as the "four treasures of Qinling Mountains".

Tianjin Natural History Museum

Located in the Tianjin Cultural Center and the former Tianjin Museum, the new Tianjin Museum of natural history is the first natural history museum in China to display natural exploration, scientific experience and scientific education in a panoramic way with a single theme.

Tianjin Natural History Museum, formerly known as Beijiang Museum, was founded by French missionary sang Zhihua in 1914. It opened to the outside world in 1927. It was rebuilt as Tianjin People's Science Museum in 1952 and officially named Tianjin Natural Museum in 1957.

As of the end of 2014, Tianjin Museum of natural history covers an area of 50000 square meters, with a total construction area of 35000 square meters and a display area of 14000 square meters, including four parts: permanent exhibition area, temporary exhibition area, experience and entertainment area and popular science education area. There are 400000 biological specimens in the collection, including 1282 first-class and second-class treasures and 1452 type specimens.

The new museum of Tianjin nature museum takes "home" as the general theme, from outdoor "home · footprint" to the first floor "home · exploration", from the second floor "home · life" to the third floor "home · ecology", telling a story of "home" from ancient times to modern times, from the world to Tianjin. On October 11, 2018, he was selected into the list of "national primary and secondary students' research and practice education base".

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Historical evolution

In 1914, the Yellow River Baihe Museum, later known as the Beijiang Museum, was founded by Emile licent (1876-1952, Chinese Name: Sang Zhihua), a French priest and doctor of zoology.

After the founding of new China in 1949, Beijiang museum was managed by private Jingu University.

In September 1951, the Propaganda Department of Tianjin municipal Party committee took over the Beijiang Museum.

In June 1952, Tianjin Municipal People's Government approved the formation of the Preparatory Committee for Tianjin People's Science Museum on the basis of Beijiang Museum. In the same year, Tianjin People's science museum was established.

In June 1957, Tianjin People's science museum was renamed Tianjin Natural Museum.

In 1959, the exhibition and office address was moved to 272 Machang Road, Hexi District. Mr. Guo Moruo, then Vice Premier of the Chinese Academy of administration, director of the culture and Education Commission and President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, inscribed the name of the museum.

In August 1968, Tianjin History Museum, Tianjin Art Museum and Tianjin nature museum merged to form Tianjin Museum.

In December 1973, the establishment of museums was restored.

In January 1974, it was renamed Tianjin Museum of nature.

In 1997, the Tianjin municipal Party committee and government invested 100 million yuan to renovate the Tianjin Museum of nature. It was completed and opened to the public in 1998. It is one of the first batch of first-class museums in China.

In 2002, it won the title of "advanced collective of national cultural relic system".

In 2013, the reconstruction project of Tianjin nature museum was listed as one of the "20 popular projects in Tianjin".

In 2014, the reconstruction of Tianjin Museum of nature was completed and opened to the public. The new site is located in Tianjin Cultural Center and the former Tianjin Museum. With the theme of "homeland", the new museum is the first natural history museum in China to display natural exploration, scientific experience and scientific education in a panoramic way.

architectural composition

Located in Tianjin Cultural Center and the former Tianjin Museum, the new Museum covers an area of 50000 square meters, with a total construction area of 35000 square meters and a display area of 14000 square meters, including four parts: permanent exhibition area, temporary exhibition area, experience entertainment area and popular science education area. The core building has three floors with a total height of 16.9m.

In the design of the exhibition hall, its "circle" is the central exhibition hall, and its "square" is composed of nine basic exhibition halls. According to the functional requirements of the exhibition, the central exhibition hall is placed in the leading position of the building, and the circular sequence hall arranged according to the terrain leads the audience to the central exhibition hall naturally. The circular central exhibition hall with a diameter of 32m mainly displays dinosaurs, Yellow River elephants and other large animal fossils.

The appearance design of the exhibition hall also takes "square" and "circle" as the motif of composition. The center exhibition hall adopts the kissing shape of milky white metal shell and glass hemisphere to form the architectural appearance of "Seashell with beads", implying the creative concept of human facing nature, returning to nature and returning to nature, and reflecting the development level of modern architectural technology. The granite relief wall with a length of 30 meters and a height of 3 meters is used as the base of the lower part of the glass ball hall, which is in sharp contrast with the crystal glass hemisphere. It organically combines the shape with the function of the central exhibition hall, and has a strong sense of sculpture and symbolism.

Collection specimens

Man eating shark

Also known as the great white shark. It has a fierce temperament and swims fast. Cephalopods, fish, sea lions and seals are the main food. And in the course of its observation, it was found that there were records of attacks and cannibalism by human eating sharks. The shark is found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters.

Car dumper

Also known as molas. It is a large tropical marine fish in the world. It is clumsy and not good at swimming. When the weather is clear and the sun is full, it floats on the water, exposing its back and dorsal fin to bask in the sun. Its reproductive capacity is particularly strong. It can lay 300 million eggs at a time, but its survival rate is not very high.

Manta ray

This manta ray specimen is collected in the East China Sea, and its wingspan is the largest in China. It's a manta ray. It belongs to warm water pelagic fish. Changli uses its unique large fins to swing up and down slowly like spreading wings, sometimes jumping out of the water. It feeds on plankton and small fish. Distributed in tropical and temperate waters.

Basking shark

Also known as mouse shark. The length of this specimen is the largest in China. Basking sharks belong to pelagic fishes. It is gentle and slow. It is the second largest filter feeding shark after whale shark. Its body length can reach more than 10 meters. It is widely distributed in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and southeast coastal waters of China.

Exhibition hall introduction

Life exhibition area

The second floor, with an area of 5700 square meters, is composed of "ancient homeland" and "modern homeland". It adopts the theme unit display mode of combining ancient and modern, displaying nearly 10000 pieces of paleontological fossils, rocks, minerals and living plant specimens.

Relying on the new view of the earth and the latest scientific research achievements, it shows the earth home's 3.8 billion year history of the occurrence and development of the life world from inorganic to organic, from single cell to multi cell, from simple to complex, from low to high, and even to the present magnificent and UPS and downs.

The exhibition is divided into eight units:

Ecological Exhibition Area

The exhibition area of home ecology is 3400 square meters. Based on more than 200 rare World Wildlife specimens donated by Kenneth Bailin, a famous american philanthropist and honorary citizen of Tianjin city over the years, the collection of some rare wildlife specimens, such as giant panda and golden monkey, will be increased to show the typical animal groups of all continents in the world.

In the design concept, the exhibition area of "homeland · ecology" highlights the ecosystem, and in the form, it shows the diversity of the ecosystem with a big landscape and big hand. Each continent's fauna is composed of several landscapes, each landscape is displayed in different scenes, and each scene is represented by a typical story of animal life. The most representative wild animals and their ecological environment in the world are accurately and scientifically reproduced in front of the audience by using artificial landscape and background painting, combined with various modern display means, to vividly show the real scene of animal life. The exhibition is rich in content and various in forms, including display boards, multi-media and interactive settings, which improves the audience's desire for exploration. In order to achieve the purpose of Mr. Bailin's donation: "let the children who don't have the opportunity to visit these places feel personally through visiting our exhibition.".

The exhibition mainly includes the following parts:

Main responsibilities

With the theme of "homeland", Tianjin Natural History Museum is the first natural history museum in China to display natural exploration, scientific experience and scientific education in a panoramic way.

Organization setup

Tianjin Museum of natural history has 12 management departments, including party affairs administration office, personnel department, finance department, security administration department, arts and Technology Department, science popularization and education department, information department, Animal Department, plant Department, paleontology department, exhibition department and business service department

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