Beijing Ocean Museum

The Beijing Aquarium is located in the Beijing Zoo. Tickets are sold separately from the zoo. It is the largest inland aquarium in the world. There are thousands of species and tens of thousands of marine animals in the aquarium. You can see all kinds of aquatic animals in different shapes. It is not only a good place to watch marine animals, but also a good place to take children to learn marine knowledge. There are also dolphin, sea lion and other marine animal performances in the museum, which are wonderful and romantic.

The aquarium is a huge conch shaped building with two floors. It is divided into seven areas: Rainforest wonder, amorous beach, Bering Town, national treasure Chinese sturgeon Pavilion, ocean tour, whale Bay and Ocean theater. After entering the aquarium, you can visit it one by one along the directions. It takes about 3 hours to visit the whole aquarium.

The entrance of the aquarium is on the south side of it. When you enter from the south side, you will see the rainforest wonder area. The rainforest wonder area is the epitome of a man-made Amazon jungle. Walking along the winding path, there are trees, rockeries and waterfalls on both sides. You can feel the rich tropical scenery. There are colorful fairy fish, African prince, red dragon and other tropical fish species on display. You can watch them one by one.

After passing through the rainforest area, you come to the amorous beach area, where you can listen to the sound of the tide and watch the marine animals in various shallow water areas. You can also touch the big turtle here to interact with the animals. There is also a touch pool, which can touch many kinds of mollusks, such as starfish and anemones. It's very interesting.

Next to the amorous beach is the Bering town area, which is a small paradise for two polar belugas. You can see the lovely belugas in the water through the panoramic glass window, and you can also see the romantic picture of the breeder feeding the belugas and dancing with them.

In front of Bering town is the national treasure Chinese sturgeon Museum, where there are interesting science exhibition boards to help tourists understand the stories and life habits of Chinese sturgeon. There are many national treasures of Chinese sturgeon raised here. You can watch this rare fish nearby and see the scene of feeding Chinese sturgeon.

From the Chinese sturgeon Museum, the entrance of the underwater tour is here. Walking underwater along the tour route, you will pass through the South China Sea, the Western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and other separated areas. The species in each area are also different, with their own characteristics. A variety of fish swim overhead, you can enjoy the scenery, and the scene is very flexible Romance.

The main fish here are sea lions and dolphins. You can see the scenes of animals training and playing in the water, which makes people feel lovely and beautiful. After the animal training, you will perform in the Ocean theater.

Ocean Theatre is the last stop of the tour route and the largest ocean theatre in the world. It has wonderful performances every day. The intelligent and clever performances of dolphins, sea lions and other animals will make tourists laugh, and the soft lighting and animal dancing scenes are also very romantic. There are many performances every day. Please refer to the official website for the specific time: http://www.bj-sea.com/html/folder/560-1.htm

If you want to eat in the aquarium, there is a delicious Island fast food restaurant next to the Chinese sturgeon restaurant. In addition, there are shopping shops at the gates of Bering town and Ocean theater, and souvenirs of the Ocean Museum are also sold. However, the price of internal dining and shopping is relatively high, so it is recommended to go out for dining after playing.

Beijing Ocean Museum

Beijing Aquarium is located on the North Bank of Changhe River in Beijing Zoo, adjacent to Beijing exhibition hall, planetarium and Capital Gymnasium. It covers an area of 120000 square meters, with a construction area of 42000 square meters and a greening area of more than 80000 square meters. It is an inland aquarium integrating viewing, popular science education, entertainment and business exhibition.

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geographical position

Beijing Aquarium is located on the North Bank of Changhe River in Beijing Zoo, adjacent to Beijing exhibition hall.

To the east of Beijing Aquarium is zoo Road, surrounded by Beijing Zoo, Beijing exhibition hall, amorous beach, Yawan and other places.

Park scale

Beijing Aquarium covers an area of 120000 square meters, with a building area of 42000 square meters and a green area of more than 80000 square meters.

Beijing Ocean Museum is a large, modern and advanced science museum of marine biology. It is in the leading position at home and abroad in many aspects: the overall construction area is the largest, the floor area is the largest, and the total water volume is the largest; Beijing Aquarium is the first to create artificial seawater, and the seawater volume is quite large

. Beijing Aquarium has the world's advanced life support system, the use of artificial sea water, the total amount of water up to 18000 tons.

There are more than 1000 species and tens of thousands of marine fishes and organisms on display in the museum. Meanwhile, the biological collection is also the largest: the total number of fishes raised by benthic organisms is 30000-50000, including nearly 1000 species of marine ornamental fishes and freshwater ornamental fishes. Tens of thousands of ornamental fish have moved into the aquarium, and have fully adapted to the new environment here. In addition to fish watching, the Beijing Aquarium also has a powerful marine animal performance group, whose members include dolphins, whales, sea lions and other mammals.

The purpose of building the Museum

The purpose of Beijing Ocean Museum is to "benefit the public, educate students and maintain ecology".

Beijing Aquarium introduces the knowledge of aquatic organisms, tells the story of the sea and advocates environmental protection awareness through rich fish display, protection publicity of rare and endangered species, wonderful marine animal performance and various popular science activities. Among them, people can not only appreciate different kinds of marine life, but also experience the relationship between human beings and the ocean. During the tour, tourists not only get Tao Yi, but also benefit from it, which improves the consciousness of "caring for marine animals and protecting the earth's home".

2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac. The "dragon and fish culture exhibition" held by the Beijing Ocean Museum combines marine resources with traditional Chinese culture, improves the quality of marine resources display and the visiting environment, so that tourists can experience the magic dream of the marine world, advocate the concept of national environmental protection and science popularization interaction, and fulfill the corporate social responsibility.

Architectural modeling

The basic colors of the main building of Beijing Ocean Museum are blue and orange, which represent the endless vitality of the mysterious ocean and marine life.

The building of Beijing Ocean Museum is unique and magnificent, just like a big blue conch lying on the beach surrounded by green trees and flowers.

The shape of the venue adopts a unique "conch" shape, with blue and orange as the basic colors, representing the mysterious ocean and the endless vitality of marine life. Its interior design is also unique. The roofs are grid structure, and decorated with blue and yellow, presenting a blue world to people.

Landscape in the Museum

Composition of the park

Beijing Aquarium adopts a new concept of exhibition, leading people to understand the ocean from the shallow. There are seven exhibition areas with the theme of "rainforest wonder", "amorous Beach", "ocean tour", "Bering town", "national treasure Chinese sturgeon Museum", "whale bay" and "Ocean theater".

The exhibition area is composed of seven parts: Rainforest spectacle - simulating the tropical rainforest scenery in the Amazon basin.

Amorous Beach - an area where visitors can touch marine life in different forms with their own hands.

Bering town is an interactive area where the real display is compatible with the virtual scene, and the wharf and the town rely on each other.

National treasure Chinese sturgeon Pavilion - the longest acrylic integral exhibition window in the world, close to the Chinese sturgeon King's pavilion.

Underwater tour - experience global underwater travel and explore the ocean world (in May 2011, Beijing Aquarium launched a new exhibition area - "Coral Garden, jellyfish secret land").

Cetacean Bay: a venue for watching dolphins and sea lions.

Ocean Theatre - the largest of its kind in China, with more than 3000 seats, is the venue for dolphin performance and sea lion performance.

Rainforest wonders

Among them, there are winding paths, flying waterfalls, gurgling streams, mysterious statues, ancient bridges and the singing of insects and birds, which make visitors feel like they are in the mysterious virgin forest of Amazon. With the change of natural terrain, more than 20 display tanks of different sizes are cleverly inlaid in the middle of forest and rock cracks like scattered pearls. Rich tropical rainforest scenery, people linger.

Main exhibits: red tailed head protecting fish, koi, giant bone tongue fish, black fin marsupials, eel, water jet fish, fairy fish, pomfret, catfish, etc.

Touch pool

There are golden sunshine, white sand beaches and intertidal organisms living in shallow waters. The 48 meter long simulated coastline is full of vitality. Visitors can listen to the gentle waves and touch various marine mollusks with their hands. Children can experience the feeling of sea water and the fun of playing with big turtles when they enter the touch pool.

Main exhibits: Blue Crane, bread starfish, sand starfish, etc.

Ocean tour

Diving from the South China Sea, through the Western Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, red sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, the underwater visual effect of the tunnel is colorful, and the large arc acrylic display window lifts the mysterious veil of the sea. 37 exhibition tanks show visitors the earth

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