Beijing Museum of Natural History

Beijing Museum of Natural History exterior

Beijing Museum of Natural History is located in the capital of South City central axis of the bridge area, backed by the world's cultural heritage, Beijing Temple of Heaven Park, the face of modern bridges theater, has a special cultural environment. Her predecessor was established in April 1951 the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum of Natural History, 1962 Museum of Natural History was formally named for Beijing.

Beijing Museum of Natural History is the new China has relied on its own strength to build the first large-scale natural history museums, is mainly engaged in paleontology, animals, plants and the fields of anthropology specimen collection, scientific research and science popularization work. Library Cengxianhoupi Central Propaganda Department and the Beijing municipal government named the "National Youth Science and Technology Education Base" and "patriotic education base in Beijing," China's organizing committee has been named UNESCO's "Science and peace education base" . Since 1995, has been continuously awarded "Advanced Unit of Beijing spiritual"; in 1996, was named "national advanced science working group" and "Advanced Unit of Beijing youth education bases"; in 1996 and 1998 was named "Beijing science and technology popularization of advanced units."



Beijing Natural History Museum covers an area of 12,000 square meters, construction area of 24,000 square meters exhibition area of 8,000 square meters. Mr. Tian Jiabing by the Hong Kong industrialist, and the Beijing municipal government jointly invested 5 million yuan to build the specimens floor - "Tin Ka Ping flat", with a total area of 3600 square meters, is the largest of its kind museum, best-equipped, full-functioning , the maximum value of the specimen centers, completed and opened in 1992.



Beijing Natural History Museum's collection of more than 20 million specimens, including a considerable number of countries, second-class protected species of plant specimens, also has a number of type specimens, as well as rare specimens of special significance, and many specimens in the domestic and international can be termed isolated products, including the world-famous ancient Yellow River like a skull fossil, the giant 26-meter long co-chuan, MA Mun river dragon, the world's three towers, one of the earliest birds, birds in China, as well as complete the entire nest of fossilized dinosaur eggs. The museum also collects all the friendly people of the world presented to our national leaders, part of the gift samples, such as the Comoros President, Comrade Jiang Zemin's visit to China, presented to the precious Ladi Mai fish (Latimeria chalumnae) specimens of the early years, the Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh Comrade Mao Zedong gave the Asian elephant specimens, Comrade Zhu De transferred to other kinds of gifts of specimens, specimen. The more valuable the National Museum of Canterbury of New Zealand presented moa skeletons in our country, this huge bird on the planet had been in 1885 on the extinction of our planet, but this specimen is kept in our sole moa specimens.



Beijing Natural History Museum of the four existing major capital Display: paleontology display (the Office of the ancient reptiles, ancient mammal hall, biological origin and early evolution of the Office of the prosperity of the Office of invertebrates), plants display (green home offices), animal display ( animals - the friend of mankind hall, the secret animal Hall), human display (people of the origin of Hall). The four exhibition of life on Earth to build a panorama of the occurrence and development and to the main line of biological evolution, biological diversity, as the main display the contents of universal life science knowledge to the audience. The museum also has several thematic exhibition hall, such as "the human body is beautiful", "Aquatic Center", "Dinosaur World" and so on, and in accordance with psychological characteristics of young people to open an interactive exploration of new natural mysteries of science education venues -- - explore the corner. Meanwhile, the museum will launch an annual number of temporary exhibitions feature a variety of temporary exhibitions, a greater impact, including the "prenatal and postnatal care," "Man and the Biosphere", "The natural beauty", "body is beautiful," and for 12 years launch of the "Lunar New Year Animals" exhibition, in which puberty Education Exhibition "Boys and Girls" exhibition by the Beijing Construction Committee of spiritual civilization as a "Best of Capital Spiritual Civilization Construction" award and "Best Creative Capital Spiritual Civilization Construction" award. At present the museum year round also maintains an outstanding 1-2 exhibition tour around the country on display. In recent years, Beijing Natural History Museum of professional exhibitions abroad on many occasions, such as "Chinese Dinosaur Exhibition" has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Finland, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries and regions show out. Beginning in 1977, it has been the introduction of "The Australian unique animals," France "of Natural History," Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, Taiwan's "whale tale" and other exhibitions, in 1997 jointly with the Hong Kong Ocean Park held "baiji," exhibition.



Beijing Museum of Natural History is also an exhibition with strong design, planning ability has helped a number of provinces and autonomous regions to establish national museum, such as Beijing Liao and Jin City Wall Museum and the Oriental Plaza in Wangfujing, the ancient ruins of human culture museum, Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden Museum of Paleontology Jilin's Changbai Mountains Natural History Museum, Museum of Natural History Wuyi Mountain in Fujian, Guangxi Liuzhou's White Lotus Cave Museum, Museum of Geology and Mineral Resources of Heilongjiang, Hubei, Wuhan Geological Museum, Nanjing Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Paleontology Sanya, Hainan Province, of which the design for the Turpan Turpan, Xinjiang production and construction giant rhinoceros fossil museum, is established in Northwest China's first Museum of Natural History.

Beijing Museum of Natural History has a rigorous scientific approach, dynamic research team. In 1986, to the museum ecological research as the foundation, established in Beijing's Daxing son of the South China Sea Experiment Center elk study the ecology of the elk population of the success of the introduction of the UK, that is today's "Moose Research Center." Since the nineties into the twentieth century, the Beijing Museum of Natural History more than 20 research projects completed each year, of which 1992 -1,997 years, the whole museum undertook the National Natural Science Foundation research projects 6, Beijing Natural Science Fund Project 3, Beijing Institute of Science and Technology Program Fund a bud, there are four middle-aged scientists, appeared in the "cross-century talents Beijing project." 1977 and 1978, the Beijing Natural History Museum has participated in the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, Chinese Academy of Tuomuer Joint Scientific Expedition, Shao-Xing research librarians participate in the "Tianshan region Tuomuer higher plants, fauna survey" by Chinese Academy of Sciences second prize of significant scientific research; Zhen Shuo-South research librarians and others, "Chinese Dinosaur Footprints," the completion of dinosaur footprints on China's pioneering research; Wang Shaofang Research Librarian of the "Xiang in the Late Carboniferous paleoecology of benthic animals and Community research "points by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award for second and third; Li Jianjun Research Librarian of the" footprints of birds in the Antarctic Peninsula, Fernandez research "paper income of China's fourth Antarctic expedition Papers, Chinese Academy of Sciences of the project was in 1997 Natural Science Award. Huang Jinsong, deputy research librarians participate in the "Floristic Study of North China" by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998 research and third prize; Library has also completed commissioned by the National Science and Technology Commission, "National Museum of Natural Science on the establishment of a feasibility study" project.

Beijing Museum of Natural History and abroad has also undertaken a number of joint research projects, such as the Association and the United States to explore the Earth's Tongxin County paleontological study of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in cooperation with the United States New Mexico Museum of Natural History in Yunnan Lu Feng Jurassic mammal-like reptiles under study and Yangsi understanding research librarians and German Museum of Natural History at Fort St. willing co-operation crab research; Raocheng just research librarians and scholars in the United States has worked with the U.S. "Science" magazine, co-published "Early bird flying and climbing grip: From the Lower Cretaceous of China The new fossil evidence of the region, "papers. 1994 Beijing Natural History Museum and Liuzhou Cave Museum, co-sponsored "China's ancient and prehistoric cultural origins of human relations," International Symposium. Museum of Natural Science Association of China held in 1993, "Museum of Natural Science and the Environment" International Symposium. Museum's scientists had also been elected to the International Quaternary Congress of the Chinese President and Secretary-General of the World Ornithological Society.

For decades, Beijing Museum of Natural History has some representative published research monographs and popular science books, such as Zhen Su Nam Fellow "Chinese Dinosaur Footprints," a researcher Kan Cai "Beijing birds Zhi", Wang Hongyuan researchers "Beijing fish Chi, "Liu Kong researchers and others to co-author of" China Zhi butterflies "and" Mao's China Objective To study the birds eat "and so on. Museum experts also directly involved in the "Encyclopedia of China", "Flora of China" and other monographs work of codification. Prepared by museum experts, the collective popular science books, "Bio-Stuttgart, said," published in 1982 by science, popular readers welcome; Zhou Xing fellow "man's origin," was awarded the National Excellent popular science books; 1996 and other key researchers large-scale popular science books written by "the Age of Dinosaurs," a book, and been as good books to readers. Science writer Tang Xiyang of the book "Global Green Line," a book, readers expressed strong opinions. Zhou Zhen Xing Plastic South China Popular Science Writers Association has been awarded a researcher outstanding achievements in the title of popular science writers.

Beijing within the Beijing Museum of Natural History Society and other animal studies (PCB) will also use as a holiday camp and the biology teacher organized various training courses and other activities, such as the 9 th Beijing has organized a competition in primary and secondary biological knowledge, bio-science lecture and the planning of summer camps and "Small hands holding big hands into the Museum of Natural History."

Beijing Natural History Museum of professional academic journals, "Beijing Museum of study" founded in 1979, have been published 60, and with dozens of countries and regions in the world of professional research institutions have maintained the relationship between information exchange. In February 2005 "Beijing Museum of Natural History research report" to "natural science and museum studies", by the Beijing Natural History Museum, Museum of Science and Technology of China, China Geological Museum and the Beijing Planetarium co-sponsored. Museum of Natural Science Museum and the Chinese Association, the China Wildlife Conservation Association co-sponsored by the popular science journal "Nature" magazine founded in 1979, the current annual release four thousand copies in 1997 by the Chinese Association for Science as an excellent journal.