Dalian Natural History Museum
Dalian Natural History Museum, founded early in year 1907, is comperhensive museum displaying rare stones, fossils, animals, plants, etc. As the only natural history museum in the northeastern regions of China, it is also one of the top four natural history museums of China, and well known around the world.
Dalian Natural History Museum is situated on scenic Heishijiao Seashore, occupying an area of 15,000m2. The whole museum is laid out by world popular topic unit method, for example there are eleven exhibit halls that are respectively named the Earth, Dinosaur, Marine mammals, Fish, Wetland, and etc. Advanced display form, flexible exhibit design, application of various technologies of sound, optics and electron, plus manual operation display not only emphasize the focus of the whole museum on “Nature and Human”, but also reveal the diversification of species as well as mutual dependent relations between animal, man and environment. The exhibits in new Museum have successively been elected Top Ten Exhibit Selections, and awarded the first prize at city’s level for advance of science and technology.
Dalian Natural History Museum ranks the first in China for it’s a large number of rare specimens, especially the marine life. Over the past few years, it has collected more than 600 famous fossil organisms of Jehol Biota, and given visitors times of systematic introductions to the origin of bird, beast and angiosperm as well as so many major events in the history of life sciences, which found a strong echo in all visitors.
In addition, Dalian Natural History Museum gives great attention to communication with appropriate overseas institutions. For example, it has successively established good relationships with Kitakyusyu Natural History Museum of Japan, State Natural History Museum of France, and etc.
Shell Museum
The shell museum is something of a let down. There is a giant castle on top of a hill that you can see from Xinghai Plaza, so naturally we went and climbed up the bazillion stairs to the top. Once we got there, lo and behold, it’s a museum. It costs something like Y 30, but all that’s inside is a bunch of shells. I mean, it’s a shell museum so what do you expect, but still. The museum only takes up a small portion of the castle, and they don’t let you go anywhere else.
Dalian Modern Museum
The modern museum showcases all the aspects of Dalian as a city. There are some interesting exhibits, and there’s a fun science exhibit that’s supposed to be for children. Most of the captions and things are in Chinese though, so you can’t read a lot of it. It’s pretty close to the Natural History museum, so stop by if you have some time and Y 30.
Prehistoric Life Museum
This is the place to go for those interested in learning more about evolution and archeology. The educational journey offers visitors a chance to view prehistoric fossils from the Chengjiang and Yunnan Province. Also on display are some of the earliest flowers and fruits in the world. Some of the fossils include the Chinese dragon bird, Confucian bird, duckbill, Guizhou dinosaur, dinosaur eggs and rare fossils from abroad. Admission: CNY10.
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