The Chengdu Natural History Museum in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, has opened to the public, becoming the largest geoscience museum of nature in western regions of China.
China Railway Construction Engineering Group, a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited, was responsible for construction of the museum.
Construction of the museum started in March 2019 and passed inspection in June 2022.
With a total construction area of 50,520 square meters, the museum has an exhibition area of 17,005 square meters.
A view of an exhibition area of the Chengdu Natural History Museum [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Focusing on getting to know the Earth and exploring the mystery of nature, the museum includes six permanent exhibition halls and two temporary exhibition halls, as well as supporting exhibition and education facilities such as academic lecture halls, a four-dimensional cinema, video halls with circular screens, and a research and study center.
The museum owns nearly 70,000 specimens of minerals, rocks, precious stones, and paleontological relics, as well as living plants and animals, and about 10,000 exhibits, which include precious exhibits such as the Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis fossil, the Dazhu Chungkin-gichthys fossil, and the Longchang iron meteorite.
The museum has one floor underground and four above-ground. Three-dimensional printing technology was used during construction to realize the complicated large-span-shaped irregular building structure.
The exterior curtain wall of the museum is about 48,900 square meters. The natural granite on the exterior curtain wall was decorated with curved holes in which lights are installed, making the museum look like a snow mountain during the day and a starry sky in the evening.
The first irregular-shaped public building in Chengdu, the Chengdu Natural History Museum was jointly initiated by the Chengdu government and Chengdu University of Technology. It is a key project of the region.
The museum will provide local people with an exploratory public cultural space full of fun, experience and enjoyment.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
