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Scanning the skeleton model with its mobile phone, a fleshy Hechuan Mamenxi Dragon jumped on the screen, and it slowly walked out of the museum wall and into The Jurassic Nature.
The "resurrected" Hechuan Mamenxi Dragon. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Aiping
This precious fossil model of hechuan Mamenxi dragon was once the most prestigious landmark exhibit of the old museum of the Shanghai Museum of Natural History (Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Branch). After moving to the new building in 2015, it opened a gathering across time and space with more than 200 animal and plant specimens and models from different regions and periods in the "Long River of Life" exhibition area, as well as visitors strolling here.
"Walking on the trail, surrounded by all kinds of animals and plants, my heart is full of a sense of awe and belonging to nature." Audience member Li Jing said.
In the "Long River of Life" exhibition area, the audience and animal and plant specimens and models from different regions and periods open up a gathering across time and space. Courtesy of Shanghai Museum of Natural History
Introducing the latest technology, the science and education personnel exquisitely designed and arranged, more than 11,000 specimens and models displayed throughout the year in the Shanghai Museum of Natural History were "alive" and expounded the theme of "nature, people and harmony". Since the opening of the new museum in 2015, the Shanghai Museum of Natural History has been one of the most popular cultural and popular science venues in Shanghai. The latest statistics show that even due to the impact of the epidemic, the museum still received more than 1 million visitors last year, and audiences of different ages can find resonance.
The "Dinosaur Boom" exhibition group displays 15 dinosaur skeleton fossils and models of 14 species at home and abroad, and the "star" of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo - two Lufeng dragon fossil specimens "settled" here. In the Dinosaur Lab, the audience learns about how paleontologists have restored fossils and various research methods and achievements on dinosaurs.
"Qinling" display cabinet, 49 species of 102 representative animal specimens of Qinling, according to the altitude of their living areas are distributed on the woody tree system. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Aiping
The "Polar Exploration" theme area focuses on the ecosystems of the Antarctic, the Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau, the "third pole of the world". Specimens of emperor penguins, polar bears, reindeer and other animals combine graphics and video introductions to present the survival of animals and plants in extreme environments. It also houses specimens of hot spring snakes and alpine frogs that the late Fudan University professor Zhong Yang brought back and donated from Tibet.
In the "Into Africa" theme area, the shocking sound effects, changing lights, ultra-clear moving images and more than 200 lifelike animal specimens composed of multimedia shows make the audience feel as if they have become "a member of the savannah".
Spectators enjoy an immersive multimedia show in the "Into Africa" theme area. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Aiping
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"Not enough shopping in a whole day!" This is the feeling of many viewers.
The history of the Shanghai Museum of Natural History can be traced back to the Xujiahui Museum founded in 1868 and the Shanghai Museum of the Asian Literary Association established in 1874.
"Today, the Museum of Nature has a more important mission, that is, to stimulate the public's curiosity and curiosity, promote the spirit of science, and advocate the green values of respecting nature and loving nature." Wang Xiaoming, director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, said.
In recent years, the Shanghai Museum of Natural History has continuously "broken the wall" and "broken the circle". Entering the online museum page, visitors can access audio guides and the latest exhibition and teaching resources in all 10 permanent exhibition areas at their fingertips. Using real-time data transmission, remote connection, 5G live broadcast and other technologies, the audience can also visit the museum in the cloud.
During the epidemic period, more than 100 science popularization venues across the country jointly held an online "new crown pneumonia science knowledge prize contest activity", and the Shanghai Natural History Museum built a question bank and regularly analyzed the error-prone questions to convey the positive energy of the "epidemic". At the beginning of the new year, the museum launched the popular science game "Jigsaw Puzzle Bird Hunting Journey", and linked the exhibition items such as "Bird Classification Tree" in the museum, allowing children to gain knowledge in the game of answering questions.
The latest popular science game "Jigsaw Puzzle Bird Hunt". The picture shows a screenshot of the mobile phone
Exhibition and teaching resources and scientific research results are more widely disseminated and shared through the Internet, and how to retain offline audiences? The answer is to innovate the operating model and popular science display means to allow the audience to experience, participate and interact more deeply.
Immersive theaters such as "Mystery of origins", "Cambrian explosion of life", and "Escape from Cretaceous" that introduce the latest multimedia technologies have reproduced the great events of evolutionary history to the audience, and some museum original exhibitions and films have been exported overseas.
Based on the museum's latest scientific research achievements, the "Discovery Center" regularly launches interactive science popularization activities such as "Trilobite Difference" and "Interesting Fur". Among them, "fossil excavation" is the most popular project for children.
The "Shanghai Story" exhibition area has set up 11 sign language interpretation QR codes, which can be scanned to obtain sign language interpretation services. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Aiping
The museum also optimizes the "barrier-free nature tour" and develops sign language explanations in the "Shanghai Story" exhibition area and popular science film commentaries such as "Africa Show" and "Human Road", benefiting special groups such as hearing and language impairment and visual impairment.
"The public is here to relive the process of discovering science and thinking about the future direction of science, and the pursuit of science is endless." Wang Xiaoming said that the shanghai natural museum has left many "question marks" at many exhibition introductions, and issued invitations to the audience to cross time and space and break barriers for scientific exploration.
Text and video reporter: Chen Aiping
Editor: Jia Zhen