Nandu News Reporter Huang Hailin From May 18, the exhibition hall of Huizhou Sperm Whale Theme Pavilion was reopened to the public, adding more than 600 square meters of science popularization corridor. Citizens can make real-name reservations through the WeChat public account or telephone of the "Huizhou Fishery Research and Promotion Center" without purchasing tickets.
It is reported that huizhou sperm whale theme museum is Huizhou science education base, located in Huizhou Dongjiang high-tech industrial park Xing'an Road No. 1. This is the first sperm whale theme museum and the first large-scale herbarium of aquatic organisms in Huizhou, and since its opening in 2019, it has received the attention and praise of many citizens. Due to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, the museum was closed in January last year and expanded at the same time.
"In order to give back to the general public, we have expanded the exhibition hall during the epidemic and have completed the construction of more than 600 square meters of marine ecological culture corridor." Wang Huan, deputy director of the Huizhou Fishery Research and Extension Center, introduced to nandu reporters that since the opening of the museum in 2019, the number of people visiting the Huizhou Sperm Whale Theme Museum has reached more than 30,000 person-times, mostly for groups. In the later stage, the center will adjust the opening hours at the right time according to the visiting reservation situation to meet the needs of the public as much as possible. At the same time, we will increase efforts to prepare for the construction of the aquatic biology museum and further improve the scientific popularization role of the exhibition hall. At present, the aquatic biology museum on the second floor is being prepared, with an area of about 1,000 square meters, which mainly displays some aquatic organisms in the Huizhou sea area and the Dongjiang River Basin, as well as some modern fishery technology and fishery culture.
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The story behind the sperm whale theme pavilion
From March 12 to 15, 2017, a 10.78-metre-long, 14.18-tonne sperm whale stumbled into the waters of Daya Bay and ran aground with a formed fetus in its womb.
At that time, the unfortunate encounter of sperm whales touched the hearts of the public, and the government experts and people of Huishen, Shenzhen and Hong Kong quickly threw themselves into the rescue, and they worked closely together to carry out a "government-led, expert-led, socially participatory" sperm whale emergency rescue operation, but the sperm whale unfortunately died.
In order to give full play to the highest value of the life of this sperm whale, and in order to better commemorate this sperm whale, the Huizhou Fishery Research and Promotion Center, a public institution under the Huizhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, together with experts and scholars from Sun Yat-sen University and Xiamen University, has carried out scientific research and popular science research on the sperm whale, and the research and production results will be displayed to the public.
In 2019, this sperm whale that everyone misses is "back". Huizhou Sperm Whale Theme Museum and Science Popularization Education Base was officially opened, including the sperm whale posture specimen, skeletal specimen, as well as various organ specimens and models, restoring the fetus that has been formed in its abdomen.
Sperm whale fetal model
Huizhou Sperm Whale Museum design, decoration, specimen production, exhibition, related research and other total investment of 7 million yuan, took two years to complete the construction, the exhibition hall has four exhibition halls, step by step to tell the story of sperm whales and other cetaceans.
Relevant experts believe that while the economy is developing at a high speed, environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, especially the water environment and water ecology problems are becoming more and more prominent, coupled with the construction of various water conservancy facilities and the threat of alien aquatic invasive species, fish ecosystems have become increasingly fragile, aquatic animal species are decreasing year by year, and it is urgent to improve the public's awareness of environmental protection, especially water environmental protection.
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During the epidemic prevention and control period, in order to ensure the effect and quality of public visits, the Huizhou Fishery Research and Promotion Center issued an announcement reminder:
Pay attention to the WeChat public account of Huizhou Fishery Research and Promotion Center to make an appointment
2. Persons with a history of living in medium- and high-risk areas must hold a negative nucleic acid test certificate 7 days before arriving at the destination or be able to present a health pass code "green code" containing negative nucleic acid test information when entering the museum. Overseas visitors can obtain and present the epidemic prevention health information code through the "Epidemic Prevention Health Information Code Entry Personnel Edition" of the national government service platform, and the query result is "no abnormality" and there is no travel history in the medium and high-risk areas in the past 14 days (the itinerary record needs to be presented), and the real-name registration can only enter the museum.
3. Open every Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 14:00-16:00 p.m. (opening hours on statutory holidays are announced separately, and group telephone reservations are accepted at other times).
Address: Huizhou Fishery Research and Extension Center (400 meters south of the intersection of Dongxin Avenue and Xingping East Road, Huicheng District, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, 300 meters east of the north of the road); Tel: 0752-2267089