2018-09-08 07:31 | Zhejiang News Client | Reporter Yu Jiji Correspondent Yu Jingyi Photograph Friend Zhang Wentao Sun Jiewei
On September 7, a week after the start of the new semester, the students of Hangzhou Wenxin Primary School were excited: there was one more museum on campus! There are thousands of beautiful shells that have never been seen before.
This is the first "campus museum" launched by the China Wetland Museum, which takes the shell of biodiversity as the theme and the permanent "'Shell' - Shell Thematic Exhibition", exhibiting nearly 600 kinds of Rare Shell Specimens and more than 1,400 pieces of Chinese and foreign rare shellfish specimens.
Hangzhou students are no strangers to the second classroom, the major free open museums, art galleries, are good places to go on weekends, but the museum this "classroom" moved to the campus, after class can go to a visit, which is still the first in the province.
This "campus museum" has been preparing for the China Wetland Museum since last year, and on the morning of September 7, the Shell Museum was officially opened.
The museum has drawn professional staff from various departments such as exhibition exhibitions, wetland research, science education, and collection storage to set up a preparatory team, which is specifically responsible for following up the "Campus Museum" project, including experts in zoology, botany, museology and display design, and also hired the country's top experts in related fields to be responsible for checking. After 4 rounds of overturned adjustments, the theme of shells was finally determined.
Wenxin Primary School has set aside two classrooms and an entire roof for the construction of the Shell Museum.
Outside the classroom is a science popularization corridor, divided into basic, extended and outdoor chapters, composed of various shell-related interesting knowledge. Outdoor is a roof garden, using pictures and texts combined with flowers and plants to display plant science knowledge, such as wetland plant classification, Xixi wetland characteristic plants, magical plants know how much.
Because the exhibition hall is built on the primary school campus, the curator of the Wetland Museum abandons the traditional exhibition method for the public, and writes a childlike story as a "bean point treasure snail", and the shell protagonist takes the visitors to the exhibition, learn knowledge, and open their eyes.
Are shellfish meat-eating or vegetarian animals? How do they eat? How to live? Was the submarine invented from a shell? In the famous painting "The Birth of Venus", the goddess's foot is actually the cockle that we can eat. The exhibition was not only fascinated by the students, but also the teachers. More than a thousand shells are neatly stacked in the display cabinet, arranged according to different "families", the wetland museum specially prepared 2 pieces of each shell, one positive and one reverse display, each piece is marked with a serial number, corresponding to its own name. For example, there are the Hornfish like ivory, the turtle-like turtle, the white snail that is larger than the face, and the Venus bone snail like a fish bone.
Both pavilions are equipped with teaching equipment and tables and chairs, where children are encouraged to learn about natural sciences and do experiments themselves. At the end of the exhibition, there is a wall of "Come and ask" questions, "Why did you use shells for money in ancient times?" "Is a shell born with a shell?" "Can shells shine?" "Why can you hear the sound of the sea in the shells?" Not only can you write down your own questions, but you can also answer other people's questions.
In addition to the wonderful exhibition content, the wetland museum mission staff also combined with the actual teaching content of the school, planned the supporting shell and biodiversity science courses, which currently include five major sections of "First Understanding of Shells", "Shell Wonderful", "Shell Survival", "Shells and Humans" and "Shell Appreciation", which introduce in detail the biological knowledge of shells, the value of shells and other popular science content, including shell knowledge popularization and handmade activities interactive activities, develop campus museum extension content, expand textbook knowledge, and deliver popular science education into the campus.
Before the opening of the museum, Wenxin Primary School specially tutored a group of small missionaries, and the children will use their spare time to provide explanations and volunteer management of the Shell Museum. The school also encourages children to take this as an opportunity to independently innovate and participate in social services, and even develop their own squads and class meetings to become the school's "golden business card".
Shan Min, director of the China Wetland Museum, said that the shell museum cooperating with Wenxin Primary School is the first stop of the "campus museum", and in the future, this popular science network will be spread to the whole of Hangzhou, or even out of the province, and more schools will cooperate in depth to create a "campus museum" with different themes and form a unique "1 + X" pavilion model of the wetland museum.