Experts estimate 15 million yuan
Experts estimate 11 million yuan
Qingdao Shell Museum embarks on a magical journey of seafood and childlike fun
From the fossil nautilus from the Ordovician period 450 million years ago to the four famous snails that are more expensive than gold, from the chē qú with a diameter of more than 1 meter to the semi-veined dia snail with a diameter of only 1.8 mm... In an underground museum on the shores of Tangdao Bay, more than 4,260 kinds of strangely shaped and colorful shell specimens are displayed, and these specimens are "native" to more than 60 countries in the four oceans, forming a fantasy kingdom full of seafood and childlike fun. The museum is the result of 37 years of collection by a shell collector in Qingdao, ranking second in Asia and first in China. Since its opening, Qingdao Shell Museum has attracted a wave of shell lovers. Recently, the reporter walked into this fantasy world created by Qingdao people, and discovered new and interesting stories from shell specimens.
It's like entering the underwater world
Qingdao Shell Museum is located in Tangdaowan Pedestrian Street, No. 680 Lijiang Road, Qingdao West Coast New Area, which is backed by the sea and has beautiful scenery. The Shell Museum is located underground, and the entrance is decorated with carvings in the shape of conchs and shells, and the cool and transparent light inside makes people feel as if they have entered the underwater world. The museum has only one floor, and in the middle promenade there is a beach catwalk made of white sand and colorful shells. There are 7 halls on both sides of the promenade, each of which displays its own unique shell specimens.
In the exhibition hall, the docent uses a figurative metaphor to introduce the strange shells. For example, the Venus bone snail looks like a comb, which is said to have been used by the goddess Venus to comb long hair; the large thousand-handed snail is angular, like a warrior armed with armor; the thin beak snail has fine spines, as delicate as a bird's beak; the password snail wears black-brown spots, which at first glance think is a combination of Moore code... If visitors look at it for themselves, they will find that the shells are shaped in a variety of ways, like hedgehogs, like umbrellas, like cakes, like strawberries. According to the taxonomy, these shells are arranged by the original designers in rows and rows, or in the shape of beautiful patterns, and then under each shell is marked with a serial number, detailing the name of the shell, the type it belongs to, the place of origin and other information.
"I designed the museum myself, and then I and five workers followed the sketch and spent half a year renovating it to its current appearance." Geng Zhi, director of the museum, said proudly.
It began collecting 37 years ago
In the museum's fossil hall, more than 130 kinds of fossil shells that have been jadeized, such as nautilus fossils and ammonite snail fossils, are displayed, which are warm and smooth in texture and beautiful in texture. These fossils belong to species that predate dinosaurs, but most of them have long since disappeared into the process of biological evolution. Geng Zhi said that in the 1990s, they recovered a batch of precious shell fossils from Africa. Because they know more about geological landforms, they have long known that parts of Africa are rich in shell fossils. In the 1990s, these fossils suddenly appeared in large numbers in these areas, so everyone heard the wind and went to Africa. Geng Zhi introduced that the experience of large-scale dispatches to collect shells like this is not much in his collecting career.
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