The Museum of Natural Sciences
Add: No. 260 Yan'an Rd.(E) Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 63213548
Visiting Hours: 9:00-17:00
Box office open: 9:00--15:30 ; Closed on Monday
Public transport: Metro Line 2 at Nanjing Rd.(E) Station
The Museum of Natural Sciences under the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (the former body is Shanghai Museum of Natural History) was established in 1956. It moved to the current site at No. 260 Yan'an Rd.(E) in 1958. Guo Moruo, former president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, made superscription for it. Tan Jiazhen, an academician has served as the curator of the museum.
The museum has 3000 pieces of rare animals specimen in its 3000 square meters exhibiting halls, covering all the species. It is one of the biggest nature sciences museums of the country. There are halls for dinosaurs, paleontology history, palaeoanthropology history, ancient carcass, invertebrate, fish, amphibious animal, reptile, bird, mammal, public science education and gift shops.
With specimen as the convincing evidence, the museum aims to reveal the origin of the nature and its evolving rules, in an effort to popularize science knowledge.
Shanghai Railway Museum
Add: 200 Tianmu Rd.(E) Shanghai
Tel: +86 21 51221130, 51221575
Visiting Hours: 9:00 – 16:00 on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The railway is an important milestone during the evolution of the human civilization. Karl Marx once referred to it as the pioneer of modern industry. The railway in China, formally started itself from Wu Song Railway in 1876, has gone through an uneasy period in the old China. After the People's Republic of China has been founded, the railway is again controlled by the people. Since then, the new railway system has begun to develop itself quickly and healthily.
Based on the historical materials and objects as reference, the Railway Museum has demonstrated the development of the railway in Shanghai and East China during the past 100 and more years. By describing the past and present situation of the railway, the museum intends to let people know and be familiar with the railway, obtain some knowledge and concern about the railway.
Shanghai Geological Museum
Add: No.1 Huazhou Rd. Shanghai
Visiting Hours: 8:30-17:00
The Shanghai Geological Museum is located in the Lingkong Agriculture Garden. It is only 15 minutes drive from Pudong International Airport. It used to be called “The Back Garden of
Pudong International Airport". Furthermore, the museum is one of the "Ten Municipal Projects for Popular Education in 2004".
Established 10 years ago, the Museum has an area of 3,800 square meters. There is also a "Theme Park” in the garden.
A lot of wonderful mineral crystals, such as Calcite crystal, Quarts crystal and Fluorite crystal collected in the museum are shared with the public. The red gypsum crystal comes from an ore hole which is over 600 meters underground and 5 years of explosion. The intergrowth ore of calite and green fluorite weight up to 1.5 tons.
There is a huge wooden fossil tree discovered in Xinjiang, its intact trunks is 38 meters long and its girth is nearly 3.6 meters.
China Dairy Museum
Add: 467 Wanrong Road
Tel: +86 21 56658452
Admission: free
Visiting Hours: 9:00-16:30
Public transport: Metro line 1, Bus line 40, 46, 741, 253, 95
Website: www.dmchina.net
(currently closed because of snow disaster in Feb. 2008. Please check its website regarding its time of reopening)
The plan to build China Dairy Museum was presented by China Dairy Industry Association and China Dairy Cattle Association in 2000 and was invested by Bright Diary & Food. Opened In November 2001, the China Dairy Museum covers three big exhibition zones in the space of 1,000 square meters showing the development information of China dairy in each historical eras.
As one of the key municipal projects, the museum was enlarged with another 300 square meters, and the original area was also renovated. It will play a greater role in showing dairy culture. With the hi-tech, the Bright Diary & Food annotates a new concept of the dairy products.