Founded in 1916, Geological Museum of China has accumulated rich natural essence and intangible assets in the course of its synchronous development with China's modern science. It has been renowned for its excellent collection system, fruitful and exquisite display in Asian similar museums, and enjoys world-wide reputation.
The Museum collects more than 200000 geological specimens, covering all fields of Geosciences. Among them, there are dinosaur series fossils such as giant Shandong dragon and Chinese Dragon Bird, famous ancient human fossils such as Peking Man, Yuanmou Man and Upper Cave Man, as well as a large number of precious prehistoric biological fossils such as fish, birds and insects with scientific value and ornamental value; there are samples of Chinese characteristic minerals, such as the world's largest "Crystal King", giant calcite crystal cluster specimen of fluorite, exquisite blue copper mine, realgar, orpiment, scheelite and stibnite, as well as a large number of national treasures such as gemstones and jades.
The Museum has opened its unique exhibitions all the year round. According to the basic layout of the earth's circle structure, the exhibition not only shows tens of thousands of fine minerals, rocks, gemstones and fossils, but also pays more attention to the living environment and living quality of human beings. In addition, a large number of digital, bionic, virtual reality and other technologies are adopted, so that the audience can easily step into wonderful geoscience space by witnessing, operating and experiencing in the rich scientific atmosphere.
The Museum has been carrying out a variety of social education activities for a long time. “Earth”, founded in 1981, is the only geoscience popular science magazine in China. The annual National Youth Geoscience summer camp has become an important brand of social education activities. Various geoscience popular science activities, such as popular science lectures, popular science tours, and popular science consultation, continue to be carried out, which makes the social influence of the Museum continue to increase.
Permanent Exhibitions
“Earth Hall”
The main line of the earth hall is power. It introduces the important geological processes on the earth under the action of internal and external power. The east extension line introduces the internal dynamic geological process, focusing on plate movement, fold fracture, volcano, earthquake and other geological processes, while the west extension line mainly introduces the geological processes of water and wind. Relatively speaking, the internal dynamic geological process is more magnificent, which is mainly to make the crust rise and thicken, forming a lot of huge and majestic mountains, while the external dynamic geological process is relatively gentle, like a carving knife, carving out various magnificent mountains and rivers.
“Hall of Minerals and Rocks”
This hall adopts the design method of coexistence of refined and popular, combination of dynamic and static, echo of virtual and real, and combining of education and entertainment, so that the audience, while appreciating the exhibits, can understand the origin of mineral rocks in nature, the original output, the classification of various mineral rocks in nature, the sensory characteristics of representative mineral rocks and the characteristics that can be used by people. When appreciating various exquisite and peculiar mineral and rock exhibits, visitors can participate in the exploratory operation of some mineral and rock exhibits and acquire relevant knowledge through interactive and virtual exhibition.
Hall of Gemstones
It displays gemstone, jade, organic gemstone, precious metal and other materials and their finished products, and integrates knowledge points and interest points such as gemstone identification, gemstone appreciation, gemstone cutting type, gemstone evaluation, gemstone genesis, gemstone micro world, gemstone distribution, gemstone mining, gemstone processing, jewelry inlay, artificial improvement of gemstones and artificial gemstones and their manufacturing methods as well as gemstone culture. The hall won the top ten National Museum Exhibition Award. The hall is mainly composed of single crystal gems and jades, and natural gems are compared with artificial gems to identify common similar gems on the market.
Hall of Prehistoric Organisms
It, taking the major events in the process of biological evolution as clues, introduces the development process of organisms and common fossils in various geological periods to the audience, and shows the process of occurrence, evolution and extinction of organisms on the earth.
From the spatial layout, the whole exhibition hall can be divided into two parts. The first part is a small preface hall, including an artistic fossil wall, an interactive multimedia exhibition tool, concise biological classification query system, and some basic knowledge about fossils. The second part is the main exhibition content of the exhibition hall, which is divided into eight units. In addition, in the south corridor of the exhibition hall, there is also a model of ichthyosaur, Chinese Angel dragon and pterosaur fossil, as well as a large ichthyosaur fossil with a length of 5 meters that can be touched by the audience, and a multimedia exhibition device to demonstrate how the fossil is formed.
Transportation
1.Bus lines
(1)Bus 3, 13, 22, 38, 42, 88, 105, 409, T-bus 13. Get off at Xisikou Bei station.
(2)Bus 101, 102, 103, 124, 612. Get off at Xisikou Dong station.
(3)Bus 102, 105, 332. Get off at Xisikou Nan station.
(4)Bus 102, 13, 3, 42. Get off at Xisikou Xi station.
(5)Bus 109, 124, 38. Get off at Xisi Dingzi Street station.
2.Metro lines: take line 4, get off at Xisi station, exit through D.
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Address: No.15, Yangrou Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing
