Visit the Wuhan Natural History Museum in person and experience the harmonious coexistence of life and nature
Since the "Reading Nature" column was launched, we have received many recitation audio recordings, some from local voices in Wuhan, and quite a few from readers in other places. Everyone has a landscape in their heart, and everyone has their own understanding of nature, using their voices to convey energy, to savor green, to reflect on nature, and to live happily.
In this issue"Reading Nature"the column willgo into the Wuhan Natural History Museum, using voices to converse with the past and the future, and to experience the "vicissitudes of time and the birth of the great river" of the world of great rivers, the "livable city, beautiful dream", "natural ecology and cultural landscape"...
As everyone knows, a museum is a university without walls. When you step into a museum, the development and changes of the world over thousands of years, or even hundreds of millions of years, are within reach.
Wuhan has many museums, covering science and technology, culture, history... On July 18, 2018, Wuhan gained a natural history museum -Wuhan Natural History Museum · Behring Great River Life Hall.
The construction of the Wuhan Natural History Museum filled the gap of Wuhan's 114 museums having not a single natural history museum, and isthe world's first museum with great rivers as its theme background, building a bridge of communication for people to understand great rivers, cherish life, and protect ecology.
Wuhan Natural History Museum · Behring Great River Life Hall
is located to the north of the Yangtze River Civilization Museum, with a building area of 28,900 sq m and an exhibition area of 18,000 sq m.
The exhibition hall takes great rivers as its background, life as its theme, and the specimens donated by Behring as its foundation, and takes the Yangtze River in dialogue with the world's great rivers as its exhibition concept. It displays more than 3,000 specimens of various kinds, including paleontological, animal and plant specimens, as well as a variety of modern exhibition methods, showing the geological background related to great rivers and the life history of the rivers themselves, the biodiversity, interconnectedness and differences of the world's ten representative great rivers, and the natural laws of ecosystem succession and life evolution.
The exhibition theme is "Journey of Great Rivers, Song of Life", including"Vicissitudes of Great Rivers", "Rare Life of Great Rivers", "Reflections on Great Rivers", "Exploration of Great Rivers"and"Science Popularization Space"five major sections:
"Vicissitudes of Great Rivers":the exhibition area mainly displays the geological background related to great rivers and the history of life evolution;
"Rare Life of Great Rivers":the exhibition area mainly displays the biodiversity of the world's representative great rivers, including the Amazon River, Mississippi River, Yenisei River, Danube River, Yellow River, Ganges River, Mekong River, Murray River, Nile River and Mara River;
"Reflections on Great Rivers":the exhibition area mainly reveals the significance of protecting biodiversity through displays of biological extinction and actions of human awakening of environmental awareness;
"Exploration of Great Rivers":the exhibition area mainly features interactive projects related to river geology and biology, allowing visitors to deepen their understanding of the exhibition through interactive experiences;
△The largest elephant in the world
"Science Popularization Space":it is an education classroom, using exhibition resources and social resources to serve young people in learning natural knowledge.
Visitors can gain three major featured experiences from it
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Appreciate animal specimens and ecological environments from major river basins around the world
The Wuhan Natural History Museum displays the biodiversity, interconnectedness and differences of the world's representative great river basins, including the Amazon River, Mississippi River, Yenisei River, Danube River, Yellow River, Ganges River, Mekong River, Murray River, Nile River and Mara River, as well as the natural laws of ecosystem succession and life evolution.
Visitors can "run" along with white-tailed gnus, moose and African savanna elephants, though they must "beware" the "lurking" of cheetahs, white lions and others; they can "play in the water" with sailfish, but must "pay attention" to the "movements" of large whale sharks... Above some exhibits, an optimized and upgraded projection technology is used to present vivid 3D visual science popularization animations, accompanied by lifelike natural background music, making visitors feel as if they are truly there.
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View fine fossils from ancient times
The Behring Great River Life Hall displays China's largest JurassicMamenchisaurus sinocanadorum；
unearthed in Qitai, Xinjiang, as well as one of the longest Jurassicsilicified wood；
specimens currently exhibited in a Chinese museum. Visitors can also see China's largest restored and mountedgiant rhinoceros fossil skeleton；
from 30 million years ago, and also China's largest Triassicdinosaur footprint fossil wallweighing 20 tons, and more.
These precious fossil specimens provide valuable physical materials for us to explore the evolution of life.
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Experience a dreamlike journey blending natural ecology with modern technology
The Behring Great River Life Hall has a 4D cinema, and introduced three films from the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.
"Panda Roll - Looking for a New Home"
tells various thrilling stories experienced by a panda and its companion red panda on a journey to find a new bamboo forest."Legend of the Feathered Dragon"
selects Yingyu, the leader of the feathered tyrannosaurs, as the protagonist, with family destiny and natural disasters as the story line."Bacteria Battle"
features the protagonist Ali, leader of the white blood cell vanguard, who normally works in division of labor with other white blood cell members such as Shulin and Juzai to wipe out harmful bacteria invading the human body.
In the Yangtze River Civilization Museum, there is a wonderful "Dream of the Yangtze River" dark ride experience show, with Chuck Comisky, the visual effects supervisor of the film "Avatar" and known as the "father of Hollywood 3D technology", serving as the chief director of the exhibition show, and with Wayne England, who has twice won the American Emmy Award for Best Visual Effects, as well as John Joseph Matthews, who has served as a top designer for amusement parks and museums in South Korea, Jordan and other places, jointly participating in the production.
Visitors can "follow" the protagonist, the baiji dolphin "Qiqi", to "fly over" the Yellow Crane Tower, Tengwang Pavilion and Yueyang Tower, "glide" over the Geladaindong glacier and snow mountains, and "travel through" the Three Gorges Dam and the perilous lands of Bashu... experiencing in 360 degrees the grand beauty of the Yangtze River basin and the magical 30 degrees north latitude where civilization was born.
△As soon as you enter the prologue hall, it is so brilliant like a starry river!
△It feels immersive, doesn't it!
△This screen on the ground is also really amazing....
How about it?
Are you getting itchy to go?
Here is a free visit opportunity, do you want it?
The "Reading Nature" recitation column of the Wuhan National Voluntary Tree Planting Network
will go into the Wuhan Natural History Museum
to take you to experience a different kind of "natural" scenery
How to get an in-person visit opportunity?
① "The Story of Life"
② "A General History of Nature"
③ Your own choice (articles related to nature, natural changes, life, or the Yangtze River)
Choose any one article or excerpt from the above and record a recitation
The recitation must not exceed 8 minutes
Send it in the form ofaudio(mp3 format) to Xiao Qi
The audio will be displayed on October 8
The top 50 with the highest number of likes
will receive in-person visit tickets
The top 5 reciters by combined ranking of reads and likes
will also receive an on-site recitation opportunity and surprise benefits
(to be revealed at the event~)
Collection period:
September 17 - October 7
(For more Wuhan Natural History Museum visiting tips, see you next issue!)