During the period of 1907, the predecessor of Dalian Natural Museum was "Geological Survey Institute" founded by Japan's "Nanman Railway Co., Ltd." after Japan invaded the northeast of China.
1923, after collecting a large number of natural specimens and materials from all parts of Northeast China, the Institute added a showroom, which mainly displayed rock minerals and some paleontological specimens, and marked the origin, reserves, mining value and use of the specimens, only for a few upper-class people in Japan to watch and study.
1926, due to the increase in the types and contents of displayed specimens, the area for collecting specimens was continuously expanded, covering various resources in Northeast China and Mongolia. The showroom was changed to "Manchu-Mongolian Information Reference Museum" and officially opened to the public in the same year.
1928 "Manchu-Mongolian reference museum" was expanded to 2,000 square meters in the wings and rear of the original building, and further collected rock and mineral samples collected from Northeast China, Mongolia, Siberia, Europe and America over the years, as well as physical samples and graphic materials of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and aquaculture. In the same year 165438+ 10, the Manchu-Mongolian Information Reference Museum was established for scientific research and appreciation.
1932 In addition to displaying the original resource specimens, it added the folk content of Northeast China, Mongolia and other places, and changed the name of the museum to "Manchuria Resource Museum".
1945 after the liberation of Dalian, on August 23rd, China Changchun Railway Company took over the museum and renamed it "Northeast Local Records Museum". Yegorov, a Soviet geological expert, was entrusted by Zhongchang Railway Research Institute as the curator to renovate the original exhibition.
1950165438+10. In October, Zhongchang Railway Bureau handed over the museum to the Culture and Education Bureau of Dalian Municipal People's Government for management, and at the same time changed the name of the museum to "Northeast Resources Museum", enriching and adjusting the exhibition content, mainly showing the natural resources in Northeast China and the new achievements after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and becoming a patriotic and socialist education for the broad masses of the people and popularizing scientific knowledge.
1959, the anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War 14, was officially named "Dalian Natural Museum", and Mr. Guo Moruo, then president of China Academy of Sciences, was invited to write the name of the museum in his own handwriting. Dalian Natural History Museum is the natural history museum in China. Divided into old and new museums. The old museum has a building area of 5 100 square meters and an exhibition area of 2,470 square meters. The building is Russian, built before 1900. It was originally the city hall when the Russian Empire occupied Dalian. 1925 was expanded into the Manchu-Mongolian information reference museum in March, and changed its name to Manchu-Mongolian resource museum in 1926, and changed its name to Manchu-Mongolian resource museum at the end of193/kloc-0. 1945 belongs to Dalian Branch of China-Changzhou Railway and is named Northeast Resources Museum. 1950 was officially taken over by Dalian Municipal People's Government, and 1959 was renamed Dalian Natural Museum. 1995 in order to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the city through science and education and protect the natural and cultural heritage, the municipal party Committee and the municipal government decided to relocate the new museum. The new museum was built and opened to the public.
The new museum is located at No.40, Xicun Street, Heishijiao, Shahekou District, Dalian (west of Xinghai Park). It is located in the beautiful Black Rock Reef, with a building area of 1.5 million square meters and an exhibition area of 1.0 million square meters. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides and rocks on all sides. This new building is typical of modern European style. The blue roof sets off the blue sea, blue sky and white clouds, and the scenery is pleasant. The museum now collects more than 200,000 specimens of various animals and plants, paleontology and rocks and minerals, among which large marine mammal specimens are the outstanding features of the museum. There is a 12 exhibition hall in the museum, including the earth, dinosaurs, marine life, northeast forest animals, wetlands and species diversity. High-tech hardware equipment such as touch multimedia computer, large-screen color TV, central air conditioning, building automation and security monitoring in the exhibition hall have created a convenient and comfortable appreciation environment for the audience. In addition, there are lounges for the audience to rest and watch the sea, multifunctional halls for cultural activities such as academic discussions, and service facilities such as shops and restaurants. Dalian Natural History Museum is a comprehensive natural science museum integrating the collection, research and display of geological, paleontological and animal and plant specimens. Its predecessor was established in 1907. The new museum is a modern European-style building, located on the beautiful coast of Black Rock Reef, with a building area of 1.5 million square meters and an exhibition area of 1.0 million square meters. It is the only museum in China with a sea area of 270,000 square meters and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
Dalian Museum of Natural History has nearly 200,000 specimens of various types and more than 6,000 precious specimens. The collection features marine biological specimens and Jehol biota fossils, among which there are more than 20 species of marine animals, the species and quantity of which are the highest in domestic natural museums, among which the 66.7-ton black right whale specimen is unique to China and rare in Asia. The fossil specimens of Jehol biota are the most diverse and distinctive in China, among which a nest of parrot-billed dinosaur fossils is the only one in the world, with the largest number and the most complete preservation, which shocked the world. The paper on its research results has been published in Nature (43 September 20041,2004).
Dalian Natural Museum has 12 exhibition hall, including the earth, dinosaurs, marine life, forest animals in Northeast China, wetlands, species diversity, paleontological fossils in western Liaoning and so on. Walking into the preface hall, a giant relief with a length of 22 meters and a height of 3 meters will perfectly combine nature with human art and be magnificent; The 40-meter-long huge semi-landscape painting and lifelike dinosaur ecological model in the dinosaur exhibition hall demonstrate the whole process of dinosaur's emergence, development and extinction, so that the audience can intuitively understand dinosaurs and their living environment; The rare and exquisite paleontological fossils in western Liaoning seem to silently tell people the magical story that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, which makes us have infinite reverie about the evolution of life and profound thinking about the future. In the exhibition hall of species diversity, the audience can hear the songs of nearly 30 species of birds from nature by pressing the button; Walking into the northeast forest animal exhibition hall is like entering a dense virgin forest, where all kinds of animals gather around you, which makes people sigh that we should cherish nature and protect wild animals. Touch multimedia computers, large-screen color TV sets, and high-tech hardware equipment such as central air conditioning, building automation, security monitoring and digital automatic interpretation system have created a convenient and comfortable environment for tourists. In addition, there are multifunctional halls for learning, telling and discussing cultural activities, lounges for tourists to rest and watch, and service facilities such as shopping and eating. Visiting Dalian Natural History Museum can not only increase the knowledge of natural science, but also appreciate the unique scenery of nature and listen to the dialogue between the sea and rocks surrounded by patches of black reefs and small stone forests.
The exhibition level of Dalian Natural Museum is advanced. The exhibition of the new museum has successively won the National Top Ten Excellent Exhibition Award in 2000, the Best New Material and New Technology Application Award, and the first prize of 200 1 Dalian Science and Technology Progress Award. Fossil research in western Liaoning won the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Dalian in 2005, a civilized unit in Dalian in 2006, the first ten environmental protection attractions in Dalian in 2000 and an advanced tourism unit in Dalian in 2002. In 2003, as the only museum selected in Northeast China, it participated in the Sino-French Culture Year held in France. Won the National Youth Science and Technology Education Base in 2002, the National Popular Science Education Base in 2005, the Dalian Excellent Popular Science Education Base in 2005 and the National Wildlife Conservation Popular Science Education Base in 2005. Dalian Museum of Natural History is warmly welcoming friends from all walks of life at home and abroad with a new look.