West China Metropolis Daily - Cover reporter Yan Wenwen Wu Deyu Zhang Zheng Liu Haoyang

　　There is a famous Chenghua Avenue in Chengdu.

Today, this avenue will welcome its landmark building, the Chengdu Natural History Museum (Chengdu University of Technology Museum).

As a provincial and municipal key project, the first museum jointly built by a city and a university in the province, and the first irregular-shaped public building in Chengdu, what "mysteries" are hidden in the Chengdu Natural History Museum?

Follow the West China Metropolis Daily and cover news reporters to visit the museum and experience the charm of this new cultural landmark in advance.

　　"Now we have entered the stage of sprinting for the exhibition, and the countdown to the opening of the museum has started." Ouyang Hui, a professor and doctoral supervisor of Chengdu University of Technology, and the executive deputy head of the preparatory group of the Chengdu Museum of Natural History, introduced that the museum was built next to the campus, without a fence, completely Open to the public.

　　The construction area of ​​50,000 square meters integrates Sichuan elements such as Shushan, Shudao, Shushui, etc.

　　The reporter learned that the architectural design and environmental design of the museum integrate Sichuan local elements such as Shushan, Shudao, and Shushui, and were completed by China Southwest Architecture Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. in cooperation with the American PCPA firm.

　　The main building is composed of six rock-shaped monomers of mountain peaks to pay homage to Mount Shu; the six monomers are connected by a pedestrian plank road and an overpass promenade, and the winding is full of the artistic conception of Shu Road; the bending interspersed in the outdoor environment The water flow and the reflecting pool show the thousand-year-old Shushui culture in Chengdu.

　　The museum has one basement floor and four floors above ground, with a total construction area of ​​50,520 square meters, of which the exhibition area is 17,005 square meters. Focusing on the theme of "Knowing the Earth's Homeland and Exploring the Mysteries of Nature", there are "Geological Environment", "Mineral Resources" and "Dragon Travel". There are 6 permanent exhibition halls and 2 temporary exhibition halls such as Sichuan-Chongqing”, “Dinosaurs Revealed”, “Life Exploration” and “Colorful Life”, as well as supporting exhibition and teaching facilities such as academic lecture hall, 4D cinema, ring-screen cinema, and research center.

　　"This large-scale museum has been open for design proposals since November 2017 and is about to open now. It took more than four years to build." According to the person in charge of the museum, after the completion of the Chengdu Natural History Museum, a new museum will be formed. It is an urban cultural landmark and will also better assist the construction of first-class disciplines of Chengdu University of Technology.

　　The largest collection of complete dinosaur fossils in Asia "Hechuan Mamenxisaurus"

　　Walking into the museum, the reporter saw that the museum has a rich collection. Currently, it has more than 60,000 pieces of minerals, rocks, minerals, precious jade, paleontology, animal and plant specimens, among which there are many world-class and national treasure-level boutiques and treasures, such as collections. There are more than 30 precious dinosaur skeleton specimens, ranking first in the natural museums of all universities in China in terms of quantity and type.

　　In the exhibition hall of "Longxing Sichuan-Chongqing" on the second floor, the fossil of "Hechuan Mamenxisaurus", which is known as the treasure of the town hall, is displayed. More than 80%, it is the largest complete dinosaur fossil in Asia so far. It was named by Mr. Yang Zhongjian, the "Father of Chinese Dinosaur Research", and the famous writer, historian and archaeologist Mr. Guo Moruo personally wrote the name.

　　It is worth mentioning that the museum also has a detailed display of the topography and landforms of Sichuan, the formation of the Sichuan Basin and the Chengdu Plain, the rich geoscience tourism resources in Sichuan, the types of geological disasters that are prone to occur in Sichuan... Three-dimensional models, color illustrations, sand tables, As well as multimedia exhibition items, it provides the best place for citizens to know and understand the land under their feet.