Shandong Tianyu Natural Museum

Shandong Tianyu Natural Museum

Shandong Tianyu Natural Museum is locatedin the western section of Lianhuashan Road, Pingyi County, Linyi City, ShandongProvince. It is the largest natural geological museum and the largest dinosaurmuseum in the world.

The museum, with a total investment of 400million yuan, was completed and opened in September 2004, with a constructionarea of 32,000 square meters and a display area of 28,000 square meters. TheMuseum has one scientific research museum, one 4D dynamic cinema, 28 exhibitionhalls and more than 390,000 exhibits. More than 1200 dinosaurs and more than2200 bird fossils are preserved in the museum. The library publishes more than30 scientific achievements in scientific journals such as Nature and Science.

Since its establishment, Shandong TianyuNatural Museum has been named "Shandong Science Popularization EducationBase", "Shandong Province Care for the Next Generation of SciencePopularization Education Base", "China Paleontology SciencePopularization Education Place" and "National AAAA Tourist ScenicArea".

Historical evolution

Shandong Tianyu Natural Museum is locatedin Pingyi County, Shandong Province. It was built and opened in September 2004.In 2007, it was awarded National AAAA Tourist Scenic Spot. The building area is32,000 square meters.

Collection

There are 1106 complete individual dinosaurfossils in the museum, including Golden Mountain Dragon 8 meters long and 6meters high, lovely parrot-billed dragon in shape, and Avian Sinosaurus, therepresentative of the initial stage of evolution from dinosaurs to flyingbirds.

The Tianyu Museum of Natural History hasbeen recognized as the "largest Dinosaur Museum in the world" by theBritish headquarters of Guinness World Records for its 1106 complete individualdinosaur fossils. As of August 2010, the museum has won the "GuinnessPrize of the World" for six collections, known as "a book depictingnatural life". The Tianyu Natural Museum is considered to be the largestnatural geological museum in the world.

The exhibits are mainly mineral specimensand paleontological fossils. In the exhibition hall of 9 mineral specimens,there are thousands of rare specimens from all over the world. In 2006, it wasawarded the Top Ten "Xinjiang Tourmaline" by the European Journal ofMineral and Gemstone Specimens, which integrates the essence of heaven andearth and is glorious and world-class. The silicified wood produced in Qitai,Xinjiang, is 38 meters long and ranks the highest in the world. It was recordedin the "Guinness" world record in September 2007. The Amethyst caveproduced in Uruguay is 3.3 meters high and weighs 3.7 tons, which is thehighest in the world. The 3.9-ton crystal single crystal in the East China Seaof Jiangsu Province is the largest in Asia; the 338.6-carat diamond is thelargest super-large diamond ever produced in China, which is 179.82 caratsheavier than the most "Changlin diamond" (158.78 carats) in China. Ithas diamond luster and shiny treasure. In the largest gypsum SpecimenExhibition Hall in the world, all kinds of diamonds are transparent. Theplaster is crystal clear and dazzling; entering the world's largest stalactiteexhibition hall is like entering a dream world, which makes people daydreaminfinitely.

Among the six exhibition halls of GuanlingBiota in Guizhou, nearly 10,000 fossil specimens of various ichthyosaurs,Guizhou Dragons, Haydrosaurus, Hailong and Lilium are found in the Triassicstrata, ranging from large ichthyosaurs up to 18 meters long to smallichthyosaurs less than half a meter long, showing the diversity and complexityof Triassic organisms.

Of the seven exhibition halls of JeholBiota, there are nearly 200 parrot-billed dinosaur fossils in the dinosaurexhibition hall. Among them, the gastrolith preserved in the stomach of AvianDragon fossil and the fossil formed by food at that time are of greatornamental and scientific value. "Ten Thousand Fish Hall" shows morethan 100,000 different kinds of fish fossils more than 120 million years ago,which is one of the best in the world. Thousands of feathered dinosaur and birdfossils rarely seen in other museums around the world provide a solid physicalexample for people to study the extinction of dinosaurs and the origin ofbirds.

The Museum has a collection of nearly 1000deer and rhinoceros fossils from the Shanwang Biota strata, which are rare inother museums. They can be seen here in various carnivorous fossils, insectsand plant fossils. Seeing these fossils is like reading an endless "tenthousand volumes of books", which makes people linger and forget toreturn.

Main attractions

Dinosaur Hall

The hall mainly displays the fossils ofMesozoic animal dinosaurs. Dinosaurs appeared in Triassic, flourished inJurassic and extincted in Cretaceous. Because of the warm and humid climate ofthe Mesozoic, the four seasons are like spring, and plants grow everywhere, itis very suitable for reptiles to survive, especially all kinds of dinosaurs.They multiply and differentiate rapidly, spread all over the world, and havethousands of species. They controlled the three major habitats of the time:sea, land and air, and dominated the earth for 150 million years. Dinosaurs areone of the most successful animal species on earth.

The Museum has a collection of 8-meter-longand 6-meter-high golden mountain dragons, lovely parrot-billed dinosaurs, andthe first representative of the evolution from dinosaurs to flying birds, theSinosaurus, the earliest beaked bird in the world, the sage Confucius bird. Inaddition, thousands of dinosaur egg fossils with different shapes weredisplayed to the audience. The display of various dinosaur fossils is of immeasurablesignificance not only to the study of the origin of birds, but also to thestudy of the physiology, ecology and evolution of dinosaurs.

Butterfly Herbarium

The butterflies on display here includebutterflies growing in high mountains and cold areas of 2500-5000 meters abovesea level, such as Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang and Changbai Mountain inNortheast China. Their wings are as thin as silk. In addition, the preciousbutterfly species from Southeast Asia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and so on werealso exhibited, including the mimetic insect dead-leaf butterfly,purple-spotted ring butterfly, Cuifeng butterfly, Bawang butterfly. The vividand colorful butterflies are like colorful flowers, which bring you to thebeautiful nature.

Practical information

Ticket information

Ticket price: 80 yuan

Preferential policies:

A. Ticket-free policy: the height ofchildren is less than 1.2 meters free; 70 (including) elderly people over theage of one year are exempted with valid certificates, active servicemen withactive service officer certificates, disabled persons with disabilities,journalists with valid certificates.

B. Preferential policies: children's height1.2 (including) - 1.4 (including) meters to buy children's tickets in scenicspots (can be booked online), 60 (including) - 69 (including) one-year-oldpeople with valid certificates to buy preferential tickets in scenic spots (theabove preferential policies, need to buy in the scenic spots on their own).

3. Warm tips:

(1) Additional payment items: 3-D movies.

(2) Tickets are valid on the day ofdeparture. You need to enter the park and buy tickets again.

(3) In order to ensure ticket collectionand admission smoothly, please fill in the real name, mobile phone number andother information when booking.

Opening Hours

April-October 08:00-17:00

November-March 08:00-16:00

Traffic Information

Self-driving:

Linyi-Scenic Spot: Beijing-ShanghaiExpressway-Rilan Expressway-Rilan Expressway-58.0 km along Rilan Expressway,leaving Pingyi/Zaozhuang Exit and entering PingyiInterchange-S240-G327-S241-Lianhuashan Road-Terminal

Address: Pingyi County, Linyi City,Shandong Province

world record

The largest dinosaur museum: Tianyu NaturalMuseum in Shandong Province was opened in 2004. Its building area is 32,000square meters and its exhibition area is 28,000 square meters. It contains morethan 1,200 dinosaurs and 2,200 bird fossils. It is the largest dinosaur museumin the world. (Guinness)