The museum's basic display area***5700 square meters. The display includes four parts: history of ancient animals, history of human development, and evolutionary history of animals and plants.
History of human development
History of human development display, with a large number of physical objects, models, unearthed artifacts, and two or three million years ago, the pre-ape life situation of the scenic box, revealing the origin of mankind, the formation and development of human society. Ancient human history display exhibits 370 pieces, showing that man is evolved from the ancient apes, human society is developed from the apes.
Animal display room
Animal display is divided into invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals in six display halls. In addition to the exhibition of China's first-class protected animals such as gibbons, golden monkeys, giant pandas, clouded leopards, money leopards, snow leopards, tigers, Asian elephants, dugongs, donkeys, sika deer, wild yaks, antelopes, wild camels, brown ptarmigans, alligators, white sturgeon, etc., there are also China's second-class protected animals and wild and extinct elk (i.e., the "four unimaginable") and many other rare birds and beasts. Rare birds and exotic animals. In addition, there are also many famous foreign animals on display, such as lions, giraffes, baboons and chimpanzees in Africa, platypus, kangaroos and emus in Australia, lions in the Americas, and high-footed crabs in Japan.
Animal and Plant Evolution Room
The history of animal and plant evolution is dominated by displays of ancient corpses and displays of plants.
Ancient Corpse Display Room***Display of five ancient corpses, including the Loulan female corpse excavated in the Loulan region of Xinjiang, according to the carbon 14 determination, thought to be 3880 ± 95 years from the present day, is the earliest of China's known ancient corpses in the age of one. In China's ancient corpses through the ages in the exhibition hall, but also on display in Xinjiang's unearthed more than 3,000 years ago in Hami, as well as the ancient corpses of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
The plant showroom is divided into the Prologue Hall, the Hall of Plant Evolution and the Hall of Transformation and Utilization of Plants. The contents include primitive algae, fungi without chlorophyll, lichens of fungus and algae ****, the precursor of terrestrial vascular plants -- ferns, a side branch of terrestrial plants -- mosses, until the higher autumn plants. Along the display line, the articulation of one ecological scene box after another demonstrates the process of plant evolution. In the center of the exhibition hall is a huge Carboniferous fern three-dimensional box, which reproduces the earliest swamp forests on earth more than 200 million years ago, and is also the first large forests that appeared after plants went from aquatic to terrestrial. Ferns such as scale wood and seal wood, which have been extinct on earth, stand in the upper layer of the forest, and countless grass ferns cover the swampy wetland.
Famous exhibits
Shanghai Nature Museum
Among the 180 exhibits on display in the Hall of Ancient Animal History, the most eye-catching ones are the Hechuan Mamenshiosaurus in the center of the hall and the Yellow River Ancient Elephant in the middle of the hall: the former, 22 meters long, 3.5 meters high at the shoulder, weighing dozens of tons, was unearthed in the town of Taihe in Chongqing's Hechuan District, one of the world's largest dinosaurs; the latter, 8 meters long, 4 meters high, with a pair of incisor teeth of 3 meters, is one of the world's largest dinosaurs. The latter was 8 meters long, 4 meters tall, and a pair of incisors was 3 meters long, excavated in the Loess Plateau in eastern Gansu, also a behemoth among ancient beasts. In addition, there are Xu's Lufeng dragon, multi-spined Tuojiang dragon, Wei's Junggar pterosaur, dinosaur eggs, dinosaur footprints, basaltic frogs, ichthyosaurs, thunder beasts, giant rhinoceros and other fossils of ancient animals.
In the Chinese ancient corpses through the ages display hall, on display in Xinjiang's unearthed more than 3,000 years ago, Hami ancient corpses, as well as ancient corpses of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
Rare Animals and Plants
The Animal Display*** has 2,757 exhibits with ecological landscape backing. There are two of the country's first thunderbird and snow hare electric ecological landscape
view, showing the animal body color can change with the seasons to adapt to the environment of the protective effect. In the display specimens, there are large mother-of-pearl, white sturgeon, giant salamanders, Yangzi crocodiles, leatherback turtles, brown horse chicken, northeastern tigers, dugongs, albino dolphins and other national first- and second-degree protection of the animals, some of which are also China's specialties; there are also a lot of foreign rare animals such as the high-footed crabs, birds of prey, chevrotains, cougars, emu, wallabies, and so on.
Plant evolution display *** has exhibits 323 pieces, showing the most primitive plant algae, no chlorophyll fungi, fungi *** raw lichens, terrestrial vascular plants pioneer ferns, terrestrial plants, a side branch of mosses, up to the highest level of seed plants, is the country's more complete, more detailed display of the plant world in the billions of years of history in the process of evolution and development of the display!
Shanghai, China
Shanghai Nature Museum, since the first special exhibition of "Several Common Agricultural and Forestry Beneficial Birds in Shanghai" held in May 1958, *** has organized 84 temporary and mobile exhibitions with different contents.
Shanghai Nature Museum
has 240,000 specimens of various kinds. Among them, there are high academic value of the model specimens of 100 kinds of 184 pieces, such as the first time to get the golden-headed closed-shelled turtle, Jinggang ridge snake, etc.; set a new record for the specimens (foreign countries have been taken, but the domestic is the first time to find); national first and second-class protection of biological specimens; rare paleontology, minerals, ancient corpses, such as the primitive cattle Cebu County subspecies, the ancient corpses of Hami, the first Beijing apes first cranium first model (cranial) Specimens have been lost); extremely rare foreign specimens, such as the "living fossil" known as the spear-tailed fish, wedge-toothed lizards, the platypus in the discussion of animal evolution is of great significance. The Shanghai Nature Museum also has 66,352 books and 10,047 periodicals, totaling 76,399 volumes.
Acquisition of specimens
Shanghai Nature Museum has a rich collection of specimens and library materials. In addition to receiving specimens of the former British-run Asian Cultural Society Shanghai Museum and some natural specimens of the French-run Aurora Museum, it mainly obtains all kinds of natural specimens through collection, acquisition, gift, exchange and other ways. By 1985, the collection of all kinds of specimens have more than 200,000 pieces, including more than 62,000 pieces of animal specimens, more than 135,000 pieces of plant specimens, more than 1,700 pieces of paleontological specimens, more than 700 pieces of new and old stoneware specimens, minerals and rocks more than 1,700 pieces of specimens. Among these specimens, there are a certain number of type specimens and new record specimens discovered for the first time in China. There are rare biological specimens unique to China and world-famous ones, and fossils that are 600 million years old. The museum also has a collection of more than 60,000 specialized books and materials in Chinese and foreign languages for scientific research and science education.