Museum of Chengdu University of Technology
No.1 Dongsan lu Erxianqiao, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, P.R.China
Mon-Fri: 9:00-17:00
Sat-Sun: 9:30-16:30
Closed to the public only in Spring Festival holidays
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology was set up in 1960 and has a history of up to 50 years. The museum has a variety of country resource specimens such as paleontological fossils, rocks, mineral products and so on. The previous museum had 9 exhibition halls (rooms) - Hall of Dinosaur Fossils, Hall of the Earth’s Evolution, Hall of Mineral Resources and Hall of Life Evolutionary History, etc and 2 outdoor platforms. The total exhibition area was 3,000 square meters.
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology has had the largest scale and the most abundant collection among the natural museums on geoscience in West China and Chinese universities so far. It is the only university museum that embraces all the titles of “Popular Science Education Base” awarded by from central authorities to provincial and civic authorities. As well it is the Patriotism Education Base of Sichuan Province and Chengdu City.
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology has abundant collection resources. At present it has over 60,000 collections of paleontological fossils, minerals, rocks, mineral products, gems and jades, ornamental stones, etc. Among the collections there are many world-class, nation-class delicacies and treasures. For example, the 20 plus precious dinosaur fossils rank first in number and sort among all Chinese university museums; a world-famous dinosaur fossil - Mamenchisaurus Hochanensis, which is admired as “the museum’s top treasure”, is 22 meters long and the biggest one among the integrated dinosaur fossils in China and Asia; a fish fossil - Chungkingichthys Tachuensis, 57cm in length, 20cm in width, full and distinct, is an infrequent curiosa in fish fossil world; Longchang Iron-nickel Meteorite is the earliest meteorite which have been recorded and collected in China; the system profile specimen and geological information of Emei Mountain, Longmen Mountain sedimentary facies reflect the land-sea vicissitude from Permian to Cretaceous Period in Sichuan Basin.
The museum has an administration and operation office, a popular-science education office, a technique office, a collection office and a network information office. The total number of the staff who directly take up the work of popular science education, scientific study and museum management is 19; that of the staff who take up hygienic and safeguarding work is 3。
According to the opening regulation, the museum keeps open 360 days per year. It enables teenagers in groups to visit for free. Every year on Earth Day, Museum Day, Women’s Day, Children’s Day and in Popular Science Month, it enables the corresponding groups to visit for free. It asks separate visitors for charge and students half-charge.
For years the museum has been devoted to scientific studies and has undertaken some scientific projects such as the national natural science fund project , national science and technology key sub-project , university research fund project , etc. The museum members have often done excavating and research work at the fossil sites. They have more than 6 academic papers published per year. The museum carries out active co-operations and intercourse with craft brothers at home and abroad and experts of the correlated realms. The communicatees include scholars and professors from Jilin University, Cambridge University, München Paleontology Museum in German, etc. The intercourse times reach over 12 per year.
As an important window unit for the university to develop cultural intercourses, the Museum of Chengdu University of Technology receives foreign leaders, experts and tourists for over 100 person-times per year.
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology undertakes the task to serve the teachers and students of the university itself in their teaching and studying and develops the function actively to serve the society as well. The museum holds external exhibitions actively every year to send popular science into schools, communities, villages and disadvantaged groups. The representative exhibitions are: “Dinosaur Kingdom Exposition” in Taipei City and Taichung City in Taiwan in 1995-1996; “Chinese Dinosaur Large-scale Exhibition” in Taipei City, Taichung City and Kaohsiung City in Taiwan in 2002, which absorbed 800,000 audiences and gained full yea and high opinions from correlated national departments; “The First Dinosaur Cultural Festival in Sichuan Province” in Chengdu City in 2006; “the First Marvellous Stones Exhibition of West Flower Exposition ” in Wenjiang, Chengdu in 2006; “‘Prehistoric Paradise’ Large-scale Popular Science Exhibition” in Chengdu City in 2009; the exhibition held in earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan Province; the exhibition titled “Listening to the Dinosaurs’ Call” in Chongqing in 2010, the large-scale dinosaur exhibition titled “human’s harmonious living together with nature” in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province in 2011, the exhibition titled “Let’s explore dinosaurs and protect the earth”, etc. Besides, it has held exhibitions in many places with the title of “Let’s protect resources, cherish environment and build harmonious society”. The museum received 30,000 visitors from outside of the campus every year. As well it offers voluntary service of appraisal and consultation to the people of all walks who are interested in geoscience. By building “Network Museum” the museum expands its popular science propaganda.
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology is a Dinosaur Research Center which was subordinated to former Ministry of Geology and Mineral and has undertaken many scientific projects run by the nation, province and ministry. It has got many awards such as the Second Prize of National Natural Science, the First and Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Achievements granted separately by Ministry of National Land and Resources and Sichuan Province. The museum has attached importance to popular science education to the teenagers and made remarkable achievements. It has been conferred the titles of National Popular Science Education Base, National Teenager Science and Technology Education Base, Chinese Youth Science and Technology Innovating Action Education Base, Chinese Paleontology Popular Science Education Base, Popular Science Education Base of Sichuan Province, Teenager Science and Technology Education Base of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Patriotism Education Base, Teenager Popular Science Education Base of Chengdu City, Chengdu Patriotism Education Base by Propaganda Ministry of CPC Central Committee, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, National Youth Union, Provincial Commission and Government of Sichuan Province, Municipal Commission and Government of Chengdu City, Chinese Paleontology Academy.
Books:
He Xinlu, Li Kui, Cai Kaiji: The Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, Vol IV, The Sauropod Dinosaurs (II), Omeisaurus Tianfuensis, Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Apr. 1988.
Li Kui, Zhang Yuguang, Cai Kaiji: The Characteristics of the Composition of the Trace Elements in Jurassic Dinosaur Bones and Red Beds in Sichuan Basin, Geological Publishing House, Oct. 1999.
Liu Jian(translator): Frightful Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, Anhui Juvenile &Children's Publishing House, Oct. 2006.
Liu Jian(translator): Frightful Insects and Other Crawlers, Anhui Juvenile &Children's Publishing House, Oct. 2006.
Articles:
Lu Yuan: Informatization Construction of Museums----Local Area Network Construction, Chinese Museum, 2001(2).
Wang Zhengxin, Li Kui, Liu Jian: Mamenchisaurus of Late Jurassic from Sichuan Province, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology(Natural Sciences), 2003(5).
Li Yimin: Shallow Discussion on the Development and Management of Precious Stone Resources, Management Geological Science and Technology, 2003(5).
Yao Yifeng, Li Kui, Liu Jian, etc: Discussion on paleoclimate of Jinsha Site in Chengdu in 3000 a BP, Journal of Palaeogeography, 2005(4).
Luo Deyan: On the Practice and Thinking of University Museums’ Attending the Enterprises’ Cultural Construction, Tian Fu New Idea, 2008(S1).
Lu Yuan, Wang Zhengxin, Hu Fang, Xu Rong, Xiang Dong: The Development of the Museum of Chengdu University of Technology in Past 30 Years, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology(Social Sciences), 2008(4).
Hu Fang, Li Yimin, Luo Deyan: Shallow Discuss on How Museums of Natural History Play the Educational Function of Ecological Civilization, Social Sciences Review, 2009(1).
Chen Rong: Application of MATLAB-based of BP Neural Network in Reservoir Parameters Prediction, Well Logging Technology, 2009(1).
Chen Rong: Sedimentary facies types and models for the Neogene deposits on the northern slope of the Chengning uplift, Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 2009(2).
Hu Fang, Li Kui, Li Yimin: Discuss on the Service Function For Study of Museums, Social Sciences Review, 2009(8).
Zhang Huaying: Shallow Discuss on the Collection Management of Museums, Science and Technology Innovation Herald, 2009(19).
Chen Rong: Sequence Stratigraphy of Neogene in the Northern Slope of the Chenging Uplift, Journal of Stratigraphy, 2010(2).
Li Kui, Yang Chunyan, Liu Jian, Wang Zhengxin: A New Sauropod from the Lower Jurassic of Huili, Sichuan, China, Vertebrata Palasiatica, 2010(3).
Wang Long: Discuss on Public Participation and the Amplification of Museum Function, Museum Research, 2010(4)
Liu Jian: On the Training and Development of Voluntary Cicerones of University Museums:Taking Museum of Chengdu University of Technology for Example, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology(Social Sciences), 2011(5) .
Chen Rong, Li Kui, Luo Deyan: Shallow Discuss on the Role of Museums of Natural History in Quality Education in Primary and Middle Schools, Science & Technology Information, 2011(8).
Liu Jian: Strategies of Market Segmentation and Portfolio of Museums----Take Museum of Chengdu University of Technology, Social Sciences Review, 2011(8)