{"id":72221,"date":"2026-07-28T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72221"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:07:03","slug":"what-to-see-at-the-shenzhen-natural-history-museum-from-dinosaur-fossils-to-meteorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72221","title":{"rendered":"What to see at the Shenzhen Natural History Museum, from dinosaur fossils to meteorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/27\/8cd496b9-b33a-42fb-998d-6a01deb9e47a_2b45ec13.jpg?itok=_kM2r2WB&amp;v=1785148644\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Shenzhen Natural History Museum will open to the public on July 28 as the first dedicated large-scale institution of its kind in southern China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Spearheaded by the Shenzhen government with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan (US$517 million) \u2013 excluding the cost of collecting artefacts \u2013 the museum, located in the Pingshan district in the northeast of the city, is among its \u201cTen Cultural Facilities of the New Era\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Shenzhen Natural History Museum is located on a 42,000-square-metre (450,000 sq ft) site, with a total floor area of 105,300 square metres. It was designed by Danish architectural firm 3XN, Canada-based B+H Architects and Chinese firm Zhubo Design in a consortium selected through a competition that drew more than 70 proposals from around the world.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Inspired by the form of a river delta, the building has a free-flowing, curvilinear structure that features a walkable green rooftop park and houses permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, research laboratories, a 1,100-seat nature theatre and three cinemas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/chinese-culture\/article\/3361967\/what-see-shenzhen-natural-history-museum-dinosaur-fossils-meteorites?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shenzhen Natural History Museum will open to the public on July 28 as the first dedicated large-scale institution of its kind in southern China&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6501,27306,2284,27307,2383,1447,11859],"class_list":["post-72221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-dinosaur","tag-fossils","tag-history","tag-meteorites","tag-museum","tag-natural","tag-shenzhen","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}