The Shenzhen Museum of Natural History, one of the city’s 10 new cultural landmark facilities, will be settled in Pingshan District, according to an announcement by Pingshan District Government.
Pingshan is known for its unique, beautiful, natural environment, cultural heritage and innovation vitality, the district government said in the announcement.
The project is located in the Yanzi Lake area of Pingshan CBD and will be a large, comprehensive, world-leading museum of natural history.
According to the plan, the museum will serve four functions, namely collection, exhibition, research and natural science education. It endeavors to become a leading natural history heritage center, a natural specimen display center, a natural science research center and a natural science popularization center.
It will be a modern museum of natural history with wide application of high technologies and the first large museum of natural history in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and even in South China, according to the announcement.
The Shenzhen Museum of Natural History is one of the 10 new landmark cultural facilities that Shenzhen is currently planning to build in the coming three years. The others are Shenzhen Opera House, Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall, Creative Design Hall, Shenzhen Hall of the National Museum of China, Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum, Shenzhen Oceanic Museum, New Hall of Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen Innovation and Creative Design Academy and Shenzhen Conservatory of Music.
Historically, Shenzhen has undergone two massive rounds of cultural facility construction, one in the 1980s and the other in the new millennium.
However, compared to other first-tier cities, like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Shenzhen still lags behind in cultural facilities. Beijing and Shanghai have 179 and 125 museums, respectively, while the number in Shenzhen is only 47, which is 14 fewer than that in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province.
As for performance venues, Shenzhen has 11, a quarter of the number in Beijing and Shanghai.
Shenzhen now boasts 50 cultural facilities with floor space exceeding 10,000 square meters and 21 stadiums with at least 3,000 seats.