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. Spearheaded by the Shenzhen government with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan (US$517 million) – excluding the cost of collecting artefacts – the museum, located in the Pingshan district in the northeast of the city, is among its “Ten Cultural Facilities of the New Era”. The first of these to open was the new Shenzhen Art Museum in 2023,...
The museum, coming up on a 10-acre site, has completed around 60% of the construction work in its first phase, says the Agriculture Minister
Prior to the restored building, the district museum was cramped with visitors due to limited space. Some artefacts were kept in the open, outside the building