The education department of the museum is also the main business department, responsible for exhibitions, publicity, school services, audience reception, collection and screening of science and education films and holding lectures on popular science. The museum has 4 million visitors every year.
Ellen Foot, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, said at the press conference that day: "This museum mobile navigation system allows the museum to contact tourists anytime and anywhere, so that they can fully understand the rich resources of the museum, which also redefines the concept of visiting museums in 2 1 century."
This museum tour system, which took three years to develop, can be downloaded to mobile phones and various wireless terminal receiving devices for free. It can not only help visitors find their own location, but also navigate all 45 exhibition halls, theaters, bathrooms and restaurants of the museum, allowing visitors to walk freely in the museum.
In addition to the function of mobile phone tour guide, the navigation system also provides illustrated collection information and collection introduction every time visitors move and change places through the mobile phone demonstration platform. The system also customizes personalized tour routes for tourists, and even tourists can preset their own tour routes at home through the navigation system before visiting. At the same time, visitors can also surf the Internet through the navigation system and share the real-time visit experience with friends from far away.
Ellen Foot said that every visitor can download the navigation system software of the mobile museum for free, and the museum also provides more than 350 mobile devices for visitors to experience the navigation system for free.
The American Museum of Natural History has a history of 140 years. It is a world-renowned scientific, educational and cultural institution with a permanent collection of more than 32 million specimens and prehistoric cultural relics. The exhibition mainly includes astronomy, mineralogy, human history, ancient animals and modern animals. There are many replica models of fossils, dinosaurs, birds, Indians and Eskimos. Gems, mollusks and marine specimens are especially precious.
38 exhibition halls with an area of 500-1500m2. In addition, there is the Roosevelt Memorial Hall, which commemorates President T. Roosevelt's support for this cause. This hall is also used to hold special exhibitions to show important new discoveries in natural science and topics closely related to current events, social problems and citizens' lives. There are also laboratories, natural science centers and civic centers for amateurs to carry out various scientific activities. The museum has more than 10 discipline research departments, which are responsible for the collection, research and publication of specimens.
There is a statue of theodore roosevelt in military uniform at the main entrance of the museum. This magnificent statue is made to commemorate Roosevelt's contribution to the protection of nature, and there is also the Roosevelt Memorial Hall on the right side of the entrance. In American history, Roosevelt was called the father of modern America (190 1- 1909 president of the United States) and the father of protecting natural resources, because he put forward the idea of protecting, utilizing and developing natural resources completely during his presidency and developed a lot.
The museum is visited on four floors. On the first floor, there are North American Forest and Ecology Exhibition Hall, Gozman Earth Exhibition Hall, New York State Environment and Marine Life, North American Mammals and Mammals, Northwest Coast Indian Museum, Human Ecology and Evolution, Jos Meteorite Memorial Hall, Morgan Gemstone Memorial Hall, Guggenheim Henry Mineral Exhibition Hall, etc. The conception and layout of each part are magnificent. For example, eight giant elephant specimens are displayed in the center of the foyer, surrounded by liger deer and leopard specimens. Full of vitality like life. Each museum is equipped with modern sound effects and computer screen display, so it is quite impressive (I remember that it was not so popular when I 199 1 visited here). The North American Forest Museum shows the historical development of forest rings, from the virgin forest tens of thousands of years ago to the deforestation in modern society, and has carried out vivid education on protecting natural resources.
"Human Ecology and Evolution" vividly shows the evolution process of biology and human evolution in front of people, accompanied by audio-visual education in the history of human development. The design of the exhibition hall about gems and minerals is very novel, the light is as dark as entering the treasure cave, and the lighting of the exhibits is very exquisite, which is a very vivid mineral knowledge education, especially sapphire and big crystal. It is said that rubies rarely have large particles, and rubies over ten carats are rare. There is a 167-carat ruby in the Great Museum of London, England, and a 100-carat star ruby in the American Museum of Natural History. Most other libraries are herbarium, which mainly focus on the popularization and research of natural history knowledge, attracting a large number of primary and secondary school students to watch, and all of them are led by teachers and explained by special personnel, which seems to be an important part of extracurricular education in their schools.
On the second floor, there are Asian Mammals, Roosevelt Hall, Whitney Seabirds Memorial Exhibition Hall, Stott Asian Mammals Exhibition Hall, akerley African Mammals Exhibition Hall, African Mammals Exhibition Hall, World Birds Exhibition Hall, Mexico and Central America Exhibition Hall, South American Nationalities Exhibition Hall, etc. On the third floor, there are the Reptiles and Amphibians Museum, akerley African Mammals Exhibition Hall, new york Birds, new york Mammals, Primates Museum, Chapman North American Birds Exhibition, Donglindi and North American Indians Exhibition Hall, Meade Pacific Ethnology Exhibition Hall, etc. On the fourth floor, there is an exhibition of Wallace's mammals and extinct species, a dinosaur museum of primitive mammals and birds, and a huge dinosaur skeleton. There are also milstein Advanced Mammals Exhibition Hall, Lizard Dinosaur Museum and Vertebrate Origin Museum. We have visited almost all the above halls, and the hall with audio-visual equipment and "small TV films" has a long stay time.
We watched a movie about the origin of biology for about 20 minutes in front of the big screen TV in the lobby on the third floor. But the most attractive place is the special movie in the audience on the first floor. There are 200 to 300 people waiting in line to watch the 45-minute panoramic super-screen movie of the animal ecological world. This screen is the tallest we have ever seen. Up to two or three floors, the stereo, color and sound are all good. It passes through butterflies, migratory birds (geese), red crabs, zebras, cows, fish and sea crystals. Gorgeous colors and magnificent pictures. The close shot seems to be in the same space as these animals, while the distant view gives people a very beautiful and magnificent artistic feeling, and the vivid and subtle image gives people an education to live in harmony with nature. As far as the preservation of early human cultural relics is concerned, the Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum have something in common, but the emphasis here is on historical evolution, while the latter focuses on artistic value.
Generally speaking, this museum is mainly based on popular science knowledge and is very professional. Visitors are mainly teenagers, not as many as the Metropolitan Museum. I think with the strengthening of people's awareness of protecting the natural ecological environment, more people will come here to travel. If we focus on reflecting the changes of natural history from the perspective of protecting the ecological environment, it will be more practical and attract more people to visit. For example, the extinction of endangered animals and plants, the harm of desertification, the consequences of water shortage, the reduction of tropical rain forests and its consequences, the reduction of vegetation and the sharp decline of cultivated land, the impact of air pollution on natural ecology and animals and plants, and so on. Although it occupies a certain exhibition area, it needs to be greatly increased to make it not only a natural history museum, but also a natural ecological protection museum. Every time I visit the American Museum of Natural History, I feel new. In 2003, a lot of green environmental protection contents were added, which shows that the protection of natural homes has been paid more and more attention.