The Expo Park covers an area of 200 mu, with a total construction area of 1.6 million square meters, including Shaw Science and Technology Museum, Animal Museum and Insect Museum, Soil Museum, Plant Museum and China Agricultural History Museum, as well as butterfly garden, botanical garden, arboretum and various germplasm resources parks. It is an important subject base integrating teaching, scientific research and popular science. The Expo Park is a museum group established by the school on the basis of integrating scientific and educational resources. It is the first case in China to comprehensively and systematically publicize agricultural scientific and technological knowledge and display agricultural scientific and technological achievements in China.
Northwest A&F University has made remarkable achievements in agricultural science and education in the long-term construction and development of more than 70 years. In particular, several generations of agricultural science and education experts in Yangling have accumulated a large number of precious animal, plant, soil, insect specimens (in kind) and agricultural history collections, which have become important science and education resources of the school. Among them, insect specimens1.2000 and plant specimens (550000) rank first among universities in China. There are hundreds of thousands of animal specimens, including more than 8,000 rare animals with agricultural and forestry characteristics; There are more than 50,000 ancient books in the collection, ranking first among agricultural and forestry colleges in China. Among more than 300 kinds of agricultural ancient books in China, the school collects 284 kinds, including more than 20 kinds of rare books.
From 65438 to 0987, relying on the rich collection of insect specimens in the College of Plant Protection, the school established the first insect museum in China, and began to explore new ways of specimen resources protection, open utilization and popular science education. During the period of 1996, Li Lanqing, Vice Premier of the State Council, inspected the school and approved the construction of the second phase of the insect museum, which further developed the insect museum and insect discipline. Insect Museum has been successively rated as "China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Action Education Base", "Shaanxi Youth Education Base", "Shaanxi Popular Science Education Base" and "National Popular Science Education Base Unit". It has become an important base for scientific research, teaching practice and popular science education, and has played an important role in promoting the school and Yangling demonstration area. The completion of the Insect Museum has set a successful example for opening up the use of school specimen resources, serving teaching and scientific research, and developing popular science education.
Northwest A&F University merged from 65438 to 0999. In order to further integrate and tap the advantages of subject resources, establish a subject base integrating scientific research, teaching and popular science, protect and open the use of specimen resources, display agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and spread agricultural culture and scientific knowledge, on the basis of the original entomology museum, relying on the research achievements and advantages of entomology, animal husbandry and veterinary science, botany, soil science, agricultural history and other disciplines, the school started a blog, 200/kloc-in June 2006.
The World Expo Park is a social public welfare construction project, and its construction has been concerned, supported and funded by the state and Shaanxi provincial government, all walks of life, alumni and teachers and students of the whole school. Among them, Shaw Foundation donated 5 million Hong Kong dollars to build Shaw Science and Technology Museum, and all walks of life and alumni donated more than 4 million yuan to build China Agricultural History Museum. The local government and friends from all walks of life also donated a large number of exhibits to support the construction of the Expo Park.
On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2006, the World Expo Park was fully completed and opened to the public. It has become a discipline display platform of the school, mainly serving teaching and scientific research, educating the public on popular science, promoting quality education and patriotism education, promoting the combination of advanced technology and advanced culture, improving the national scientific and cultural level, and playing an important role in creating a harmonious society. Through a variety of modern exhibition means and rich exhibitions of specimens, models, objects and cultural relics, the museum vividly, systematically and scientifically introduces the knowledge of animals, insects, plants and soil and the history of agricultural science and technology, shows the brilliant achievements made in the development of agricultural science and technology and biotechnology in China, and spreads agricultural culture and scientific knowledge to the public. At present, the Expo Park has become the largest popular science education base with the theme of agricultural science and technology in China, consisting of five professional museums, which will play an inestimable role in serving teaching, popularizing agricultural scientific knowledge and comprehensively improving quality education.
Walking into the Insect Museum, you can learn about the interesting insect world and feel dancing with thousands of butterflies. A small butterfly will become a rare treasure like a giant panda. Touching the screen, you can hear vivid and lovely photoelectric models, such as the buzzing of wasps, cicadas, mosquitoes, crickets ... stinkbug's shell is broken, mosquitoes suck, and so on. Colorful insects are performing a lively and interesting insect world.
Stay in the zoo, explore the magical mysteries of the animal world and marvel at the resurrection of ancient creatures. Thousands of national protected animal specimens, such as giant pandas, antelopes and Tibetan antelopes, as well as hairy rhinoceros and dinosaur eggs, make people linger.
Go into the mysterious plant world and trace the source of life of all things.
Step into the world deep in the soil and feel the magic of five-color soil;
China Agricultural History Museum helps you to understand the agriculture of ten thousand years and explore the farming culture.
In the Expo Park, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, trees are shaded, bridges are flowing, waterfalls and fountains are flying, butterflies are dancing, flowers are in full bloom ... There are biological codes for human beings to thrive. It is a green pearl on the land of China, a central gallery of farming culture, and a place where legends and myths were born.