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Published: November 14th 2009
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"Orient of the Light" sculpture
We saw this on our way to the museum. It is at the entrance to Century Square and I think is supposed to represent a sundial On Sunday, November 8th, we went to the
Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai. Overall, I was impressed by the size of this museum. It had an extremely large variety of exhibits which were mostly marked well in English. The building itself was what impressed me the most. The central area is a large geodesic dome. There are also 4 different types of movie theatres - Imax Dome, 3-D Imax, 4-D and Space Theatre, unfortunately, the movies were only in Chinese, so we didn't go to any. There were many areas that we didn't have time to see or went through quickly.
The first area we entered was the Animals World, taxidermied displays separated by continent. There was a large amount, and although they were quite close together, they had some interesting poses of them catching prey, etc. The Spectrum of Life was the Rainforest area, with areas of insects and reptiles. There were many nicely mounted specimens, but I so love going into live butterfly gardens, that I don't enjoy the mounted displays nearly as well! The rainforest was nice to walk through, but I've been much more impressed by ones in the states (like the Cleveland, OH Zoo).
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the floor above the animal displays was quite a large spider exhibit. There seemed to be lots of interesting info here, but I was getting quite hungry and just got the overview of it all. If we ever study spiders for school, I know where to go now!
For lunch, we checked out the food court area in the basement (you get your hand stamped to go down there), but decided to pass. There was a huge selection of Chinese food and we could've all found something, but it was hot in the whole seating area. We went back upstairs to the Chinese Restaurant next to the dome. The food was good and the atmosphere was much nicer than the basement! Jim even took a nap sitting there after lunch!
After lunch, we headed to the World of Robots. This was an interesting, busy place! There were assembly line robots "dancing" to music, robots that could paint, one who would play the piano when you sang karaoke, ones you could play games with, one you could challenge in archery and more. Their were even robot dogs that you could give commands to, and you could even do it
in English if you went and got someone to set it up, but we decided not to wait, just watched the Chinese give commands a little.
In the Space Exhibition Hall, Jim tried the Tetraxon Balancer. I got dizzy just watching! But, when he got off, he walked over to us with no problem! Maybe he's in the wrong profession! Leah wanted to try to find out her weight on all of the different planets, but, unfortunately it was all in Chinese!
In the Human and Health area, we saw some extra big models of bacteria, a ceiling high DNA model ( I was surprised Leah knew what it was! Who knows where she learned that!) Leah tried keeping up with a robotic ping pong server, and Jim and Leah both got timed hitting a punching bag.
In the Earth Exploration area, we saw a light and sound simulation of a volcano, walked through a coal mine and an underground cavern!
Jim and Leah even enjoyed studying the inner workings of an escalator on an upper floor. Quite clever that they had turned it into an exhibit!
After the museum closed, we had to walk
through the underground market to get to the subway station. We took enough time to look at some booths with DS games, but didn't find what Leah is wanting, so headed to the subway so we wouldn't get home too late!
Make sure you scroll through and see all of the pics, go below the comment box, then on to the second page!
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armin
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different exhibition
different exhibition areas on themes such as intelligence, innovation and future are located beneath a long expanse of roof space that ascends in spiral shape, i thing this type of design was meant to represents the city's dynamic development.