page_title: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of the "Home on Earth" exhibition at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. 中文: 上海科技馆内地球家园
context_page_description: Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large museum in Pudong, Shanghai, close to Century Park, the largest park within the inner districts of the city. It is one of China's most-visited museums.
context_section_description: The museum is dedicated to the popularization of science, with an intended theme of the harmony of "Nature, Mankind, and Technology". Like the overall building design, the original exhibits were designed by Creative Star Digital.
  It has 14 main permanent exhibitions and 4 science-themed cinemas. The exhibitions are:
  Spectrum of Life: A natural exhibit which imitates the scenery of Yunnan Province and displays its diversity of creatures.
  Earth Exploration
  Cradle of Design or Designers where visitors can use CAD/CAM to design and build small things
  Children's Rainbow Land
  Light of Wisdom
  Home on Earth
  Information Era
  World of Robots
  Light of Exploration is an exhibit which showcases human scientific achievements of the 20th century.
  Human and Health
  Space Navigation
  World of Animals
  Spiders Exhibition
  The Chinese Ancient Science and Technology Gallery showcases ancient Chinese inventions and works. The Explorers' Gallery features Chinese and foreign explorers. The Academicians' Gallery features contemporary scientists from China, particularly Shanghai.
  There was previously also an "Audio-Visual Discovery Paradise", s small-scale hydroelectric power station, a 700 square meters (7,500 sq ft) rain forest, an aviary, an aquarium, and an earthquake center including a motive platform with video allowing visitors to experience simulated tremors. The exhibitions are intended to "represent cutting-edge scientific development" using "innovative and unique exhibition methods" but many have not been updated since their installation. This behavior is common in China, where museums often subcontract all their exhibits' designs to private firms without any longterm arrangement to maintain or update them.
  There are also two temporary exhibition halls.
  The museum opened with 2 IMAX cinemas. With the later addition of another two, the cineplex is the largest dedicated to science education in Asia, with 10,000 showtimes each year. They are:
  IMAX 3D Theater
  IMAX Dome Theater
  IWERKS Theater
  Space Theater
caption: Part of the "Home on Earth" exhibition.
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