Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Theme Education Promotes Science Popularization Resources into Society, Running Science Popularization Venues Satisfying the People Dinosaurs | Theme | Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
The Science and Technology Museum is currently in the upgrade and renovation period, and is planned to be completed by 2025. Although temporarily separated from the public, based on research, the museum has imported rich science popularization resources into society and classrooms, becoming an important extension of science popularization education in the science museum during its closure period.
On June 17th, Wang Lianhua, Secretary of the Party Committee and Leader of the Theme Education Leading Group of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, gave a special party lecture on the theme of "running a science popularization venue that satisfies the people". Huang Hong, Deputy Leader of the 11th Tour Guidance Group of the Municipal Party Committee, and other members of the guidance group attended. During the special party class, Sheng Hong, a representative of the National People's Congress and the first secretary of the Ronghua Residential Area Party Branch and director of the Gubei Citizen Center in Hongqiao Street, Changning District, and Xu Jie, a gold medal lecturer at the Yangpu Binjiang "Renrenwu" Party Mass Service Station, combined their work experiences to vividly practice and understand the two important concepts of "full process people's democracy" and "people's city" at the grassroots level in Shanghai, which deeply inspired the attending party members.
Wang Lianhua said that in order to run science popularization stadiums to the satisfaction of the people, we should grasp the important task of science popularization for the people. Building a world-class science and technology museum cluster is not only a common dream of all science and technology museum personnel, but also a glorious mission bestowed upon them by the Party and the state. Can science museums continue to be loved by the people and answer three "yes" questions: can we accurately grasp the development trend of the global science popularization industry? Can you deeply understand the inherent requirements of national innovation driven development? Can we effectively shoulder the mission of high-quality development of science and technology museums? "We must adhere to a problem awareness, international perspective, systematic thinking, and a spirit of tackling challenges, and resolutely promote high-quality science popularization education, high-quality science popularization exhibitions, high-quality exhibition collections, and high-level scientific research."
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In order to empower the high-quality development of science popularization in the new era with the concept of "science popularization+", during the 2023 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival, the Exhibition and Education Center of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum actively walked out of the venue and made appearances on various platforms of the festival.
On May 25th, the first prize work "Strange Kitchen" from the national experimental exhibition and performance event made its debut at the opening ceremony of the Pudong New Area Science and Technology Festival. The science teacher from the Exhibition and Education Center of the Science and Technology Museum ignited the atmosphere of the opening ceremony with cool and magical scientific experiments and humorous and vivid performances, pushing it to a climax. At the opening ceremony of the Qingpu District Science and Technology Festival, the science teacher brought the first prize work of the National Science Experiment Exhibition and Performance, "Dad Under Pressure", and also performed the original science popularization flash drama "Newton's Story". The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum will transform the outstanding original award-winning works that emerged in the competition into science popularization resources, giving science vivid wings and flying towards a broader world.
On June 1st, Children's Day, the Science Popularization 3D Book Conference on "How to Revive a Dinosaur", sponsored by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai Library, and Shanghai Science Popularization Education Development Foundation, was held at the Shanghai Library. The dinosaur themed science popularization 3D book and three cultural and creative products developed by the Science and Technology Museum were showcased brilliantly, accompanied by rich and diverse interactive experiences and science popularization lectures, providing a dinosaur science popularization feast for more than 700 on-site audiences. In front of the 2-meter-high giant stereoscopic book installation, children and parents take photos to check in and interact with dinosaur dolls. Many children even made their own three-dimensional book and won various cultural and creative festival gifts from the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum through a lottery.
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After the press conference, the 197th Shanghai Science Popularization Forum was opened, and Xu Xing, a researcher of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave the audience a popular science lecture on "Looking for Dinosaur Fossils". He used fossil research as a clue and time as the axis, and through firsthand scientific anecdotes, he embarked on a journey of discovering Chinese dinosaurs for the audience - from the early Jurassic Lufenglong in Yunnan to the discovery of the last Cretaceous dinosaur fossils in Guangdong, which opened up a wide range of horizons.
"To run a science popularization venue that satisfies the people, we must understand the essence of putting the people first." Wang Lianhua said that in the new era and new journey, science museum personnel should adhere to the development concept of putting the people at the center, make every effort to enhance high-quality science popularization supply, and focus on enhancing the core functions of museums; At the same time, we will focus on the key and difficult issues in the development of the venue, plan and implement targeted policy measures, continuously stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all cadres and staff in the venue, and further gather the driving force for high-quality development of the venue with a good work style.