NCKU earth science museum opens to the public
Taiwan, Tainan, March 11, 2014
The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Earth Science Museum, with its great collection of rocks and fossils is now open to be enjoyed by people of all ages, revealed the university.
The museum established in 1968 has gathered a huge collection of rock and mineral specimens as well as rare paleontological fossils, which amounts to approximately three thousand specimens in total.
It is officially open to the public starting from March 10, and serves to amaze the general public, elementary and high school groups, and university students alike.
The opening ceremony of the museum on March 10 was jointly hosted by NCKU Department Director Dr. Ruey-Juin Rau and Museum Director Dr. Ching-Hwei Chu.
The permanent exhibition titled “Miracle of the Ground” revolves around fossils, rocks and minerals as its main theme.
The fossil section displays the complete evolution of paleontology as well as mammal fossils and marine fossils unearthed by Tainan City Zuojhen District, Hengchun City Si Gou area and Penghu Channel.
Besides, the exhibition also includes the introduction to rock and minerals, including the three main types of rock, the world of mineral crystals and rock-forming minerals which are commonly found in Taiwan.
In addition, the museum has also re-organized the small special exhibition area named “Foramanifera – The Water Creature That Whispers the Mystery of the Earth”. Foramanifera, a type of microfossils which is extremely tiny such that it can only be observed under the microscope, has contributed greatly to paleontology, stratigraphy, history, oceanography and many other disciplines.
The small exhibition will place learning models, which have been bought and collected for years, on display alongside real specimens in order to introduce the classification of foraminifera and its applications in earth science.
The collections of the NCKU Earth Science Museum were originally used as vital materials and resources for learning in the Department of Earth Science.
Many items in the collection of the museum were either purchased abroad or through public donations; however, most of the specimens were collected in the wild by the teaching staff in the department, thus accumulating a huge amount of collection as seen today.
For instance, the quartz specimen in the museum, originated from Hualien, is a large, perfect crystal with good crystalline form which is rarely discovered in Taiwan.
Another exhibition item is the jaws of a mammoth found along the Penghu Channel, where the part of the lower molar had suffered circular grinding due to movement along the sea at a distance.
The NCKU Earth Science Museum is located on the second floor of the east side of NCKU Museum and opens Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Earth Science Museum, with its great collection of rocks and fossils is now open to be enjoyed by people of all ages, revealed the university.
The museum established in 1968 has gathered a huge collection of rock and mineral specimens as well as rare paleontological fossils, which amounts to approximately three thousand specimens in total.
It is officially open to the public starting from March 10, and serves to amaze the general public, elementary and high school groups, and university students alike.
The opening ceremony of the museum on March 10 was jointly hosted by NCKU Department Director Dr. Ruey-Juin Rau and Museum Director Dr. Ching-Hwei Chu.
The permanent exhibition titled “Miracle of the Ground” revolves around fossils, rocks and minerals as its main theme.
The fossil section displays the complete evolution of paleontology as well as mammal fossils and marine fossils unearthed by Tainan City Zuojhen District, Hengchun City Si Gou area and Penghu Channel.
Besides, the exhibition also includes the introduction to rock and minerals, including the three main types of rock, the world of mineral crystals and rock-forming minerals which are commonly found in Taiwan.
In addition, the museum has also re-organized the small special exhibition area named “Foramanifera – The Water Creature That Whispers the Mystery of the Earth”. Foramanifera, a type of microfossils which is extremely tiny such that it can only be observed under the microscope, has contributed greatly to paleontology, stratigraphy, history, oceanography and many other disciplines.
The small exhibition will place learning models, which have been bought and collected for years, on display alongside real specimens in order to introduce the classification of foraminifera and its applications in earth science.
The collections of the NCKU Earth Science Museum were originally used as vital materials and resources for learning in the Department of Earth Science.
Many items in the collection of the museum were either purchased abroad or through public donations; however, most of the specimens were collected in the wild by the teaching staff in the department, thus accumulating a huge amount of collection as seen today.
For instance, the quartz specimen in the museum, originated from Hualien, is a large, perfect crystal with good crystalline form which is rarely discovered in Taiwan.
Another exhibition item is the jaws of a mammoth found along the Penghu Channel, where the part of the lower molar had suffered circular grinding due to movement along the sea at a distance.
The NCKU Earth Science Museum is located on the second floor of the east side of NCKU Museum and opens Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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