Vietnam National Museum of Nature - ideal destination for nature lovers and researchers
19/4/2021| 11:35The Vietnam National Museum of Nature describes Vietnam’s animal and plant life over 3.6 billion years and becomes an ideal destination for nature lovers and researchers.
Located at No.18 Hoang Quoc Viet street in Hanoi, the Vietnam National Museum of Nature covers 300 square meters. On display are 1,400 items describing the life cycles of mammals, retiles, amphibians, insects, and plants which were present in Vietnam millions of years ago and recently discovered.
The Vietnam National Museum of Nature takes visitors on trip back to ancient times, of which the species are categorized.
The exhibition of the history of life features warm light and colors, very pleasing to the eyes. On display are fossils of the four geological development periods on Earth: the pre-Cambrian period (4,500 - 541 million years ago), the Mesozoic (541 - 252 million years ago), the Mesozoic (252 - 66 million years ago) and the Great Neoplasm (66 million years to present day).
The exhibition of animals features bone specimens of frogs, carp, king cobras, tigers, ostrichs, and pig-tailed monkeys, precise to the smallest details. The collection of insect exhibits at the Vietnam National Museum is the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, grouped into beetles, dragonflies, cicadas, mantis, and stick insects, some of them lived 400 million years ago.
The exhibition of marine creatures features corals, shellfish, amphibians, and reptiles that are extinct. A panel is erected at each exhibition providing a short description.
Visitors to the Vietnam National Museum of Nature can learn to create specimens, paint the animals, and watch 3D movies about the evolution of humans, fish, dinosaurs, and insects and how the universe and the ocean have changed.
Entrance to the Vietnam National Museum of Nature is free from Thursday to Sunday.
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