Hunan Geological Museum was founded in 1958, it was formally opened in 1980. Old museum has eight exhibition halls, including cosmic evolution, biological evolution, the dinosaur world, the origin of man, environment, resource protection, mineral formation and mineral rock classification and gem stone; the new museum is located in Tianxin District fir Chong Road, covers an area of ​​71.9 acres, the building area of ​​56 acres, located on site, "Office of the sequence," "Into the Earth", "open the treasure", "hard work", "gloomy", "protect the earth," "gem stone "eight main exhibition hall. Museum rich in content, new forms, is that people learn earth science knowledge and understanding of excellent classroom of nature.

Geological Museum in Hunan province perennial responsible for geological science, scientific research, foreign exchange and other tasks. Is a geology museum, all kinds of precious specimens, the collection exhibits a million pieces, of which no teeth Hibiscus Long, stibnite, scheelite unique characteristics of Hunan. Open all year round, received more than a dozen countries and exchange of experts to visit the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden, Hunan Province, is an important window of foreign exchange.

Department of Earth

Why are there mountains ocean, plain basin, mineral rock on Earth? This problem is studied widely curious question, but also geology. Here you can learn Earth's geological formation with a variety of style shows, basic knowledge of the mechanism of the basic characteristics of the three rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks), the earthquake and tsunami formed, the planetarium.

Paleontology hall

The origin of life is mysteries, through huge natural evolution of the helical schematic life, clearly reveal the Paleozoic, Mesozoic evolution of the new generation of life on Earth. There phantom imaging and Chengjiang Biota, there are giant saber-toothed elephant fossil skeleton of a large dinosaur models with all kinds of different ages, dinosaur eggs and dinosaur footprint fossils, especially the renowned Chinese and foreign toothless dragon Hibiscus, is the only worldwide one of three.

Mineral Hall

Mineral elemental or compound formed by the geological, the basic component composition of rocks. Here you can understand the basic properties of minerals on Earth, the basic method of classification of mineral minerals, use, learn to recognize common, but can be up close contact with these treasures of nature.

Mineral Crystal Hall

Mineral crystal display here nearly a thousand pieces, their different patterns, bright, exquisite, from the nature gods of these treasures come from the hands of a few large mines in Hunan several major producing mines and domestic and foreign several provinces The main producing mines countries. In which more than 300 pieces from all over the world and fine mineral crystals dish, from the United States such as Colorado rhodochrosite, produced in Pakistan Aquamarine and so on. We take the museum to provide space, implementation of powerful alliances, cited by way of development and social forces joint exhibitions, to maximize the blend of the world's top mineral crystals, regular focus on display, allowing visitors to see them all.

Resources Department

The Office demonstrates Hunan mineral resources, land resources, water resources types, characteristics, distribution, abundance, strengths and weaknesses. Showcasing the history and current status of the development and utilization of land resources in Hunan, the province among the best in the country minerals and their distribution, the province and the province of the four major mining geological exploration unit profiles, depicted through a lot of physical mapping and mapping technology development context Hunan provincial distribution of land resources utilization status.

Geological Environment Agency

The Office introduced the geological environment of the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere composition and its impact on human life, the type of geological disasters and their destructive force. There are real and thrilling 4D landslides mine elevator, there is a realistic man-made wonders of the cave, there are huge ECOLOGICAL pictures and large e-books, as well as showcase the beauty of Hunan three touchscreen.

Scenic Area Address: Tianxin red fir Road 49

Car lines: in Changsha city by 105, 125 bus to