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Hubei Geological Museum

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The Hubei Geological Museum, located in Wuhan City of Hubei Province, is a local comprehensive museum of geological science in China. It was prepared in April 1954 and completed and opened to the public in June 1856.

The museum, covering a floor space of 7,200 square meters, has collected over 10,000 cultural relics, of which over 100 pieces are of the first grade. The museum is composed of four halls and two rooms, namely the Hall of Ordinary Geology, Stratum and Ancient Extinct Animals and Plants; the Hall of Minerals, Rocks and Deposits; the Hall of Deposit Development of Hubei Province and Jewelry Hall; and the Information Room and Audiovisual Room. On display are 3,100 samples, 120 moulds and 112 pictures and charts. The major exhibits are the turquoise, blue asbastos, crystal cluster, malachite, the fossil of dinosaur egg, and the sample of new species of Xinzhou Anhui tortoise. Also on display are the mineral products of Hubei Province, such as iron, copper, gold, silver, mercury, stibium, halite, gypsum, niobium, and rare-earth metals. The museum once held a temporary exhibition entitled the Exhibition of Achievements in Geological Science and Technology of Hubei Province. The Museum also carries out irregularly geological popular science activities such as the geological summer camp.

The major achievements of geological scientific researches arethe Name List of Ancient Extinct Animals and Plants in Hubei,the Cross Section of the Ancient Extinct Animals and Plants in the Stratum from the Sinian Periodto the Permian Period in the Eastern Area of the Yangtze River Three Gorges, and the information of the cross section of the Shennongjia Stratum.

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