The Science Museum of Bailiandong Lava-Caves in Liuzhou, located at Baimian Mountain, 12 kilometers to the southeast of the suburbs of Liuzhou City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a local comprehensive museum of cave science in China, prepared in 1981 and opened to the public in the Spring Festival of 1985.
In 1956, a palaeanthropic site of culture was discovered at the entrance of the main cave hall of Baimian Mountain. After a systematic excavation, hundreds of stone artifacts and numerous fossils of animal skeleton belonging to the late Pleistocene Epoch and the early Recent Epoch were unearthed and it is proved to be one of the important cultural sites of human beings along the Liujiang River Valley during the late Paleolithic Age to the early Neolithic Age. In 1961, it is listed as one of the major historical sites under the protection of Liuzhou City.
The formal cultural site is used as the main body for displaying the museum, making use of the long and wide paths in the cave, and the sculptures and sound effects arranged in the wide open ground outside the cave to popularize the fundamental knowledge of social science and natural science, such as the history of social development, geology, palaeontology, hydrology, and karst. The museum displays in a systematical way the achievements of the study of palaeoanthropology in Guangxi and the scientific researches related to the cave science with its main exhibits such as the human fossils unearthed in various places of Guangxi, biological fossils and modern animal and plant samples, and mineral fossils, all attached with pictures and captions.
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