What to see at the Shenzhen Natural History Museum, from dinosaur fossils to meteorites

The Shenzhen Natural History Museum will open to the public on July 28 as the first dedicated large-scale institution of its kind in southern China. Spearheaded by the Shenzhen government with a total investment of 3.5 billion yuan (US$517 million) – excluding the cost of collecting artefacts – the museum, located in the Pingshan district in the northeast of the city, is among its “Ten Cultural Facilities of the New Era”. The first of these to open was the new Shenzhen Art Museum in 2023,...