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About Daqing Museum
Its main themes are the Quaternary environment of Northeast China, ancient mammals and the region's early human communities. Mammoth and woolly-rhinoceros fossils give the natural-history galleries a distinctive focus, while archaeological objects connect changing environments with human settlement. Following those three themes in sequence makes the museum a useful introduction to the Songnen plain before visiting Daqing's separate industrial-history institutions.
The museum's predecessor, the Daqing Exhibition Hall (大庆展览馆), was established in 1964 and occupied several sites before a hall north of Daqing Children's Park opened in 1975. It was renamed Daqing Museum in 1998 and moved in 2008 into a new 18,700-square-meter building in Daqing's development zone, forming a complex there with the Daqing Opera House (大庆歌剧院) and Daqing Book Garden (大庆书苑). The State Administration of Cultural Heritage named it a national second-grade museum in 2009, and the China Museums Association raised it to national first-grade museum status in 2017.
The museum holds more than 200,000 specimens, fossils and cultural relics, including 48 first-grade, 386 second-grade and 1,167 third-grade relics, and is considered one of the museums worldwide with the most complete range of species among mammoth and woolly-rhinoceros fauna fossils.
What to look for
- Mammoth and woolly-rhinoceros fossils in the Quaternary mammal collection.
- The environmental-history and early-human-civilisation displays that place those animals in context.
Location & getting there
Getting to Daqing Museum
The museum is at 2 Wenyuan Street in Longfeng District, in the cultural complex beside Daqing Grand Theatre.
- Use this Wenyuan Street venue for natural history; the petroleum and Wang Jinxi museums are separate institutions.
Combine your visit
Suggested order within this visit:
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Quaternary environment
Start with the changing landscape and climate.
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Ancient mammals
Read the fossil animals within that environment.
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Early human civilisation
Finish with the archaeological account of local settlement.
This sequence is an editorial suggestion based on the features described in the sources. Access to individual buildings or areas should be checked locally; no travel time or shared admission is implied.
Find Daqing Museum
大庆市博物馆 · 大庆市
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Daqing Petroleum Science & Technology Museum 大庆石油科技馆
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View guide →Sources & visit information
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Visitor information adapted and edited from Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Source revision 92141904.
Visitor information adapted and edited from Wikivoyage contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Background paragraphs translated and condensed from Wikipedia contributors, "大庆博物馆", Chinese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0. Source revision 94239461.