Linquan Science Museum, located in Linquan County, Fuyang, Anhui Province, is a key science popularization venue at the county level in northern Anhui. With a large population base in Linquan, the venue undertakes the important task of science popularization for millions of people in the county. The venue is equipped with permanent exhibition halls, children's science playgrounds, science popularization classrooms, and dozens of interactive science popularization exhibition items, covering topics such as sound and light mechanics, life and health, and emergency safety science popularization.
The proportion of rural areas in northern Anhui counties is high, and the greatest value of venues is to fill the gap in popular science resources in populous counties. Many rural children first come into contact with interactive science exhibitions at the Linquan Science Museum. The safety emergency section is a key exhibition item, simulating fire escape and earthquake experiences, and conducting safety education and research for primary and secondary schools throughout the county. The venue sets up science popularization classrooms and regularly conducts science and technology small-scale production public welfare courses.
The venue is open to the public for free reservation, and local primary and secondary schools are organizing large-scale group visits. At the same time, the science popularization caravan rushed to various township schools in Linquan, delivering exhibitions to rural campuses to solve the practical problem of inconvenient access for rural children to visit the city. County level science museums generally have limited budgets, and Linquan Science Museum actively seeks exhibition resources from provincial and municipal science associations to update exhibition content at a lower cost.
Many populous counties in China have relatively scarce science popularization resources, and the Linquan Science Museum is a typical example. The venue does not pursue the standard of super large luxury construction, but is based on the actual needs of the county and serves a large number of young people. Many counties around northern Anhui are planning the construction of science popularization venues, and the exhibition items configuration and operation service model of Linquan Science Museum have strong reference value. As a grassroots science popularization platform, it truly enables children in counties with a population of millions to receive high-quality scientific enlightenment education nearby, playing an irreplaceable role in improving the scientific literacy of the entire population in the county.