The Science Museum in Luoyang is a well-established city level science popularization venue in the Central Plains region, located in Jianxi District, Luoyang. It is a public institution and covers an area of 9324 square meters, with a building area of 10690 square meters and a usable exhibition hall area of 6300 square meters. It is open to the public from Wednesday to Sunday and is a public welfare free science popularization venue. The exhibition hall is equipped with basic science, life science, disaster prevention science popularization, and youth innovation exhibition areas, with a large number of classic interactive science exhibitions.
Luoyang has a rich historical heritage, and the venue attempts to combine ancient technology with modern science, showcasing ancient astronomy and ancient machinery, and transforming technological achievements in Luoyang's history into popular science content, which is a major feature of the venue. The disaster prevention and avoidance exhibition area is very popular among schools and undertakes a large number of safety themed research and learning activities.
The venue is rooted in the Central Plains, serving primary and secondary schools in Luoyang, and regularly conducting science popularization lectures, technology competitions, and science popularization activities on campus. As a long-standing science popularization base in Luoyang, we have been continuously carrying out nationwide science popularization work for many years. The science popularization caravan travels to various counties under the jurisdiction of Luoyang, bringing science popularization to students in county towns and rural areas.
The Central Plains province has a large population, and the reception pressure for science museums at the municipal level is very high. Luoyang Science Museum relies on existing venues, continuously optimizes activity content, compensates for the funding pressure of exhibitions iteration, actively introduces external temporary exhibitions, and updates exhibition experiences. Luoyang is not only an ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, but also a modern industrial city. The science museum combines historical ancient technology with modern scientific knowledge. For a large number of historical and cultural cities in the Central Plains, the exhibition items planning of Luoyang Science Museum provides a reference idea: integrating the local brilliant ancient scientific and technological civilization into the modern science popularization exhibition hall, allowing the audience to understand both history and science at the same time.