The Yixing Science Museum is located in Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. It is a benchmark science popularization venue at the county level in southern Jiangsu Province, with a total construction area of 12000 square meters and a permanent exhibition hall area of 5200 square meters. It is equipped with a science popularization cinema and a maker workshop. Free real name reservation for venues, open from Wednesday to Sunday, closed for operation and maintenance on Monday and Tuesday, radiating to surrounding counties and cities in southern Jiangsu. It is a representative project of county-level science popularization venue construction.
The venue is equipped with basic exploration exhibition hall, pottery culture and technology exhibition hall, ecological environment exhibition hall, life science exhibition hall, children's science playground, and temporary thematic exhibition hall. The Basic Exploration Exhibition Hall showcases a complete set of classic electromechanical interactive exhibits in mechanics, acoustics, optics, and electromagnetics; The Ceramic Culture and Technology Exhibition Hall is the core feature of this museum, focusing on Yixing purple clay and showcasing the principles of pottery making technology and material mineral science; The ecological environment exhibition hall focuses on the theme of ecological protection in the Taihu Lake Lake basin; The Life Science Exhibition Hall explains popular science knowledge about the human body and biology; The children's science playground is divided into exploration zones based on age groups; The temporary exhibition hall regularly introduces provincial-level exhibition updates. The Maker Workshop offers a unique practical course that combines ceramic art with scientific and technological innovation.
The venue fully excavates the local resources of purple clay to create differentiated research and learning products, and accepts a large number of research and learning groups from inside and outside the province. Regularly carry out scientific experiment shows, science popularization lectures, and youth science and technology innovation competitions, and open science and technology research camps during winter and summer vacations. The science popularization caravan goes deep into township schools to carry out mobile science popularization, while exporting operational and construction experience to other county-level science popularization venues in China.
During the rainy season in southern Jiangsu, the humidity is high. The operation and maintenance team takes measures to prevent moisture in exhibitions, carries out daily inspections and quarterly maintenance procedures, establishes equipment failure records, and promptly replaces damaged components. Yixing Science Museum deeply integrates local characteristic industrial culture with modern science popularization, providing a reference model for the construction of county-level science museums in China.
Shanghai Inertia Automation Co., Ltd. participated in the production of some interactive exhibitions and customization of core components at this venue.