I. An introduction to the museum of CDUT
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology was founded in 1960. With the concern of the administration and the aid of the faculty, the museum has acquired quite great progress in the 41 years through the efforts of all the employees. Now, the museum has evolved from an exhibition hall for the teachers and students of the university itself into the biggest geological natural museum in West China and among all the universities in China, which is known at home and abroad.
The museum has ten exhibition-halls or rooms and two outdoor-platforms, with a 3,000-plus square meter exhibition area. The museum has abundant collections. Among 60,000 specimens, many are of world-class and nation-class, such as over thirty rare dinosaur-specimens whose number and kind rank first in all the Chinese university museums. Mamenchisaurus, which is honoured as the most important treasure of the museum, is 22-meter long. It is not only the biggest dinosaur fossil in Asia but also the longest neck dinosaur fossil in the world.
The Museum of Chengdu University of Technology was the dinosaur study and development center of the former Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, undertaking research programs of various levels and thus getting such awards as the second prize of national natural science, the first and second prizes of science and technology respectively from the Ministry of Land and Resources and Sichuan Province. In addition, the museum has been actively conducting international cooperation and intercourse. Each year as many as a hundred foreign guests come to visit the museum. The dinosaur fossils have been exhibited in Japan and Taiwan.
Besides serving the teaching and scientific researches of this university, the museum attaches great importance to the popular science education of teenagers, and has acquire marked achievement. So far, the museum has been conferred the titles of "The National Popular Science Education Base", "The National Teenager Science and Technology Education Base", "The Innovated Action Education Base of Chinese youth ", "The Popular Science Education Base of the Chinese Palaeontology Society ", "Sichuan Popular Science Education Base", "The Teenager Science and Technology Education Base of Sichuan ", "Sichuan Patriotism Education Base ", "Chengdu Teenager Science and Technology Education Base", and "Chengdu Patriotism Education Base" by Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, National Youth Union, The Government of Sichuan Province, The Government of Chengdu City, and the Chinese Palaeontology Society.
II. Work and duties of the museum
The museum is the center of this university of collecting, studying and exhibiting specimens of palaeontology and rock and mineral; furthermore, it is a vocational department that serves the teaching and scientific research of this university.
The concrete duties of the museum
1. Collecting varied geological specimens of Palaeontology, rock, mineral, gem and ornamental stones and raise the amount and quality of collections.
2. Making scientific mending, processing, appraising and researching of the varied geological specimens, and devote major efforts to developing the study of dinosaur fossils.
3. Engage in numbering, founding archives, collecting and preserving about varied geological specimens.
4. Utilizing the collections to build different kinds professional exhibition room so as to serve the teaching and researching and to improve the students' synthetic quality.
5. Building various kinds of popular science exhibition rooms to sponsor popular science exhibitions and summer camps, carrying out education task of popular science and patriotism actively.
6. Receiving leaders of different levels, counterparts, and people of all walks coming to visit the museum, and giving wide publicity to our university and raising the popularity of this university though the service.
7. Making great efforts to transfer the achievements of the dinosaur research, strengthening recuperation of the dinosaur fossils and replication of the model, and sponsoring dinosaur exhibitions at home and abroad to maximize social and economic benefit of the dinosaur fossils.
8. Carrying out multi-way communication and cooperation to raise the popularity of the museum.
9. Promoting the application of modern technology to the operations of the museum. Strengthening digital construction to provide communal resource for the national modern telnet-education by sufficiently utilizing specimens and information of the museum and realizing share of resources.
III. Organization of the museum
Currently, there are twenty employees in the museum, including two professors, three associate professors and ten engineers. Led by a curator and a vice-curator, the museum has five sections.
Scientific Education Section - responsible for the scientific education and everyday visit and reception.
Collection section - responsible for the management of the whole exhibits and collection of the museum.
Museum office - responsible for dealing with routines of the museum, holding meetings and activities of the museum and responsible for external communication as well as reception.
Research section - responsible for the study of minerals, rocks, and Palaeontology, and for the recuperation, installation and moulding of dinosaur fossils.
Network information section - responsible for the digital construction, network maintenance, information collection and issuance and multimedia operation.
IV. Heads and their contact
Curator£ºProf. Li Kui
Tel.£º028-89039088¡¢84078990
Email£ºlikui@cdut.edu.cn
Vice-curator£ºProf. Lin Li
Tel.£º028-84077307
Email£ºlinli@cdut.edu.cn
Director of Collection Section£ºLiu Yaping
Tel.£º028-84077579
Director of Office£ºWang Zhengxin
Tel.£º028-84077990
Director of Scientific Education Section£ºChen Zhigang
Tel.£º028-84077756
Director of Research Section£ºLi Kui£¨part time£©
Tel.£º028-84078930
Director of Network Information Section£ºLu Yuan
Tel.£º028-84077579
Email£ºluy@octopus.cdut.edu.cn