Great improvement in the core collection

The "collection" of a museum can further bring out the significance of its collection and research for knowledge development. The collection itself symbolizes "knowledge." A museum preserves the collection in order to study and distribute its valuable knowledge. Therefore, exhibit and education are another two sensible and necessary functions of a museum. The contribution that a museum makes lies in the accumulation and development of the nowledge of its collection.

features of our Research & Collection

In the light of the significance of biodiversity and the urgency of knowledge development, the Museum has raised the objectives for its collection. Since 2004, it has become a policy of the Museum to increase more than 60,000 specimens every year. It is expected that the Museum's collection will exceed 1.2 million within 10 years. In 2003, for example, the Museum owned 34,847 specimens. An enormous increase was witnessed in 2004 when the total collections reached 68,651 pieces (please refer to the following tables). The rapid expansion of the collection symbolizes both the importance of biodiversity and the rapid improvement of the Museum's core capacity for knowledge dedicated to social contribution. If the Museum has enjoyed any minor achievement, it is jointly made by the staff of the collection and research departments. While the cultural education has to be implemented step by step, we are confident that the great improvement of our core abilities will certainly yield fruitful results in the future!

Great improvement in the core collection (pdf file)