Cijin Shell Museum

The Cijin Shell Museum (traditional Chinese: 旗津貝殼博物館; simplified Chinese: 旗津贝壳博物馆; Hanyu Pinyin: Qíjīn Bèiké Bówùguǎn; Tongyong Pinyin: Cíjin Bèiké Bówùguǎn) is a museum in Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Cijin Shell Museum
旗津貝殼博物館
LocationCijin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Coordinates22°36′04.6″N 120°16′27.1″E
Typemuseum

Architecture

The museum building occupies the top floor of the white, gray-blue and light blue building. The ground floor of the building is the Cijin Seaside Park tourist service center.[1][2]

Exhibition

The museum houses more than 200 kinds of shrimps and crabs specimens as well as more than 2,000 kinds of shellfish specimens, including three kinds of 'living fossil' Nautilus.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Qijin". Taiwan, the Heart of Asia. 25 August 2021. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. "Cijin Shell Gallery". Kaohsiung Travel. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.


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