我国古生物遗址博物馆的现状及展望

Current Situation and Prospect of Paleontological Site Museums in China

古生物遗址博物馆是非常重要的一类自然博物馆,能够真实地记录地球重大的生命演化事件。我国目前建立了很多以古生物为主题的国家地质公园,在其重要的化石地点建设了各具特色的遗址博物馆,对化石及其遗址的保护起到了积极的作用,但是还存在不少问题,包括化石的自然风化和有效保护等等。如何建设一个能展示地球生命辉煌历史、进行科普教育,又能有效地保护这些重大生命事件的化石记录的遗址博物馆,是目前面临的严峻挑战。

Paleontological Site Museum is a very important kind of natural history museum,which can truly record major life evolution events on the earth.Thus far,China has established many national geoparks focusing on paleontology,and built distinctive site museums in their important fossil sites,which has played a positive role in the protection of fossils and their sites.However,there are still some problems need to be solved,including natural weathering and effective protection of fossils.How to build a site museum that can display the glorious history of life on the earth,carry out popular science education,also effectively protect the fossil records of these major life events is a severe challenge we are facing now.