In addition to the sea, Qingdao also has the Hisense Discovery Center
Where to take your kids? Hisense Discovery Center! Just like falling into the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland, here you will discover a wonderful new world! 10,000 square meters of innovative experience space, 500+ interactive experience exhibits, integrating science museum, natural museum and museum. From 3-year-old cute kids to handsome teenagers, everyone can understand science here and broaden their horizons. Learn while playing, play while learning, explore and fall in love with science!
Adjacent to May Fourth Square and located in the core business district of Shinan, it is a new landmark of Qingdao. It was once shortlisted as the top 3 popular science and technology museums in China and was praised by CCTV as an element that enriches the beautiful life of Qingdao Residents. It is the Hisense Discovery Center, a new landmark that must be visited in Qingdao after the mountain, sea and cultural landscapes.
Hisense Discovery Center is located at No. 11 Jiangxi Road, Shinan District. It was invested and built by Hisense Group and independently operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary Qingdao Hisense Technology Culture Management Co., Ltd. It integrates a science museum, a natural history museum and a museum. Adhering to the concept of "success comes from curiosity" and its mission is to "protect the curiosity and childlike innocence of millions of families through exploration". It is a new type of science museum in China that achieves age segmentation, knowledge segmentation and regional segmentation.
Since its official opening on September 28, 2019, Hisense Discovery Center has always insisted on creating a high-quality science and technology venue with Hisense characteristics to explore new science and technology models with "curiosity". It has become one of the attractions for parent-child tours and study tours in Qingdao, and has won many special cultural and tourism business cards such as "National Science and Technology Education Base", "Shandong Science and Technology Education Base", "Discover New Qingdao and Experience New Beauty", and "Tourism Experience Projects Favored by Tourists in 2021".
1. Little Scientists’ Happy Planet: Immersive Science Theme Park
More three-dimensional than books, more open than classrooms, and more attractive than toys. Hisense Discovery Center has a construction area of 10,000 square meters and five permanent exhibition halls: Science Enlightenment Hall, Science Discovery Hall, Natural Exploration Hall, World Consumer Electronics Museum, and Hisense History and Culture Hall. There are more than 500 exhibits/items on display.
Different from the traditional science and technology museum, this is more like a science theme park, cherishing curiosity, emphasizing active exploration, and interesting interaction. Among all the exhibits, more than 200 are interactive and experiential exhibits. Just press the start button and science will be presented in front of you, allowing children to learn knowledge in a pleasant play. From "Where do I come from" to "wind power generation" to "chicken hatching", every interaction will make people exclaim in wonder. Many of these exhibits are rare, and 23 of them are even domestic firsts.
Combining simulation landscaping with textbook design, you can learn 651 knowledge points about traveling around the world here. "See clearly, touch, smell, and remember firmly", Hisense Discovery Center makes abstract scientific knowledge really "live".
1. Science Museum: From Enlightenment to Discovery
The Discovery Center has two science museums suitable for children of different ages.
1F, 2F Science Enlightenment Hall:It is mainly aimed at children aged 3-12 years old. It absorbs and draws on the world's advanced science concepts. Through immersive environment design and more than 100 interactive exhibits developed originally, such as Bubble World, Wonderland Space, and Gear Park, children can move from passive knowledge transfer to active experience and exploration. It covers core exhibits such as human life science, lever principle, inertia, direct and reflected light, and Rubik's Cube Robot. Even real functional vehicles (fire trucks, harvesters, bulldozers) and helicopters are placed in the venue to stimulate children's thirst for knowledge and curiosity.
3F Science Discovery Museum:It is mainly aimed at all ages over 8 years old, closely combines the knowledge points of physics and mathematics in primary and secondary schools, takes the wonderful basic scientific phenomena as the exhibition content, and has more than 100 scientific activity exhibits around acoustics, mathematics, mechanics, electromagnetism, and optics. It covers Newton's first law, second law, Bernoulli's principle, visual persistence, and Mobius strip classic knowledge.
2. Nature Museum: Simulation Landscape + Indoor Zoo
The Nature Exploration Hall is located on the fourth floor. It is themed "Natural Science Exploration" and closely integrates knowledge from biology and geography textbooks for primary and secondary schools. There are six permanent exhibition areas: desert, plain, rainforest, grassland, ocean, and polar regions. For example, in the desert area, you can see the simulated landscaping of the Yadan landform in Xinjiang Ghost Town. Through the introduction of the global desert area and related geographical knowledge, natural phenomena in the desert, and active animal and plant displays, children can learn about the desert in all aspects.
The popular chick hatching exhibit allows children to witness the entire process from a fertilized egg to the birth of a chick. In addition to marveling at the magic of life, they can also adopt a chick as a cute pet. There are also groundhogs that can dig holes and make emojis, cute little hedgehogs and chinchillas, as well as various wonderful insects, bearded dragons, corn snakes, etc. More than 100 kinds of animals and plants plus simulated landscaping make people feel like they are there.
(III) China's leading home appliance museum: filling the gap in the knowledge of home appliance genealogy
World Consumer Electronics Museum:There are more than 200 home appliance collections on display, covering display, washing, refrigeration and communication technologies, including the world's first TV, refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine and even Bell Labs' mobile phone. In addition, in terms of display technology, in addition to the world's first TV, it also includes the first black-and-white TV, color TV, transistor TV, portable TV and other home appliance collections. It is also a consumer electronics museum with the most complete categories and rich exhibits in China.
Hisense History and Culture Museum:Hisense was founded in 1969. This venue covers the development history and important milestones of Hisense since its founding 53 years ago. By restoring the history of Hisense's corporate culture, core values and technological evolution, it also simultaneously displays the development and changes of the Republic's eldest son industry.
2. Hilarious interactions, hardcore enlightenment, and a full sense of scientific ritual
Providing a place for curiosity to explore, Hisense Discovery Center uses endless creativity to enrich the way to protect curiosity. Based on conventional exhibitions, Hisense Discovery Center continues to expand the boundaries of science popularization by linking culture, art and science, innovating science popularization models, making scientific exploration more interesting, and creating countless wonderful moments for tourists.
For example, through story implantation and interactive design, hard-core scientific knowledge is transformed into a good show. The original "Science Show: The Adventures of Dr. Harry", "Mechanics Show: Journey Through Time and Space", "Chemistry Show: Exploring the Magic House", etc., not only bring joy to the whole family, but also allow tourists to gain knowledge in laughter.
There is also the "Big Name Lecture" led by expert professors in the field of science, the "Curiosity Classroom" independently developed in combination with curriculum standards and hot topics, a fun interactive corner with animals at close range, the holiday-limited "Harry's Wonderful Night", the theme science exhibitions "Hisense's B-Side" and "Hisense Laser Scene Exhibition·Light Cube"... Each one has become a reason for everyone to love the Hisense Discovery Center, and has made every friend who has visited the Hisense Discovery Center fall in love with science.
3. "Science +" continues to advance, unlocking new experiences in quality exploration
"In the 'double reduction' of education, do a good job in adding scientific education." Hisense Discovery Center is child-centered and creates an experiential learning method of "science +".
From half-day camps, single-day camps to winter and summer camps, Hisense Discovery Center continues to segment users, integrating the value of popular science with the fun of mobilizing participants, and linking basic courses with rich and tangible activities (exploration study manuals, science performances, experimental operations, science handwritten newspapers/travel notes, etc.), launching a series of high-quality study products that are well received by the market and users.
For example, the scientific reasoning camp "Harry's Detective Agency" with the characteristics of a drama game has been sold out almost every time since it was launched in May 2022. The one-day camp combines the background of detective stories and provides 7-12-year-old children with an immersive "solving a case" experience through clue collection, logical deduction, and scientific review, using scientific methods to let the evidence speak. Within a year, "Harry's Detective Agency" launched multiple scripts and adapted multiple holiday limited editions, constantly innovating gameplay and maintaining the freshness of new and old users.
Visit Hisense in Qingdao. Besides the blue sea, blue sky, red tiles and green trees, bring your kids to Hisense Discovery Center to unlock new experiences and new beauty in Qingdao!
