| Tian Jin Natural History Museum began in 1914 with its original name “Musee Hoang-Ho Pai-Ho”. A French Priest biologist E. Lieent started the museum. He had worked in China for 25 years (1914-1938), during which he visited almost every corner of Northwest and North China. He found four sites where paleontology gathered. They are Yushe in Shanxi which is known for hipparion(三趾马)；Qingyang in Gansu which is known for mammal of late period of pleistocene；the Salawusu River in inner Mongolia and Nihewan in Hebei which are known for mammals in Pliocene. He had collected large amount of specimens including animals, plants, ores as well as paleontology and paleoanthropology. Then he builded the museum on Machangdao in TianJin, which occupied 2000m2. In 1952 Tianjin Municipal government took up the museum and gave it a new name of Tianjin People Science Museum. Up to then its collections had gone up to 200,000 items, which formed solid foundation for the museum. In 1956 the name of the museum was instead of Tianjin Natural History Museum. Tianjin municipal government rewarded the site where old “Musee Hoang-Ho Pai-Ho” located with “Cultural Relic Unit”.(Sunjingyun) | ||||
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| Original Address of Museum Hoang-Hopai-Ho (now located in the school yard of Tianjin Foreign Studies University –No. 117, MaChangRoad, He Xi District, Tianjin) | ||||
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| Original Outside view of 1959-1976 displaying room | Original Outside view of 1959-1976 displaying room | Reconstructed outside view of the displaying room since 1976 | ||
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“Musee Hoang-Hopai-Ho” initiator-E.Licent（1914~1938） |
Xiaocaiyu curator |
Heiyanchang vice-curator(1955---1984) |
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Changluonan curator |
Qixuhui curator(1979-1983) |
Chenxixin curator |
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