The Cijin Shell Museum () is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and th ...

Cijin District Cijin District (; Hokkien POJ: ''Kî-tin-khu'') is a district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, covering Cijin Island () and islands in the South China Sea. It is the second smallest district in Kaohsiung City after Yancheng District, with an area of ...

, Kaohsiung,

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

History

The original Cijin Shell Museum opened on September 11, 2000, on the second floor of the Cijin Seaside Park administration building. After the original museum became too small, the Kaohsiung City Government started building the new museum in 2009, opening it in October 2011.

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.

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 The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species ...

Opening Hours

The museum is open from 9AM to 5PM, from Tuesday to Saturday. The museum is closed on Mondays.

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