Dongguan Science & Technology Museum is a key project of the Dongguan Municipal Government infrastructure program. At an estimated cost of 200 million RMB by the municipal government, the 30,000 square meter building will house a 300-seat IMAX Dome theatre. The museum is scheduled to open early 2004.
Its major task is to organize popular science exhibition, a series of popular science lectures and forums, training activities for youth science and technology and the innovation of science and technology popularization and education activities, astronomy, Science Museum on the Internet and mobile technology promotion and publicity. Dongguan Science Museum has many popular science exhibition and event space, is to integrate scientific, intellectual and fun in one of important positions in the social science education. The major science facilities are: earthquake Science Hall: the rotatable globe has a diameter of 3 meters, on the globe through LED light show, allowing viewers to the national distribution of the seismic zone at a glance.