SNHM Organizes a Special Event "Playing with ‘Wild Children’" on June 1

To celebrate the 74th International Children's Day (June 1), during the Shanghai Science Festival, under the guidance of the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, SNHM organized a special event, "Playing with ‘Wild Children’" on June 1, 2024. The organizer worked in concert with dozens of co-creators such as Shanghai Youth Activity Center, Shanghai Children's Art Theater and SNHM schools to create an online and offline "June 1" Children's Day themed carnival on day and night, supported by resources from all sectors, to allow children to enjoy the wildness, beauty and fun of nature.

In the afternoon of the same day, SNHM launched the first phase of "Future Curators' Views" child-friendly theme activities. The future curators interpreted their proposals on the spot, looked into the future construction of museums in respect of featured venues, children's perspective, green environmental protection, science and technology intelligence, etc., and had a warm discussion with the bigwigs to promote the construction of child-friendly museums together.

The "Wild Child" Museum Night on June 1 provided children with colorful scientific experiences and artistic performances. In the evening, offline activities of the original popular science video brand "Snail: Paleontology Restaurant" of SNHM were launched for the first time, allowing viewers to learn about paleontology in a relaxed and humorous atmosphere. In addition, Shanghai Children's Art Theater brought people a lively performance in the form of "science + art" with percussion instruments such as African drums, hand discs and rhythmic sand balls.

The Wild Delight Fair featured a variety of interactive experiences, including an interactive explanation of "Dongtan" and a natural hand-making course at the "Wild Child Creative Workshop." The classic game of "Building a House" is designed to evoke fond memories of the people's childhood and arouse their nostalgia and love for old-fashioned life. In addition, the national intangible cultural heritage program "Shanghai Colored Lanterns" uses traditional production techniques to simplify the skeleton, allowing participants to complete their own small works of intangible cultural heritage, and experience the charm of China's outstanding traditional culture. The Shanghai intangible cultural heritage program "Shanghai Paper Tearing" demonstrated the skills of using hands instead of knives and tearing instead of cutting, which have been passed down for thousands of years.

Zujia Biological Museum at Fudan University joined hands with visitors to make their own owl ornaments and DIY animals. The "Little Explainers" from the ZiZhu Kindergarten attached to East China Normal University brought their own butterfly exhibition into SNHM to share their discoveries with children interested in butterflies.