About the Museum

      The Changchun China Optical Science and Technology Museum (abbreviated as the Optical Science and Technology Museum) is the only national optical science and technology museum in China. It undertakes the functions of popularizing optical knowledge, displaying the history of optical development, exhibiting achievements in optical science and technology, and promoting cooperation and exchange in optical science and technology. The theme of the Changchun China Optical Science and Technology Museum is “The Light of Science and Technology Illuminates the Future.” Its positioning reflects public welfare and service orientation; scientific and educational value; popular and accessible nature; interest and interactivity; contemporaneity and innovation; and international openness.

     On August 29, 2007, four academicians—Wang Daheng, Ding Henggao, Zhou Bingkun, and Mu Guoguang—jointly sent a letter to Premier Wen Jiabao, proposing “Suggestions on the Establishment of the China Optical Science and Technology Museum.” Upon Premier Wen’s instruction, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved t...