Wuhan University Animal Specimen Museum , is one of the oldest, biggest specimen museum in our country. It was first founded in 1929. Untile present time, totally collected 556 kinds of fish, 98 kinds of amphibian, 126 kinds of acrawl, 1300 kinds of birds, and 175 kinds of mammalia. And also some typical specimens, such as duckbill kangaroo, kiwi, African and Australian ostrich, etc. Have nearly 700 square meter showroom and workroom. Collected specimens number and scale is top among the whole country.

    Animal specimen museum play an important roll on teaching, researching and the promotion of science. Not only satisfy teaching and research needs of all university and schools, in recent 10 years, the museum puts science promulgation and animal protection as the key work, let the citizens and students to know more about the nature, and to know that our country is wide and has many precious kinds of animals. In recent 10 years, some leader of other countries and leaders of our country came to the museum. At the same time, nearly 30,000 people came to the museum.

    Also the museum joined some anual activities such as "Birds Week", "Scince Week", let the citizens gain the knowledge of protecting birds and animals; joined many television programs about animals; gave lectures to animal protect tipstaff, answered newspapers consulation about animals, gave students lectures about animals. Also, the museum head Mr. Tang Zhaozi was Jianan district Education Department Science Consultent.