Interesting Workshop "Experience making insect specimens"

VHO - To help children get acquainted with, learn about and love the natural world more, the Da Nang Museum held a workshop called "Experience making insect specimens".

The workshop “Experience making insect specimens” is part of the event series “Listen to the cicadas - Enjoy the summer at the museum” at Da Nang Museum, held every Wednesday and Saturday, starting from June 25 and lasting until August 2025.

By participating in the Workshop , children will discover the hidden beauty of the insect world and the important role of insects in nature. In particular, they will have the opportunity to learn and experience the process of creating butterfly specimens with the right techniques and keeping their colors intact.

Danang Museum staff guide children at the Workshop

After experiencing making specimens by themselves, the children will receive the results after 3 days of drying. In addition to making butterfly specimens, the children will also discover and gain more knowledge about other rare insects such as beetles, cicadas, and dragonflies.

This is the first time the insect specimen making experience activity has been held at Da Nang Museum. The program, special in content and form, has attracted a large number of children and parents to register to participate.

At the same time, at the Da Nang Museum, the exhibition "Diverse colors of Vietnamese insects" will take place from June 22 to July 13, open to visitors for free.

Children make insect specimens by hand

The exhibition displays more than 150 photos and posters about insects, providing information about the diversity of insect species and their role in ecology as well as in human life such as pollination, decomposition, pest control, medicine and food.

Introduce basic applications of insects in life in medicine, food, art, biotechnology, integrate messages about climate change, pollution or factors affecting insect populations, and at the same time spread and raise people's awareness in protecting nature and biodiversity.

Source: https://baovanhoa.vn/van-hoa/thu-vi-workshop-trai-nghiem-lam-tieu-ban-con-trung-147035.html