四川科技馆 — Attraction in Chengdu

I don't know who in their right mind is writing these positive reviews, as the museum is awful. Lots of empty spaces, unmanned and faulty interactive exhibits, lots of stuff that was faded, old, damaged and plain broken - one display looked like it had fire damage. The only thing that appeared to have been erected in the past few years was a Makerbot 3D printer in a display cabinet and some posters outlining the latest Chinese five-year plan. It was packed with schoolkids who seemed to find it slightly more entertaining than I did, but they were far more interested in myself and their packed lunches than anything on display. This place had free entry and even then I'm not sure it...

The Sichuan Museum of Science and Technology is located directly opposite to Tianfu Square. It has a huge and spectacular building and we came by here at night and it is beautifully lit and looks grands and lovely with the lightings. Standing in the front is the "signature" statue of Chairman Mao.

It covers an area of 60,000 sqm and there are 600 exhibits distributed over about 20 exhibition halls on four floors. This huge four-storey museum is filled with interactive exhibits about science, aerodynamics, space, mathematics, robotics and physics.

However, when we were there, the museum had already closed for the day. We will visit it next time when we...

Trying to enter as a foreigner is near impossible as a Chinese ID is required and/or the scanning process outside is a nightmare. A bit of help would've been nice. The scanning process is not needed as the place looked empty. The security outside were not helpful and had a bad attitude. Just ruined my experience of Chengdu as I spent 2 hours trying to get in. Locals were nice enough to try and...