Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum

The Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum, located in Guangming District, Shenzhen, opened on May 1, 2025. It features seven major zones, including permanent exhibition areas, science cinemas, and innovation practice zones, offering immersive digital experiences and educational exhibits.

Planning your visit

The Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum opened in May 2025 in Guangming District, and it is built to match the city's self-image: Shenzhen went from fishing villages to a technology metropolis of over 17 million people within four decades, and the museum presents science through that lens — innovation, digital civilisation and future technologies rather than natural history or classical physics.

Seven zones cover permanent exhibitions, science cinemas and innovation practice areas where visitors work with technologies rather than watching demonstrations. The emphasis falls on communication technology, computing, artificial intelligence, space and the industries Shenzhen actually contains, which gives it a distinctly contemporary character compared with older science museums.

Being new, practical routines are still settling, and advance reservation is required as with most Chinese public museums. The Guangming location is well outside the central districts, so travel time is a real factor — the metro reaches it but the journey is long from Futian or Luohu.

Bookable options include entry tickets with the reservation handled, guided tours, and formats bundling entry with practical guidance on navigating the museum's zones. For visitors interested in how China presents its technological ambitions to its own public, this is a more revealing museum than its subject matter suggests. Current availability is shown below.