Top 10 Most Famous Butterfly Museums in the World

Dancing butterflies, as one of the most beautiful insects in nature, are often called "flying flowers". Museums with butterfly themes are even more fascinating, showing the colorful world of butterflies and the scientific knowledge and cultural stories behind them. This article will review the top ten most representative butterfly museums, including the Argentine Butterfly Museum, Huaxi Insect Museum, Jeju Butterfly Museum, and Chen Anming Butterfly Museum. Let's explore these unique museums with the editor!

1. Argentine Butterfly Museum

Address: San Miguel, Argentina

The Argentine Butterfly Museum is located in San Miguel, about 35 kilometers north of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. It is one of the largest butterfly museums in Argentina, with a collection of 200,000 butterfly specimens from all over the world. Founded by the famous Argentine biologist Andres Varga, the museum has become one of the most extensive butterfly museums in Latin America. The museum not only has exhibition halls to display rare specimens, but also is equipped with studios, laboratories, incubators, libraries and archives. It integrates research, education and exhibition, and is an ideal place to explore the world of butterflies.

2. Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum

Address: No. 1 Qingcheng Avenue, Qingchengshan Town, Dujiangyan City, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Chengdu Huaxi Insect Museum is located at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province. It is the first modern insect museum in China and one of the museums with the largest number of insect specimens in Asia. The museum houses more than 570,000 rare insect specimens from more than 40 countries on six continents around the world, many of which are unique in China. It is worth mentioning that the museum has a rich variety of butterfly specimens. There are more than 1,700 species of butterflies native to China alone, accounting for more than 95% of the known butterfly species in my country. The number of butterfly species collected is three times the total number of butterfly species in Europe. Therefore, the museum is recognized by the international academic community as the most complete collection of Chinese butterflies in the world. The New York Times and many other international media have praised it as "the largest insect museum in Asia."

3. Jeju Butterfly Museum

The Jeju Butterfly Museum is located in the PSYCHE WORLD theme park on Jeju Island, South Korea. PSYCHE means "butterfly" in Greek, and it is also the name of Cupid's wife in Greek mythology, symbolizing the combination of soul and beauty. As the largest butterfly museum in South Korea, the Jeju Butterfly Museum has a rich collection of more than 3,000 species and a total of more than 100,000 butterfly specimens, including a large number of endangered rare species. The museum displays in detail the living environment and living habits of various butterflies. It is an ideal place for traveling that combines science popularization and appreciation. It is very suitable for families to visit and enjoy a wonderful journey in the butterfly world.

4. Wuhan Chen Anming Butterfly Museum

Address: Jiangcheng No. 1 Cultural Industry Park, Gutian 4th Road, Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province

Wuhan Chen Anming Butterfly Museum is located in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. It is one of the largest private museums in China and the first insect museum in Hubei Province. It is currently open to the public free of charge. The museum has a rich collection of butterfly species, covering many well-known domestic and foreign species. There are more than 1,300 domestic butterfly species collected in the museum, accounting for more than half of the known species of butterflies in my country, and there are more than 600 foreign butterfly species, with a total number of exhibits as high as 200,000.

Among them, the museum's treasures include the Peruvian national butterfly, the Goddess of Light, which is known as the "most beautiful butterfly in the world" and is worth up to 380,000 yuan per piece, and the Russian national butterfly, the dead leaf butterfly, which symbolizes victory in the anti-fascist war. In addition, the museum also exhibits a large number of "national butterflies" from all over the world, which is a must-visit for butterfly culture enthusiasts and science enthusiasts.

5. Saint-Quentin Butterfly Museum

The Saint-Quentin Butterfly Museum is located in the historic city of Saint-Quentin in northern France. The city is famous for its long history and strong artistic atmosphere, and attracts a large number of tourists because of its many historical sites and colorful cultural activities. And this museum, which has a collection of more than 600,000 butterflies and other insect specimens, is one of the highlights.

The butterflies exhibited in the museum are rich and diverse, each with its own characteristics, colorful and different shapes. Among them, some butterflies have wingspans that even exceed the palm of an adult, while some miniature butterfly species are only the size of a fingernail. The museum also collects rare butterfly species from all over the world, many of which are endangered or listed on the protection list. They are rare natural treasures with great ornamental and research value. This museum is undoubtedly a must-visit place for insect lovers and natural science lovers, full of exploration and surprises.

6. Simei Butterfly Museum

Address: Yunnan Province

Simei Butterfly Museum is located in Yunnan National Village. It is the first Sino-foreign joint venture butterfly museum in China and one of the most important butterfly museums established in the early days of my country. The museum was founded by Wu Yun, a master of medicine, in 1992 and joined the China Association of Natural Science Museums. Since its establishment, the museum has actively carried out butterfly collection, research, breeding and export work around the world, making important contributions to butterfly scientific research and cultural communication.

At the 1999 World Horticultural Exposition, Wu Yun led the museum to exhibit a wealth of butterfly specimens and works, allowing Chinese butterflies to shine on the international stage for the first time and attracting global attention. At that time, CCTV reported the entire event, making the Smer Butterfly Museum a pioneer institution in promoting the Chinese butterfly industry to the world.

7. La Ceiba Butterfly and Insect Museum

La Ceiba Butterfly and Insect Museum is located in La Ceiba, Atlantida Province, Honduras. It is a privately funded non-profit museum. The museum houses more than 17,000 butterfly, moth and other insect specimens from 139 countries around the world. Among them, there are more than 6,000 butterfly specimens, most of which were collected in Honduras, with local characteristics.

Most of the collections in this museum come from the private collection of the owner, Mr. Robert Lehmann. He spent 30 years collecting insect specimens everywhere and devoted his life to this, aiming to show these natural treasures to the public.

8. Saint-Tropez Butterfly Museum

The Saint-Tropez Butterfly Museum is located in the town of Saint-Tropez in the Var department of France, adjacent to the famous Saint-Tropez defensive castle. This museum was founded by the painter Dany Lartigue and is one of the most representative butterfly museums in France. The museum houses thousands of butterfly specimens, including rare species, such as the black silk butterfly produced in Mercantour National Park and the monarch butterfly in Africa, which are of great ornamental and research value.

The museum's exhibition method is unique, integrating exquisite butterfly specimens into colorful paintings, as if letting butterflies dance on the canvas, showing the perfect fusion of art and nature.

9. Zhongshan Butterfly Museum

Address: 3rd Floor, Jinsha New City Exhibition Center, Shalang Jingang Avenue, Xiqu Street, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province

Zhongshan Butterfly Museum is located in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. The exhibition area is more than 2,000 square meters. The museum has a rich collection and displays more than 600 species of Chinese native butterfly specimens, accounting for more than 50% of the species recorded in the "Chinese Butterfly Book". At the same time, it also displays more than 1,000 species of butterflies, carabids, moths, etc. from all over the world, totaling more than 20,000 precious specimens.

The museum has a collection of many rare butterfly species, such as the Golden Swallowtail, the Chinese Tiger Swallowtail, the Chinese Dead Leaf, and more than 100 species, which are breathtaking. In addition, the exhibition hall also specially exhibits rare butterfly wing art paintings, which were carefully created by Mr. Liu Jinghuai, a well-known butterfly collector in Wuhan, over a period of more than ten years and more than 30,000 butterfly wings.

10. Chinese Tiger Swallowtail Museum

Address: 260 meters north of the intersection of Yunshui Road and Tanghu Line, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

The Chinese Tiger Swallowtail Museum is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is a special butterfly museum integrating butterfly special exhibitions, popular science teaching and creative product displays. As the first professional butterfly museum in China and the first natural museum with the theme of "Chinese Tiger Swallowtail", it fully displays the rich content about Tiger Swallowtail.

The museum exhibits a large number of pictures, literature, popular science images and research results related to Tiger Swallowtail research, and brings together research materials on Tiger Swallowtail from many countries in the world. In addition, it also collects more than 400 rare butterfly specimens from around the world, including Chinese Tiger Swallowtail.

The ranking of the world's top ten butterfly museums is mainly based on the scale of each major museum or the rarity of exhibits. For reference only, if you have any questions, please comment and communicate at the end.

A list of butterfly graffiti on various streets

(Silkeborg, Denmark)

(Cancun, Mexico)

(Cranes-Montana, Switzerland)

The huge butterfly rests on the wall of a high floor. Whether it is the pattern style, the texture of the wings, or the shadows and blank spaces, they are exactly the same as the butterfly specimens exhibited in the museum:

(Hyvinka, Finland)

(Vienna, Austria)

(Indianapolis, USA)

(Bogota, Colombia)

(Las Vegas, USA)

(Thionville, France)

(Zaragoza, Spain)

(Turin, Italy)

(Dallas, USA)

(Guayaquil, Ecuador)

If you have the opportunity to visit the above places, don’t forget to take a photo with these giant and beautiful creatures~

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