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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 27, 2024 shows exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A tourist takes photos of an exhibit at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member introduces exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists view exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists view exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 27, 2024 shows an exhibit at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists view animal specimens at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists view exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists enter the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-BEIJIANG MUSEUM (CN)

(240127) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 27, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tourists view exhibits at the Beijiang Museum in north China's Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2024. The century-old Beijiang Museum was founded by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The museum has collected more than 200,000 specimens of animals, plants, ancient humans, rocks and minerals. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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A century-old museum documents specimens, history

STORY: A century-old museum documents specimens, history DATELINE: May 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Beijiang Museum 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GU LI, Docent, Beijiang Museum STORYLINE: With more than 20,000 rare specimens of hairy rhinoceros, wild donkey skeletons and fossils unearthed in north China on display, the collection left by French Catholic Jesuit priest and naturalist Paul Emile Licent (1876-1952) a century ago is well preserved in the museum that he built in north China's Tianjin Municipality. The three-story Beijiang Museum, which is the predecessor of Tianjin Natural History Museum, was founded in 1914 when it was among the finest museums in the world and the accolades continued into the 1920s and 1930s. The century-old museum was reopened to the public in 2016 after 78 years of closure. After the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, the Beijiang Museum was closed in 1938 when Licent was calle