Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2010 shows workers inspect the fish in Haichang Polar Ocean Park in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [Xinhua]

China's largest polar marine museum opened Thursday in north China's port city of Tianjin, displaying thousands of rare polar marine species from more than ten countries.

With a floor space of 47,000 square meters, the Tianjin Polar Marine Museum has more than 2,000 polar marine species from Russia, Canada, Australia and other countries on display.

The museum includes a 30-meter long "touch pond," which gives visitors the chance to "touch and feel" a variety of fish, shrimps, crabs, shellfishes, marine algae and coral. Also, the museum has a performance venue capable of accommodating an audience of 2,000.

The polar marine museum is part of a "polar marine world" project of Haichang (Group) Co., Ltd., which is still under construction. The investment for the whole project is 3.6 billion yuan (about US$538 million).

Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2010 shows a worker trains white whales in Haichang Polar Ocean Park in north China's Tianjin Municipality. [Xinhua]

(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2010)