Shenzhen Children's Palace

This guide to the Shenzhen Children's Palace traces the building's geometric towers back to the Soviet Union's Pioneer Palaces of the 1930s, grand public halls for after-school music, science and art, and to China's adoption of the model after 1949 under a strict condition on who could enter. It follows the building's own opening on June 1, 2004, and the sea hall, the ride-through exhibit on the history of energy, and the planetarium dome above them that stretches more than eighteen meters across the ceiling. It also traces the building's constructivist style back to revolutionary Russia, the same country that first dreamed up a palace for children.