OUTLINE

The National Natural History Museum of China (NNHMC) is the only national, comprehensive natural history museum in China. On behalf of the nation, NNHMC conserves, researches, collects, interprets and exhibits natural objects as well as natural heritage of historical, scientific and artistic values.

EXHIBITION

The permanent exhibitions in the Beijing Museum of Natural History are mainly arranged according to the evolutionary trend of organisms,showing the Bio-diversity and its relationships with the environments and establishing a panorama of the emergence and development of the life on Earth.

RESEARCH

Beijing Museum of Natural History boasts a rigorous yet vigorous group of scientists who carry out research and investigations. The museum has been equipped with Zoological, Botanical and paleontological laboratories with advanced instruments and equipments. In recent years, scientists in our museum have accomplished many programs supported by the National Natural Science Foundation and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and published a number of scientific papers and works.

COLLECTION

The collections of Beijing Museum of Natural History include many extremely rare pieces, for example, the world-famous skull of Stegodon zdanskyi, 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, and the unique mummy fossil of dinosaurs in China.

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