Beijing Museum of Natural History

Local name北京自然博物馆
LocationBeijing, China

The Beijing Museum of Natural History is located at 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100050, and is the most popular natural history museum in China. It was founded in 1951 as the National Central Museum of Natural History, and its name was changed to the Beijing Museum of Natural History in 1962. The BMNH is the first large scale natural history museum created in China.The BMNH has total floor space of 24,000 square meters, of which 8,000 square meters are available for display and owns more than 200,000 specimens. The major display area is the Tian Jiabing Building. The collections include paleontology, ornithology, mammals and invertebrates, and include a major collection of dinosaur fossils and mounted skeletons. The BMNH also engages in significant scientific research in these areas.

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Opening hours

Mon: closed
Tue - Sun: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Admission

Free entry.

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Museum_of_Natural_History

Official Website http://www.bmnh.org.cn/

Address 126号 Tianqiao S St, Dongcheng, Beijing, China

Coordinates 39°52'54.815" N 116°23'37.334" E

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