All are formal channels, from donations. Beijing museum of natural history is a large natural history museum, mainly engaged in specimen collection, scientific research and scientific popularization in the fields of paleontology, animals and plants, anthropology and so on.

There are more than 65,438+10,000 cultural relics, fossils and specimens in the collection. The Natural History Museum has four basic exhibitions and a dinosaur World Expo. The collection of large-scale whole ancient mammal fossils ranks second in the world, and the ancient elephant fossils and dinosaur fossils of the Yellow River are well-known at home and abroad.

It was named as "National Youth Science and Technology Education Base" and "Beijing Patriotism Education Base" by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and Beijing Municipal Governments, as "Science and Peace Education Base" by China Organizing Committee of UNESCO, and as a national first-class museum by National Cultural Heritage Administration in 2009.

Beijing museum of natural history is located in tianqiao district, on the central axis of Cheng Nan, the capital, with its back to Tiantan Park, a world cultural heritage, and facing the modern Tianqiao Theater, which has a special cultural environment. Its predecessor was the Preparatory Office of the Central Natural Museum, which was established in April of 195 1. 1962 was officially named Beijing Museum of Natural History.

2065438+September 2006, beijing museum of natural history was selected as the "first batch of 20th century architectural heritage in China".