National Natural History Museum, Beijing 北京国家自然博物馆
The National Natural History Museum stands west of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It began as the Central Natural History Museum, planned in the early years of the People's Republic, was later called the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and took its present name recently. Its collections cover fossils, plants, animals and anthropology, and its displays of dinosaurs and other fossils are the best known.
