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Author: Jason Quinn
Author: Jason Quinn
The Beijing Museum of Natural History is the biggest natural history museum in China. Located at 126 Tianqiao Nan Dajie, Chongwen, the museum is housed in a cavernous 1950's building.
The collection of the Beijing Museum of Natural History is arranged into three groups: zoology, paleontology and botany. Together, there are 5,000 specimens for you to browse through.
I would say that the Paleontology Hall is the most fascinating. That's if you are into dinosaurs, as many visitors would be. You can view here the skeletal remains of prehistoric animals that roamed China from between 500 million years ago, right up "as recent as" to one million years ago.
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Author: Shizhao
Look out for the Lufengosaurus from the Jurassic period and the spine-nosed Qingdaosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.
In the Zoology section of the Beijing Museum of Natural History, you can see a stuffed menagerie mammals, marine life and birds.
There is also a section of the museum devoted to the evolution of humans, and if you're bold enough, head down to the basement to view cross-sections of human cadavers, pickled corpses, limbs and organs.
Less impressive perhaps, but certainly more placid, are the verdant displays of the botany section.
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Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
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Author: Shizhao
Look out for the Lufengosaurus from the Jurassic period and the spine-nosed Qingdaosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.
In the Zoology section of the Beijing Museum of Natural History, you can see a stuffed menagerie mammals, marine life and birds.
There is also a section of the museum devoted to the evolution of humans, and if you're bold enough, head down to the basement to view cross-sections of human cadavers, pickled corpses, limbs and organs.
Less impressive perhaps, but certainly more placid, are the verdant displays of the botany section.
How to reach the Beijing Museum of Natural History
Take the subway to the Qian Men subway station, and then a taxi to get there. You can also take bus 2, 6, 17, 20, 25, 45, 54, 59, 102, 105, 110 and 120, getting off at Tianqiao Station. The museum is open 8:30 am to 5:00 pm daily, with last entry at 4:00 pm. Admission fee is ¥15 for adults and ¥10 for children below the height of 1.2 meters.
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Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.
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