Chongqing Natural History Museum
natural history museum in China
The Chongqing Natural History Museum (Chinese: 重庆自然博物馆) is a natural history museum in Beibei District, Chongqing, China.
The museum founded in 1944, originally as the Western Museum of China. It changed its name in 1981. The museum has a collection of about 70,000 specimens covering animals, minerals, paleontology, plants, and Stone Age period wares. It includes several dinosaur skeletons from the Sichuan Province. especially since the 1970s from around Zigong. The exhibits include the skeletons of the dinosaurs Omeisaurus and the Tuojiangosaurus. The museum also publishes books on dinosaurs.
The original museum building was in the Beibei District. A new museum building in the Yuzhong District was under construction as of 2013, consisting of six exhibition halls and covering an area of 14.4 hectares.
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