China Beijing China Geological Museum

The China Geological Museum was foundedin 1916, and is the earliest public natural science museum in China. It is one of the largest museums in Asia, with a long history, a large collection, a high rate of rare items, exquisite displays, and fruitful scientific research results.

The museum is arranged according to the structure of the earth’s crust, with five basic exhibition halls: the Earth Hall, Mineral and Rock Hall, Gemstone Hall, Prehistoric Life Hall, and Land and Resources Hall.There are also two temporary exhibition halls that track hot issues in earth sciences and update the exhibition content at any time.

The museum has a collection of 200,000 specimens, including the world-famous Shandong giant dinosaur, the Chinese longbird and other dinosaur fossils, as well as Peking Man, Yuanmou Man, and other famous ancient human fossils. There are also a large number of fish, bird, insect and other precious prehistoric fossils.There are also the world’s largest “crystal king”, giant fluorite calcite crystal cluster specimens, exquisite specimens of Chinese characteristic minerals such as azurite, cinnabar, realgar, orpiment, scheelite and stibnite, as well as a large collection of national treasures such as a wide range of precious stones and jades.