Beijing Natural History Museum which was founded in 1951 is the most popular and the earliest natural history museum in China. It has covering a floor space of 24,000 square meters, with more than 8000 square meters for display. The museum houses more than 200,000 items collections of paleontology, ornithology, mammals and invertebrates which are displayed in the Halls of Paleontology, Zoology, Botany and Mankind Evolution. It has three main functions for the specimen collection, the academic research and the science popularization of paleontology, zoology, botany and anthropology.

Being mainly engaged in specimen collection, scientific research and science popularization work in the fields of all the creatures including the animals, plants and any other sciences. Here, you would get the truth of the artifacts, fossils and specimens. Different constructions of these creatures have different findings researched here to present to the world. More than a hundred thousand artifacts, fossils and specimens are also displayed here. Especially the large ancient mammal fossils ranks the second in the world have attracted a lot of attentions. Among all the specimens and fossils, the Stegodon zdanskyi which is a kind of animal has become the most famous and precious.