The characteristic exhibition halls of the Beijing Museum of Natural History are rich and diverse. The following are some of the main characteristic exhibition halls:

Ancient Reptile Hall
Features: It showcases the landscapes of the biological world over 200 million years ago, featuring lifelike dinosaur skeleton groups, such as the first dinosaur discovered by the Chinese, the Lufenglong Xu’s, and the 26-meter-long Mammunxisaurus Jingyan, among others. These dinosaur skeletons are not only grand in scale but also rich in details, making the audience feel as if they were in the ancient dinosaur world.
Highlights: Utilizing multimedia computers to allow the audience to appreciate the original burial state of dinosaurs and experience the hardships and joys of paleontologists in excavating dinosaur fossils through the “fossil search Engine”.
Hall of Ancient Mammals
Feature: With warm yellow as the background color, it recreates the color of the rocks in the original burial strata of ancient mammal fossils. Here, a large number of star specimens are gathered, such as saber-toothed tigers, Yellow River elephants, mammoths, ETC.
Highlight: Through 3D printing technology, the round sculpture models of 9 small ancient mammals in the collection were restored, making the plate-shaped type specimens more intuitive and three-dimensional.
Exhibition Hall of the Prosperity of Invertebrates
Features: It focuses on major historical events such as the formation of fossils, the origin of life, the Cambrian explosion, and the prosperity of invertebrates.
Highlight: Utilizing high-tech audio-visual and lighting technologies to recreate the ancient world of hundreds of millions of years ago, allowing the audience to learn relevant paleontological knowledge while enjoying the beauty.
Plant World Exhibition Hall
Features: It comprehensively and systematically introduces the evolution process of plants from their birth, from lower plants to higher plants, through a large number of plant fossil specimens, plant scientific restoration diagrams, plant restoration landscapes and various modern plant specimens.
Highlight: It enables the audience to understand the significant position and role of plants in human production and life.
Magical Africa Exhibition Hall
Features: Utilizing 360-degree circular panoramic painting display technology, the natural connection between the ground terrain and the background painting presents an infinite perspective effect of the wilderness. Combined with the novel display method of open animal landscapes, it showcases the magnificent and awed African wilderness to the audience.
Highlights: It showcases a large number of precious African animal specimens, such as giraffes, lions, elephants, zebras, etc., allowing visitors to experience the unique charm of African wild animals up close.
The Origin of Man Exhibition Hall
Features: The exhibition is divided into two parts: “Know Yourself” 和 “The Origin of Modern Humans”, using various means such as specimens, display boards, and projections to tell the story of human evolution.
Highlights: A variety of representative ancient human fossils are on display, including the tibia fossil of Yuanmou Man, allowing visitors to understand the long evolutionary process of humans from early ape-men to modern humans.
Dinosaur Park
Feature: Located on the first basement floor, it is a world for dinosaur enthusiasts. Here are 23 lifelike dinosaurs, two pterosaurs and a restored model of a hard-billed lizard that lived with the earliest dinosaurs.
The highlight: The dinosaur model not only emits a low hissing sound but also blinks, shakes its head, wags its tail, and flaps its teeth and claws, as if vividly recreating the scenes of the dinosaur era before your eyes.