Beijing Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum Beijing ( Chinese 北京 自然博物馆 , Pinyin Běijīng zìrán bówùguǎn , English Beijing Museum of Natural History (BMNH) ) is a natural history museum in China . The museum building is located in the Beijing District Dongcheng in the Tianqiao Nan-road no. 126. The institution was established in 1951 under the name National Central Museum of Natural History ( 中央自然博物馆 founded) and received in 1962 the current name.
The museum also shows dinosaurs in its exhibition. You can see the 26-meter-long sauropod Mamenchisaurus , various large predatory dinosaurs from the " Sinraptoridae " group, the " prosauropod " Lufengosaurus (comparable to the European "prosauropod" Plateosaurus ) and the bird-like anchiornis , which is very well known in China .
Mamenchisaurus jingyanesi ( on loan from the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science (PPFMOS))
Sinraptor hepingensis (in PPFMOS)
Lufengosaurus magnus
(in PPFMOS)
Anchiornis huxleyi
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Coordinates: 39 ° 52 ′ 55 " N , 116 ° 23 ′ 38" E