The Geological Museum stands at the eastern end of Yangrou (Mutton) Alley in the Xisi section. The museum was built in 1958 and its total area of 10,000 square meters is divided into five ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it ...

In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces - including imperial thrones - and moved them out of Beijing to other cities.

at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing, visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era ...