The museum was built in 1958 and its total area of 10,000 square meters is divided into five exhibition halls: Mineral Resources; Earth History; Stratigraphy and Paleontology; Rocks and Minerals ...

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum ... in the heart of Beijing.

China has become the country with the most dinosaur fossil discovery sites in the world, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ... University of Geosciences Beijing, while dinosaur fossils ...