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Chongqing Natural History Museum 重庆自然博物馆Chóngqìng Zìrán Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · Chongqing, Chongqing
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chongqing
- Region
- Chongqing
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Chongqing Natural History Museum
Chongqing's natural history museum, open in its present building at the foot of Jinyun Mountain in Beibei since 2015, with a design based on the spreading roots of the huangge fig, the city tree. Its collection of more than 110,000 objects covers fossils, minerals, animals and plants, and the dinosaur galleries show Sichuan Basin skeletons such as Omeisaurus and Tuojiangosaurus. The museum grew out of the Western China Academy of Sciences, founded in 1930, and the wartime Western China Museum, and it still runs the academy's old campus in central Beibei as a second site.
How to get to Chongqing Natural History Museum
At 398 Jinhua Road at the foot of Jinyun Mountain in Beibei District, about 45 km north-west of central Chongqing. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Hongyadong & Chongqing Night Views 洪崖洞 30 km
A cliffside stack of stilt houses glowing gold over the river every night - Dazu Rock Carvings 大足石刻 60 km
A cliffside storybook of Buddhist hells, mothers and thousand-armed Guanyin
Also within 20 km: Tomb of General Zhang Zizhong 张自忠将军墓 (under 10 km), Jinyun Mountain 缙云山 (under 10 km), Former Western China Academy of Sciences 中国西部科学院旧址 (under 10 km), Jialing River Rural Reconstruction Sites (Lu Zuofu Memorial Hall) 嘉陵江三峡乡村建设旧址群 (under 10 km), North Hot Spring Park (Beiwenquan) 北温泉 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Chongqing 重庆欢乐谷 (20 km).
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