GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF CHINA

    The museum, opened on Oct. 1, 1959, is the oldest geological museum in China. Its area is 10,000 square meters.

    The museum has more than 100,000 geological specimens. Many of them are considered national treasures, such as "the Giant Shandong Dinosaur" fossil, which is the most complete dinosaur fossil extant in the world, the fossils of primitive birds and the dental fossils of Yunnan Yuanmou Man, which represent the earliest fossils of human ancestors found in China and East Asia.

    The museum has five halls: geological resources, global history, stratum paleontology, mineral rocks and diamonds, with an exhibition area of 2,500 square meters.

    Further Information:

    Address: 15, Xisi Yangrou Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing

    Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m. (Closed on Monday)

    Entry ticket: 30 yuan/person

    Telephone: 6655 7858

    Website: http://www.gmc.org.cn/