Closed address of National Animal Museum

The National Animal Museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday at 9:00- 16:00 (ticket sales are closed at 15: 30) and closed every Monday. The National Animal Museum is located in the courtyard of Beichen West Road 1, Chaoyang District, Beijing, north of Datun Road (east-west), south of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and west of Institute of Geography.

The National Animal Museum is a museum with animals as its theme. Based on the research center of system classification and evolution, drawing lessons from the theme display mode of modern museums, adopting the knowledge of natural science and humanities to embody the theme, and introducing high-tech audio-visual facilities such as 4D dynamic cinema, the profound philosophy of science becomes more approachable.

It opened in 2009 and held a wildlife photography exhibition, which was divided into three parts: birds, insects and African wildlife, and became a grand gathering for photographers in Beijing.

The museum integrates animal specimen collection and display, popularization and education of popular science knowledge, and description and cataloging of biodiversity. It is a professional museum representing the national level, and a national academic institution integrating animal system and evolution research, animal specimen collection and popularization of animal science knowledge. It consists of two parts: animal specimen museum and specimen exhibition hall.