National Natural History Museum of China

The National Natural History Museum of China (NNHM; 国家自然博物馆), previously the Beijing Museum of Natural History, is a municipal public natural history museum in Dongcheng, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology under the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
The museum was established as the national Central Museum of Natural History by the Central Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1951. In 1962, during the Great Leap Forward period, the museum was transferred to the city government of Beijing and was renamed the Beijing Museum of Natural History. Initially affiliated with the Beijing Municipal Culture Bureau, the museum then came under the purview of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Bureau in 1975, and later, the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology in 1985. In January 2023, after receiving an approval reply from the Central Institutional Organization Commission, the Beijing city government ratified the museum's application for a name change. Consequently, in June 2023, it was officially renamed the...