The National Zoological Museum of China is located on the campus of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...
in
Beijing
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in the
Chaoyang District. It is the largest zoological museum in China.
The National Zoological Museum of China by Winnie Li
2009/08/05 It has three floors of exhibits that surround a central exhibit area that contains a large hanging whale skeleton. The exhibits consists largely of mounted bird, mammal, and insects. The butterfly collection is quite large in particular.
See also
*Kunming Institute of Zoology Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) (中国科学院昆明动物研究所), one of the 20 biological institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is one of China's first class zoological research institutes, located in Kunming, Yunnan ...
References
External links
National Zoological Museum of China
Official site
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Museums in Beijing
Natural history museums in China
2009 establishments in China