Situated at 206 Machang Street in Hexi District, the Natural Museum was set up in 1914, and was then named 'Beijing Museum'. The new museum, covering an area of 20,000 square meters, was built in 1997. 

The museum is divided into the exhibition halls such as reptile, ancient mammal, zoo tope, aquatic animal, marine shell, world insect and subtropical halls with more than 380,000 biological specimens and fossils. The most important fossils belong to biological groups of the late Cenozoic Era and include mammals from the Yushe basin in Shanxi Province.