Established in April 1951, the Beijing Museum of Natural History was formerly known as the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum of Nature. It was officially named as the Beijing Museum of Natural History in 1962. The museum is the first large-scale natural history museum built by the New China independently, mainly engaged in specimen collection, scientific research and science popularization in the fields of paleontology, zoology, botany and anthropology. The basic exhibition of the museum takes biological evolution as the main line, showing biodiversity and its relationship with the environment and constructing a panoramic view of the occurrence and development of life on earth.