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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.
San Diego Natural History Museum: 12.4 m (est.) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 7 s (estimate) San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences: 30 ft (9.14 m) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 6.1 s San Francisco: Calico Labs: San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium: San Jose: The Harker School: Santa Barbara: Museum of Natural History: Currently inoperable Santa ...
The Beijing Planetarium (simplified Chinese: 北京天文馆; traditional Chinese: 北京天文館) is a planetarium in Xicheng District, Beijing, China. [1] The planetarium comprises two main buildings, Building A & B. Building A, which was built in 1957, [1] contains the Celestial Theater, an Eastern Exhibition Hall and a Western Exhibition ...
The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is the most visited planetarium in the world. [ 1 ] This entry is a list of permanent planetariums across the world.
Beijing Air and Space Museum; Beijing Ancient Observatory; Beijing Auto Museum; Beijing Exhibition Center; Beijing Liao and Jin City Wall Museum; Beijing Lu Xun Museum; Beijing Planetarium; Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall
China 1st-Grade National Museums The Forbidden City (Palace Museum) in Beijing. The designation "national first-grade museum" (simplified Chinese: 国家一级博物馆; traditional Chinese: 國家一級博物館; pinyin: guójiā yījí bówùguǎn) is the highest classification for museums in China, as determined by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH).
American Museum of Natural History: New York City: 1869 Natural History: 1,790,000 sq ft (166,296 m 2) [8] [9] 32,000,000 [10] United States: British Museum: London: 1753 Archaeology and art 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq ft) [11] 65,752 m 2 (707,750 sq ft) [11] More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world) United Kingdom: National Museum of China ...
Natural history museums in China (3 C, 13 P) T. ... Beijing Ancient Observatory; Beijing Planetarium; C. China Printing Museum;