The latest opening hours of Chongqing Natural History Museum

The Chongqing Museum of Natural History will officially resume business on November 20, 2021, but it will be closed every Monday. If you want to visit, you must make an appointment online in advance to visit the real-name registration system. The museum’s current restrictions and visiting instructions are below.

2021 Chongqing Natural History Museum Reopening Announcement

Chongqing Natural History Museum will reopen to the public on November 20, 2021. The visit items are now announced as follows:

Business hours

The museum is closed every Monday (except holidays), and admission is closed from 9:00-17:00 and 16:30 on opening days.

Reservation method

1. All visitors make online reservations to visit the real-name registration system.

2. Visitors can make an appointment to visit through the WeChat official account of Chongqing Natural History Museum.

Current limiting measures

1. To avoid crowd gathering, group booking services are suspended.

2. According to the actual situation of our library, the number of people who can make reservations is adjusted to 75% of the maximum daily capacity (9,000 people, 4,000 people in the morning and 5,000 people in the afternoon).

3. Manual explanations are temporarily cancelled. Audiences can provide self-help explanations on the official WeChat account "Gold Medal Explanation" of "Chongqing Natural History Museum".

Visit Notice

1. On the day of treatment, you must present the original ID card (or electronic identity) used for the appointment, the appointment QR code, and the Chongqing code. Tourists outside Chongqing need to provide a negative nucleic acid test report within 48 hours before entering the museum.

2. Visitors must wear masks correctly throughout the process, cooperate with staff in taking body temperature, and register information before entering the museum. Visitors with abnormal body temperature (37.3) or coughing will be refused entry.

3. Keep a distance of more than 1m when queuing up to visit. Tel: 023-60313777

What to see in the museum

As the second largest comprehensive nature museum in China, the museum has a large number of animal specimens and a collection of more than 110,000 pieces.

There is also a large "dinosaur world". Dinosaurs that have survived for 165 million years from the Triassic, Jurassic to Cretaceous periods, and the largest dinosaur in Asia, Mamenchisaurus from Hechuan, have been kept in museums for many years because they cannot be displayed.

The exhibition basically consists of six major exhibitions: Animal Planet, Dinosaur World, Landscape City, Mystery of the Earth, Life Rapids, and Ecological Home. It mainly shows the evolution of the earth, the evolution of life, the diversity of organisms, and the magnificent mountains and rivers of Chongqing. Suitable for both adults and children~

The fossils and specimens of animals and plants are lifelike. Most of them are organized and introduced according to their life times and environmental habits, intuitively showing the rise and fall of the earth and the animal and plant kingdoms. Visiting each exhibition hall in turn is like walking into a time tunnel, silently telling the story of the earth's animal and plant kingdom. It is lively and interesting, and it also teaches people to understand, care for and love their homes together.

The collection contains nearly 70,000 geological and mineral, paleontological, animal, plant, soil and Paleolithic specimens, as well as more than 100 type specimens and other rare specimens. There are representative dinosaur fossil specimens of different categories and eras collected in Sichuan. Eight skeleton specimens and more than 100 dinosaur footprints are on display.

In addition, "Ancient Turtle Collection of China (Late Jurassic)" is one of the earliest turtle fossils discovered in the world. The snake-necked turtle specimen is a rare treasure found outside Europe; the Chengdu turtle is the earliest known representative of turtles in China and is also rare in the world records of its kind. Its fossils are of great significance for studying the early evolution of tortoises. The animals include giant pandas, wildebeests, golden monkeys, red pandas, snow leopards, crowned deer, green-tailed pheasants, giant salamanders (giant salamanders) and other nationally protected animals. Plant specimens include 221 families, more than 1,500 genera, and more than 2,400 species, many of which are rare plant specimens.