A world-class natural history museum is under construction in Baoding, North China’s Hebei Province, expected to bring thousands of paleontological fossil specimens on exhibit.

The museum project is jointly carried out by the Baoding Municipal Government and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

With paleontological fossils as the theme, the museum with a total investment of 1.7 billion yuan (about 273.5 million U.S. dollars) is designed to have floor space of about 73,100 square meters with six halls for fixed exhibitions and two rooms for temporary exhibitions.

The new Baoding museum will provide more exhibition space to the institute’s 400,000 paleontological fossil specimens in stock.

A skeleton fossil of the world’s only Sinosaurus dongi is displayed at Baoding Natural History Museum, or the Paleozoological Museum of China, in North China’s Hebei Province, January 3, 2024. [IMAGE: CHINA NEWS SERVICE/SUN ZIFA]

Skeleton fossils of mammoth are displayed at Baoding Natural History Museum, or the Paleozoological Museum of China, in North China’s Hebei Province, January 3, 2024. [IMAGE: CHINA NEWS SERVICE/SUN ZIFA]

A Megalodon giant shark tooth fossil is displayed at Baoding Natural History Museum, or the Paleozoological Museum of China, in North China’s Hebei Province, January 3, 2024. [IMAGE: CHINA NEWS SERVICE/SUN ZIFA]

Source: Xinhua