Top 10 Dinosaur Fossil Museums in China

Dinosaurs were once the most active biological species on earth. With the changes of nature and the law of biological elimination, dinosaurs became extinct. Many dinosaur fossils have been excavated all over the world, and many dinosaur museums have been established accordingly. There are also many dinosaur museums in China, and these are the top 10 dinosaur fossil museums in China.

1. China Xixia Dinosaur Site Park 中国西峡恐龙遗址园

Funiu Mountain Laojieling·Dinosaur Relics Park is located in the hometown of dinosaurs – Xixia County. The dinosaur egg fossils unearthed in Xixia are the best in the world in number, variety, distribution and preservation. A large number of dinosaur bones such as Hadrosaurus, Iguanodon, Protoceratops, Carnosaurus, etc. are known as the ninth wonder of the world after the Terracotta Warriors of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. The Dinosaur Relics Park in the scenic spot features Xixia Dinosaur Egg Fossils as the main exhibition feature. There is the only Xixia Dinosaur Egg Fossil Museum in the country with dinosaur egg fossils as its main exhibits, as well as a dinosaur egg featuring the original buried state of dinosaur egg fossils. The ruins exhibition hall, in addition to the dinosaur hall, the simulated dinosaur park, the carnival amusement park, the Longdu water park and other attractions, is a famous dinosaur fossil museum.
Address: Xixia County, Nanyang City, Henan Province

2. World Dinosaur Valley Tourist Area 世界恐龙谷旅游区

Lufeng is one of the richest, most complete, oldest and most primitive areas in the world where dinosaur fossils have been unearthed so far. It is the hometown of Chinese dinosaurs. There are hundreds of dinosaurs buried here. Relying on the stone-class dinosaur fossil burial site in Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark, Yunnan, China, it is a famous dinosaur relics park. The scenic area is divided into two areas: the dinosaur site scientific research area and the Jurassic World tourist area. Tourists can travel through the Jurassic World here, interpret the rise and fall of the earth’s creatures, and share the wonders of the world that have preserved the earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Address: Lufeng County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

3. Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum 诸城恐龙博物馆

If you want to explore the mystery and uncover the mystery of dinosaurs, Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum is a must-see. It is famous for the world record holder “Giant Zhucheng Dragon”, also known as “Dragon Museum”. , is a good place I recommend to see dinosaurs in China. The Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum displays the world’s tallest duck-billed dinosaur fossil skeleton, the huge Zhucheng dragon (9.1 meters high and 16.6 meters long), which is praised as “the world’s largest dragon” by Chinese and foreign experts; Tyrannosaurus” and the most primitive “Zhucheng Chinese Ceratopsian” and other fossil skeletons, as well as dinosaur bone fossils, egg fossils and other very representative dinosaur fossils; the huge dinosaur femur fossils collected in the Wonderful Keel Hall are known as “the first wonder in China”. bone”.
Address: No. 3, Mizhou West Road, Zhucheng City, Weifang City, Shandong Province

4. Zigong Dinosaur Museum 自贡恐龙博物馆

The Zigong Dinosaur Museum is a large-scale site museum built on the site of the world-famous “Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site”. It is also the first professional dinosaur museum in China and one of the three largest dinosaur site museums in the world. The Zigong Dinosaur Museum covers an area of ​​more than 70,000 square meters, the main exhibition hall has a construction area of ​​6,600 square meters, and the exhibition area is 4,600 square meters. It is the core park of the Zigong UNESCO Global Geopark. The museum’s collection of fossil specimens includes almost all known dinosaur species from the Jurassic period 205-135 million years ago. It is currently the place where more Jurassic dinosaur fossils are collected and displayed in the world. “The best dinosaur museum in the world”.
Address: No. 238, Dashanpu, Daan District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province

5. Petrified Wood·Dinosaur National Geopark 硅化木·恐龙国家地质公园

The Silicified Wood·Dinosaur National Geopark is located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. It was formed in the Jurassic period 195-137 million years ago, and is rich in dinosaur fossils. Qitai Tianshanosaurus unearthed in 1931 was the first time Chinese people discovered dinosaur fossils in Asia; two complete dinosaur skeletons were discovered between 1986 and 1990, one of which was 30 meters long, more than 10 meters high, and weighed 50,000 meters. Kilogram, it is a sauropod dinosaur – Mamenchiosaurus in China; the sauropod herbivorous dinosaur fossil unearthed in Qitai Dinosaur Valley on August 26, 2006 is 35 meters long and is the largest dinosaur fossil in Asia and the second largest in the world , This dinosaur fossil has a neck with a length of 15 meters, which is the longest dinosaur fossil in the world; also excavated a stegosaurus shoulder spine and sword plate fossil, which is the best preserved dinosaur shoulder spine and sword plate fossil in the world. Complete and largest.
Address: Qitai County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

6. Heyuan Dinosaur Museum 河源恐龙博物馆

Heyuan, the “hometown of dinosaurs in southern my country”, is one of the important origins of dinosaur egg fossils in China. Since the discovery of the first dinosaur egg fossil in March 1996, dinosaur bone fossils have been discovered, breaking the “egg but no dragon, and dragon but no egg”. Not only that, but also the bones and footprints of dinosaurs were discovered in Heyuan. Dinosaur-themed, the museum mainly exhibits more than 17,000 various dinosaur egg fossils, more than 10 individual dinosaur skeleton fossils and many dinosaur footprint fossil models that have obtained the Guinness World Records certificate. There are more than 800 kinds of dinosaurs. Nearly 100 tons, as small as a fist, reflects the rich dinosaur fossil resources of Heyuan City as the “Hometown of Chinese Dinosaurs”.
Address: Under the Guifeng Tower, Binjiang Avenue, Yuancheng District, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province

7. Erenhot Dinosaur Geopark 二连浩特市恐龙地质公园

Erenhot Dinosaur Museum is the earliest place where dinosaur fossils were recorded in the international paleontology history in Inner Mongolia. As early as 70 million years ago, the area around Erlian Salt Pond was full of lakes and swamps, with a humid and hot climate and dense forests. It was a paradise for dinosaurs to live and breed. Beginning with Russian Academician Obluchev in the 1990s, in the past 100 years, paleontologists and geologists from Russia, the United States, Canada and China have conducted six large-scale expeditions and excavations here. More than ten species of fossils of Diplodocus, Acaiosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Ornithosaurus, Ankylosaurus, and Ceratosaurus have been discovered one after another, and a large number of relatively complete dinosaur skeleton fossils have been unearthed. The earliest record in China.
Address: Erlianhot City, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

8. Changji Dinosaur Museum 昌吉恐龙馆

The Changji Dinosaur Museum has medieval biological fossils, and the entire dinosaur museum covers an area of ​​83 acres. The body of the “Asia’s first dragon” Mamenxisaurus, with a body length of 35 meters and a neck length of 15 meters, extends from the first floor to the first floor, and is copied from dinosaur bone fossils in a ratio of 1:1. Here you can see dinosaur fossils such as Arrowosaurus, Qitai Tianshansaurus, Sinoraptor that were once unearthed in Changji, as well as a large number of rare pterosaur fossils and dinosaur life scenes. In addition, the Changji Dinosaur Museum holds the “Flying to the Cretaceous-Chinese Pterosaur Fossil Exhibition” every year. In the 4D cinema on the second floor, visitors can face-to-face with dinosaurs in realistic and varied life scenes. There are also simulated mechanical dragons of different shapes in the museum, and visitors can even ride on simulated dragons as high as two meters.
Address: Changji City, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang

9. Nanxiong Dinosaur Museum 南雄恐龙博物馆

The Nanxiong Dinosaur Museum shows people the unearthed conditions of Nanxiong paleontological fossils through physical objects, pictures and written materials, and reproduces the dinosaur world in the Cretaceous period 7,000 years ago. Many dinosaur egg fossils and dinosaur fossils are buried in the red layer of Nanxiong. The museum exhibits Tyrannosaurus rex, short-thorn Nanxiong, Nanxiong duck-billed dinosaur and nested dinosaur egg fossils. The discovery of paleontological fauna fossils in the Nanxiong red bed shows that China has many layers of fossils and is extremely rich in species. Paleocene stratigraphic section of the country.
Address: No. 48, Chengkang Road, Local Specialty Street, Nanxiong City, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province

10. Tianyu Natural History Museum 天宇自然博物馆

Shandong Tianyu Natural History Museum was completed and opened in 2004, with a construction area of ​​32,000 square meters and an exhibition area of ​​28,000 square meters. Tianyu Natural History Museum has attracted attention at home and abroad with its rich collections since its establishment. More than 1,200 dinosaurs and more than 2,200 bird fossils are preserved in the museum, making it the natural museum with the most complete dinosaur and bird fossils in the world. The Institute of Zoology and Paleoanthropology has a scientific research station here, and in July 2010 was recognized by the Guinness World Records headquarters as the world’s largest collection of dinosaur and other prehistoric animal fossils museums.
Address: Pingyi County, Linyi City, Shandong Province