Paleozoological Museum of China, Natural history museum at Xizhimenwai Street in Beijing, China

The Paleozoological Museum of China is a natural history museum in Beijing with two main exhibition halls filled with fossils and reconstructed skeletons. The collection spans over one thousand specimens of vertebrate animals and human ancestry findings from different geological periods.

The museum was established in October 1994 and opened to the public in Beijing in December 1995, created by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It occupies a site on the south side of Xizhimenwai Dajie, west of the Beijing Planetarium. The building was renovated in 2014.

The museum displays fossils from Chinese excavation sites and shows how scientists track the evolution of life across millions of years. Visitors encounter finds that have shaped our understanding of human prehistory.

The museum stands at 142 Xizhimenwai Dajie in Xicheng District, on the south side of the street and west of the Beijing Planetarium. Exhibits are arranged by evolutionary sequence across two sub-museums and five halls, so follow the floors in order. The building also houses the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

The third floor centres on a woolly mammoth skull, mounted with Stegodon and Platybelodon skeletons and a Rhinotitan mount. The museum's 900-odd displayed pieces are drawn from more than 200,000 specimens held by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.