Many of them are precious items reputed as "National Treasures", such as "the Giant Shandong Dinosaur"(Shantungosaurus) fossil, the most complete dinosaur fossils extant in the world excavated from Liaoning; the fossils of primitive birds that were found in the west of Liaoning Province, which has the essential values to the research on birds of the area; the teeth fossils of Yunnan Yuanmou Man, which shifts the appearance of human beings in China to a much more earlier time; the stoneware, stone pearls, bone needles and bone decoration unearthed from the site of the Upper Cave man at Zhoukoudian in Beijing; a cinnabar crystal of 237 grams that is called as "King of Cinnabar"; and more than 60 new mineral products that were found in China, and so on.

[3] On the third floor of the museum, a Lufengosaurus skeleton is mounted next to a display case holding a fossil of Shantungosaurus.

A small circular gallery is covered on the walls by a mural, and the glass floor contains many dinosaur bones.

As the hall turns back, a partial dinosaur skeleton labeled "Anchisaurus sinensis" is displayed on the wall.

The next section of the gallery puts on display a scenario from Cretaceous Mongolia, mounting several Velociraptor specimens harassing a nesting Oviraptor.