[1] The museum was situated on Barakhamba Road at Tansen Marg in central New Delhi,[2] across from the Embassy of Nepal, near the Connaught Place metro station.

[4] Since the fire, the institution has been conducting events in the community while continuing to exhibit at its regional branches in Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Mysore and Sawai Madhopur.

[6] The NMNH's director, B Venugopal, also emphasised "intangible natural heritage" (a concept invented by UNESCO[citation needed]) at the museum.

[2] Following a negative government report in 2012 regarding the building's poor state of maintenance,[4] in July 2015, plans were made to relocate the museum to a ₹ 2.50 billion ($39.4M, €36.4M, or £25.3M as of July 2015) green-certified building at Bhairon Marg,[2] where "The zoological park is close by, [and] so are the National Crafts Museum, Purana Qila and National Science Centre.

[8] Plans for future exhibitions, as of 2015, had included "climate change, global warming, combating desertification, tsunami, [and] depletion of [the] ozone layer" as well as "more digital displays ... [a]nd an IMAX theatre".