The Museum of Natural History is an institution that combines scientific research with scientific propaganda, and undertakes the important task of popularizing and studying natural science in society. The British Museum of Natural History in London and the American Museum of Natural History in new york are both internationally recognized as the largest natural history museums in the world. Although the British Museum of Natural History was built earlier than the American Museum of Natural History, it has surpassed the British Museum of Natural History and is one of the largest natural museums in the world in terms of base area, exhibition content and audience number.

The American Museum of Natural History has an extremely rich collection of animal specimens and other treasures, which is a solid foundation for the museum to carry out scientific research and publicity. For example, the museum has more than 800,000 bird specimens from all over the world, and hundreds of dinosaur bone specimens are placed in the dinosaur finishing room.