It is well worth a visit, with a collection of more than 400 living mammals, more than 1,200 birds, thousands of insects and other invertebrates, and about a quarter of the world’s mineral samples. The exhibitions are very rich, mainly divided into nine exhibition areas: recent mammal fossils, recent bird fossils, fish, amphibians and reptiles, insects, non-insect invertebrates, invertebrate fossils, minerals and rocks, and plants.