The Chongqing Natural History Museum, founded in 1944, was originally known as the Western Museum of China. It changed to the present name in 1981.

The Museum in south Chongqing has a collection of about 70,000 specimens of paleontology, minerals, animals, plants, and Stone Age wares, of which over 100 items are very rare. It houses a number of dinosaur skeletons that have been unearthed in Sichuan Province. Most of the remains have been uncovered around the town of Zigong since the 1970s. The most impressive exhibits at the Chongqing Natural History Museum are the skeletons of the Tuojiang stegosaur and the Omeisaurus Zigongensis dinosaur.

The museum has several basic displays, namely, the Display of Sichuan Dinosaur Fossils, the Display of Sichuan Invertebrate, the Display of Biological Evolution, and the Display of Dinosaur Fossils of Abroad Roadshows, etc.

Besides, the museum has published several books such asSichuan Jurassic Dinosaurs and Stratums,Stegosaurus,and so on.