The architecture of the Tianjin Natural History Museum looks like a giant seashell from outside. It represents the fact that Tianjin is one of the pearls of the Bohai Sea. Tianjin Natural History Museum houses a vast collection of artifacts from China’s northwest and northeast, as well as various natural items that are representative of the whole country’s natural environments. While at the Tianjin Natural History Museum, visitors can see giant fossilized dinosaur eggs and the taxidermied specimens of precious Chinese animals such as the crested ibis, giant panda, snub-nosed monkey and takin.