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| Established | 1924 (as the National Museum) |
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| Dissolved | 2019 |
| Location | Chingeltei, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Coordinates | 47°55′25″N 106°54′21″E / 47.9235039°N 106.9058838°E |
| Type | Natural History |
| Visitors | ca. 80,000 annually |
| Website | nhm |
The Natural History Museum (Mongolian: Байгалийн түүхийн музей, romanized: Baigaliin tüükhiin muzyei) is a repository and research institution located in Chingeltei, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The museum was previously known as the Mongolian National Museum or State Central Museum.
The museum includes Departments of Geology, Geography, Flora and Fauna, Paleontology, and Anthropology encompassing the natural history of Mongolia. The museum's holdings include more than 15000 specimens, 45% of which were on permanent public display.
The museum is particularly well known for its dinosaur and other paleontological exhibits, among which the most notable are a nearly complete skeleton of a late Cretaceous Tarbosaurus tyrannosaurid and broadly contemporaneous nests of Protoceratops eggs.