The invention relates to the technical field of cell culture, and discloses a cell culture incubator convenient for taking culture dishes. The cell culture incubator comprises an incubator body, wherein a driving shaft is movably connected to the inner bottom surface of the incubator body, a connecting rod transmission mechanism is connected to the driving shaft, and thermal insulation doors are fixed connected to the inner side wall of the incubator body through fixing rods; and heat preservation layer frames are fixedly connected to the inner top surface of the incubator body, and a water sprayer is fixedly connected to the surface of each heat preservation layer frame. When a worker needs to take the culture dishes, button switches are pressed down in advance, each button switch drivesa corresponding tray to do reciprocating motion, the culture dishes on a placing frame are lifted up and then placed on taking trays in the moving process of the trays, at the moment, due to the gravity effect of the culture dishes, a lead screw is not meshed with the driving shaft any more, and the trays stop moving, at the moment, the worker rotates the button switches to reset the button switches due to the acting force of springs, an incubator cover can be opened, and the culture dishes can be taken out, so that the effect of taking the culture dishes conveniently is achieved.