Museums - Special issue

In 1907, Alexander F. Kots, the young lecturer of the chair of evolution of the Moscow High Women's Courses, has decided to establish the natural History museum, where everybody can examine the collections to get knowledges about the world by himself and to make conclusions about the processes occurring in nature. Darwin museum has been planned by A. Kots as museum for all kinds of visitors, however, it became such museum only since 1994 when it got its own present building at Vavilova street.

Darwin museum has always accumulated collections illustrating natural processes - paleontological, zoological, biological, bothanic, entomological etc. Rare books collected in the museum can tell about scientific visions of nature development in the XVI-XIX centuries, while animalistic collections display how artists and painters have expressed their relation to the environment.

Owing to so large diversity, Darwin museum is today the only in Russia having 5,000 sq. m exposition that illustrates the processes on the Earth during past times. It's completely interesting for children as well as for adults. It displays that ancient people had good knowledges in stones and chose for tools the correct minerals, having tough structure and sharp fracture.

The Earth bowels collected a lot of mysteries, so geologists and miners working at large depths sometimes meet reminders of animals and plants, presented now in museums. To speak truthly, many rocks are just stoned plants and animals after changes during millions of years. There are several museums in the world that are locating in old mines and pits with walls being the exhibits themselves.

Welcome to the Darwin museum for new impressions! Additional information can be found at www.Darwin.museum.ru

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