Geological Museum. V. I.Vernadsky description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

Geological Museum. VI Vernadsky description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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State Geological Museum. IN AND. Vernadsky is the oldest Moscow museum, scientific center, educational center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of sciences studying the Earth. The museum was founded in 1755. The idea of creating the museum belongs to M.V. Lomonosov, and the collection of the museum was based on the collection of the Demidovs, donated to the museum.

The museum has existed in its present form since 1988. It was then, at the suggestion of Professor Mineev, supported by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, that the government issued a decree "On the 125th anniversary of the birth of Vernadsky." It included a clause on the creation of a museum in a building on Mokhovaya in the center of the capital. When creating the State Geological Museum. Vernadsky, the museum funds of two museums were combined: the Pavlovs Geological and Paleontological Museum and the V. Vernadsky. In 1994, the museum was transferred to the subordination of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The museum building was renovated, and original expositions were organized in its premises.

The museum's mineralogical collection is one of the three largest collections in Russia. For more than two hundred years, some of the exhibits of this museum exposition have been visual aids for teaching students of Moscow University and the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. The collection of the museum contains samples that are the reference material for mineral species. It contains samples of minerals from discovered deposits. Ilmenite - from the open Ilmen deposit in the reserve of the same name, joseite - from Sao Jose, etc.

To date, the museum has almost 60 thousand exhibits, samples of 1100 types of minerals. The museum collection contains samples from 5000 deposits. Throughout the museum's 200-year history, its funds have been continuously replenished by patrons, statesmen, scientists and students.

Unique samples of minerals are presented in the museum. Thus, a 1 meter high phlogopite crystal from Slyudyanka, mined in 1929, is the largest in Russia. A huge (more than 60 cm long) prismatic crystal of apatite entered the museum from the same deposit. A slab of native copper, mined in Kazakhstan, weighs about five hundred kilograms. A lump of malachite from the Urals weighs 200 kg. The lump was donated by one of the Demidovs and displayed on a special pedestal. A huge core of rock salt was brought from Donbass. It is 80 centimeters in diameter and 1.2 meters high. The exposition contains rare, unique in size oripigment crystals,

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