Moscow Paleontological Museum

Orlov Museum of Paleontology

Location within Moscow
Established	1937
Location	123 Profsoyuznaya street, Moscow (since 1987)
Coordinates	55°37′26″N 37°30′50″E / 55.6239°N 37.5139°E / 55.6239; 37.5139
Type	Paleontology
Website	[1]

The Orlov Museum of Paleontology (Палеонтологический музей им. Ю. А. Орлова) was founded by

It contains public exhibits representing almost every type of

The museum started out as a branch of the Zoological Museum of Moscow University. When founded in 1937, the museum occupied 700 sq. m. in a building on Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street. During the

In 1944 museum was reopened for the general public, but in 1954 it was closed again due to the shortage of display space. In 1965 the

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  Protoceratops exhibit
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  Titanophoneus exhibit
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  Raphus

  exhibit
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  Tarbosaurus exhibit

External links

• Media related to Moscow Paleontological Museum at Wikimedia Commons
• Museum
• (in English and Russian) Paleontological Museum
• (in English) Review on the present state of the museum

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