Zoological Museum (Saint Petersburg)
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Established | 1931 |
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Location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Coordinates | 59°56′32.54″N 30°18′19.64″E / 59.9423722°N 30.3054556°E |
Website | Official Site (in Russian) |
59°56′33″N 30°18′20″E / 59.9426°N 30.3056°E The Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian museum devoted to zoology. It is located in Saint Petersburg, on Universitetskaya Embankment. It is one of the ten largest nature history museums in the world.[citation needed]
Peter the Great's
In 1766, Peter Simon Pallas, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was appointed curator of Zoology. In 1832, the zoological collection was split from the Kunstkamera and, in 1896, moved nearby to its present location in the former southern warehouse of the Saint Petersburg bourse (constructed in 1826-1832). In 1931, the Zoological Institute was established within the Academy of Sciences, which included the museum.
In the front hall of the museum is a monument to
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The enormous skeleton of a blue whale
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Entomological collection
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Mounted herons
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Nematodes
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The only mounted mammoth in the world[citation needed]
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A small diorama
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Baby mammoth Dima
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Grey wolf and golden jackal
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Mammoth skeleton
Sources
- Hill, James (12 November 2018). "A 'Time Capsule' for Scientists, Courtesy of Peter the Great". New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
External links
- Official Site (in Russian)
- Collections
- Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg)