🖼 Darwin Museum

ул. Вавилова, 57

A large museum of evolution with stuffed animals, dioramas and interactive exhibits about nature.

The museum was founded in 1907 by the biologist Alexander Kots, who moved his collection of stuffed animals to the Higher Women's Courses.
The idea came to Kots after visiting the Darwin Hall of the British Museum.
The animal painter Vasily Vatagin worked with Kots, and a Moscow school of animal painters formed around the museum.
The first building for the museum on 2nd Frunzenskaya was almost finished but was given to the Bolshoi Theatre's choreographic school.
The building on Vavilov Street was under construction from 1974 for more than 20 years; the first permanent exhibition opened in 1995.
It holds the world's largest collection of aberrants, animals and birds with unusual colouring.
The museum's collections number more than 400,000 items.

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