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      🖼 Paleontological Museum

      Профсоюзная ул., 123

      A museum in a red-brick building with an inner courtyard, one of the largest paleontological museums in the world.

      Paleontological Museum
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      • The collection dates back to 1716, when bones of Ice Age animals began arriving at St Petersburg's Kunstkamera.
      • The Moscow museum opened in 1937, and since 1966 it has borne the name of the paleontologist Yuri Orlov.
      • The current Neo-Brutalist building was designed by Yuri Platonov's team; the museum opened in it in 1987.
      • The inner surface of the eight-metre tower is covered by a 500 m² ceramic panel, The Tree of Life, by Alexander Belashov.
      • The mammoth skeleton in the entrance hall was found in 1842 on the Gydan Peninsula.
      • The North Dvina Gallery has seven complete skeletons of pareiasaurs, found by Vladimir Amalitsky in the late 19th century.
      • The only living exhibit is a cyanobacterial mat from a lake in the Altai region.

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      • Dinosaurs and evolution
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