🖼 MSU Zoological Museum

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A museum in a 19th-century building with huge halls, display cases and skeletons of large animals.

The official founding date is 1791, when the university's Natural History Cabinet was turned into a museum.
The core of the collection is that of Akinfy Demidov, bought in the 1740s from the Freiberg mineralogist Johann Henkel.
In 1804 Gotthelf Fischer became head of the museum, and in 1805 he initiated the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
The building, designed by Konstantin Bykovsky, was completed by 1902, one of the first in Moscow built specifically for a museum.
The collections number more than 10 million items, about 3 million of them insects.

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