🖼 Zoological Museum

Университетская наб., 1

A blue whale skeleton and a baby mammoth

It is the oldest zoological museum in Russia and one of the three largest in the world; its core was made up of the Kunstkamera collections.
The official founding date is 1832, and the museum opened in the building of the Exchange's southern warehouse on 19 February 1901.
The blue whale skeleton in the first hall is 27 m long.
The "mammoth hall" holds a mount and skeleton of the Berezovka mammoth and the mummies of the baby mammoths Dima and Masha, about 40,000 years old.
Among the rarities are the skeleton of the extinct Steller's sea cow and a mounted Tasmanian wolf.
The display collection has about 30,000 items, more than 10,000 of them insects in the gallery of the first hall.

Part of these routes