Academician F.N. Chernyshev Central Geological Research Museum
Visit one of the largest natural history museums in the world!
Academician F.N. Chernyshev Central Geological Research Museum
Visit one of the largest natural history museums in the world!
Today, the TsNIGR Museum is one of the largest natural history museums in the world.
The museum’s collections number more than 1 million individual items. In its exhibition halls of total area of 3,750 m2, over 80,000 samples of minerals, rocks, ores, fossil fauna and flora are exhibited.
The museum was founded in 1882 at the Geological Committee of Russia and was supposed to illustrate national geology using sheets of geological maps at a scale of ten verst to the inch. In 1930, the museum was open to visitors. In the same year, the museum was named after Academician F.N. Chernyshev, who made an invaluable contribution to the creation of the museum.
The museum was founded in 1882 at the Geological Committee of Russia and was supposed to illustrate national geology using sheets of geological maps at a scale of ten verst to the inch. In 1930, the museum was open to visitors. In the same year, the museum was named after Academician F.N. Chernyshev, who made an invaluable contribution to the creation of the museum.
The museum’s exposition consists of three major exhibition blocks: «Regional Geology», «Minerals» and «Monographic Paleontology»
Russia's largest scientific fund for the storage of primary petrographic material
Peculiarities
There is a thin-section library in the museum, large and the only scientific storage of primary petrographic material in Russia with 1,400 petrographic collections (over 350,000 thin sections) for printed and archive materials on regional geology, metallogeny, mineralogy, petrography, including those to monographs of prominent geologists: A.K. Boldyrev, A.N. Zavaritsky, A.P. Karpinsky, V.N. Lodochnikov and many others.
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Peculiarities
Exhibitions in the museum
Discover the wonderful world of stone at the exhibition "Stone Etudes" in our museum
«Stone Etudes»
Visit one of the most beautiful and amazing exhibitions of our museum - "The Magic of Gems"
«Magic of Gems»
An exhibition that will introduce a large-scale collection of minerals that captivate the eye with their cosmic appearance
«Agates»
Variety of natural mineral paints and pigments
«Mineral Paints»
Meteorites attract all lovers of the unusual and mysterious - after all, this is an opportunity to observe a piece of space and join the Universe
«Meteorites»
More than 70 varieties of natural and building stone used in the construction of St. Petersburg are presented
«Building and Facing Stone in the Architecture of St. Petersburg of the 18th - early 20th Centuries»
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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Central Research Geological Prospecting Museum named after Academician F.N. Chernyshev (TsNIGR MUSEUM)
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Phone:
+7 (812) 321-53-99
Address:
74, Sredny pr., St. Petersburg, 199106, Russia
E-mail:
cnigr_museum@vsegei.ru
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