What to do and see in District Central (TsAO), Central Russia: The Best Science Museums

Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the oldest center of geoscience and education in Moscow. The Museum is involved in geological, mining, and ecological researches. Scheduled and special excursions are available. There are lectures, classes, scientific meetings, exhibitions and entertainment in the Museum's program. Gift shop and café are available.

Zoological Museum of Moscow state University. M. V. Lomonosov is the oldest and largest University Museum in Russia. Founded in 1791 as the Cabinet of natural history at the Moscow Imperial University. By the end of the 19th century the number of exhibits in its collections was so great that for their accommodation by the project of academician of architecture K. M. Bykov was built a special building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, striking in its beauty even the most sophisticated audience. Museum visitors will find an expansive exposition of the approximately 10 000 exhibits that illustrate the diversity of the living world of the planet: they are representatives of all groups of animals, from unicellular organisms to birds and mammals. Animals arranged in systematic order, type for type, the order after order, in accordance with the perceptions of their degree of kinship and on the course of evolution. Maintain the traditional order of arrangement of the exhibits in accordance with the natural system that lets you easily navigate to any section of the collection. Welcome guests to two of the largest exhibit located in the lobby of the Museum. Near the stairs leading to the halls of the second floor, mounted skeleton of a woolly mammoth, one of the few exhibits of the Zoological Museum, which formally can not be attributed to modern fauna. The skeleton of this authentic, one of the most complete skeletons of a mammoth, stored in the natural science museums in Russia. The right of the lobby on the way to the Lower hall of the Museum is a stuffed Indian elephant Molly, darling visitors of the Moscow zoo in the last century. The main variety of animals, from unicellular to reptiles is concentrated in the Lower hall on the first floor of the Museum. Here are exhibitions of insects, animals lower chordates, fish, amphibians and reptiles, invertebrates, as well as a display of the new part of the permanent Museum exhibition - exposition "Communities of hydrothermal vents". Above it is the Upper hall, he entirely reserved for an exhibition about the diversity of birds and mammals. Most of the exhibits is in accordance with the systematic position, but there are some biograpy where animals and birds presented in their natural habitat. Also on the second floor houses the Hall of comparative anatomy (so-called Bone hall), which exhibits are devoted to questions of evolutionary morphology of vertebrates, i.e. changes in their structure in the course of historical development. In the hallway of the second floor is the exhibition "Zoological Museum of history of Moscow University: collections and people", dedicated to the history of the Museum from its founding in 1791 to the present day. The lobby and halls of the Museum with hundreds of paintings and murals of famous painters of animals, artworks which complement and illustrate the group of natural objects in their natural habitat. Zoological Museum of the Moscow University has the status of a scientific and educational institution. In this intensive scientific work, leading experts examine various aspects of the diversity of modern animals. Experienced guides conduct tours and interactive sessions, designed for visitors of all ages. The Museum has a lecture hall, where our young guests and their parents prepared and served in a popular form important biological information, and are also unique popular scientific lectures designed for the widest audience. The Museum has a circle of young naturalists in which children get not only theoretical knowledge of Zoology, but also travel regularly to field practice. Even on weekends he worked as a Scientific terrarium with an extensive collection of live reptiles where you can hold in your hands living argama or feed the chameleon, and the lecturers of the terrarium presented in detail tell about the animals.

This place is temporarily closed Now the museum building, built almost half a century ago in the New Square in Moscow, is closed for renovation until 2018. Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, is one of the oldest science museums in the world that emphasizes the progress of Russian and Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions and developments. Now the museum building, built almost half a century ago in the New Square in Moscow, is closed for renovation until 2018.During the reconstruction period of the historical Museum building on Novaya Square, the Museum's main exhibition 'Rossiya Delaet Sama' is situated on VDNH in the 26th Pavilion.