State Darwinovsky - so officially called the largest in Europe zoological museum, most visitors who call it simply the Museum of Darwin. The museum was opened more than a hundred years ago by Professor Cotes, in order to satisfy people's craving for knowledge of nature and the reasons for the diversity of living things.
Immediately upon arrival to the museum, a complete immersion in the history of the development of our planet begins. Inspection should begin from the central hall. If you're lucky, you can immediately get to the demonstration of the film about the birth and development of life on the planet. The film is shown right on the walls of the hall, the light is extinguished, and visitors are transported millions of years ago to see with their own eyes a big explosion, the formation of the moon, the birth and death of dinosaurs, and, finally, the birth of mankind.
At the end of the viewing, special attention should be given directly to the central hall, in which, in addition to representatives of a diverse animal world, the first bathyscaphe was comfortably arranged, in the window-portholes of which one can view the water world, starting from the staggering walrus and ending with unusual shells and algae.
It must be said that moving around the museum is worth looking under your feet, t .to.sometimes there are portholes on the floor in which you can see something complementary to the exposition (for example, the dinosaur baby's track or the fossil period fossil) .Particularly attentive visitors can also find petroglyphic drawings of Neanderthals on the ceiling, and on the walls - small vstavochki (almost like Alice) "pat me" .The bold kid, having fulfilled the request, will be able not only to look at the animals, but also to understand how the fur of the brown fox differs from that of the Russian fox .
In addition to the striking exposure of the animal world of the planet, the museum is pleased with the diversity of the fauna of the central strip of Russia. It's one thing exotic animals that visitors saw only in the zoo and pictures of books, and quite another - to see 150 representatives of different species of our native foxes or several kinds of sweet tooth-toptigina.
In the museum you can safely come even with the youngest children, they will be especially interesting there, because in the halls you can see the models of moving dinosaurs (causing a special storm of emotions in small visitors), listen to the buzzing of different insects, the singing of birds or the growl of animals by clicking on the appropriate buttons on special stands in the hall. Or stand on a special scales, and find out how many mice, foxes or elephants are in you.
Visitors will be interested in going through the halls dedicated to dinosaurs and arranged in such a way that you can touch the fossils of different periods, answer the proposed questions, try to scrape the animal's skin (as our ancestors did), compare your track with the dinosaur's track and take it with you Impression print with a picture of a dino.
For those who want to learn even more, the museum has a 3D cinema where the thematic films are held.
In addition to the main exposition, various exhibitions are regularly held in the museum, the timetable of which can be found on the official website www.darwin.museum.ru.
Coordinates of the museum
Address: Moscow, st. Vavilova, 57
Directions: Art. m. "Akademicheskaya"
Phone: (499) 783-2253
Working hours: from 10:00 to 18:00, every day except Monday and last Friday of each month. The exhibition complex is open on Tuesdays from 11:00 to 19:00.
Admission: adults 150 rubles, preferential 20 rubles, exhibition complex 70 rubles. Single ticket 150r., Photo / video 80p.
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