Collection |
Main Fund |
Scientific
Auxiliary Fund |
In total |
Short characteristic |
Animal artworks |
|
|
|
The museum
keeps the largest in Russia collection of animal paintings, graphics,
sculptures and other artworks created by such renowned artists as V.V.
Vatagin, A.N. Komarov, V.V. Trofimov, K.K. Flerov, V.A. Belyshev, D.V.
Gorlov, M.D. Yezuchevskiy, N.N. Kondakov, A.N. Formozov and others. |
Paintings |
724 |
1185 |
1909 |
|
Graphics |
4030 |
5759 |
9789 |
|
Sculpture |
844 |
868 |
1712 |
|
Applied arts |
143 |
737 |
880 |
|
Posters, postcards, philately |
153 |
3874 |
4027 |
The fund includes vintage posters, old and modern environmental posters,
postcards designed by famous artists in animal painting. |
Archaeology: early tools used by
ancient humans |
2241 |
206 |
2447 |
|
Ethnography |
119 |
51 |
170 |
|
Rare books |
8984 |
4 |
8988 |
The fund includes rare books composed by the most prominent scientists of
the XVI-XX centuries such as Conrad Gessner, Charles Darwin, Pierre Belon,
Friedrich von Humboldt, Samuel Gmelin, Ivan Lepyokhin, Nikolai Severtsov,
John Audubon and many others. |
Archival fund |
|
|
|
|
Archive |
8291 |
4862 |
13153 |
|
Medals, awards |
91 |
219 |
310 |
The fund includes government awards given to the founder of the museum
and medals awarded to particular items at the international exhibitions. The auxiliary fund mainly keeps medals awarded to dogs and cats. The
medals were given to the museum by the owners after decease of the
animals. |
Numismatics |
101 |
0 |
101 |
|
Cliche |
0 |
95 |
95 |
|
DVD-movies |
0 |
34 |
34 |
Includes a collection of films about the history of the museum. |
Memorial items |
161 |
1497 |
1658 |
|
Cinematic, photo and video documents |
|
|
|
|
Photographs |
509 |
10256 |
10765 |
A.F. Kohts collected a huge selection of photos documenting all
experiments conducted by his wife N.N.
Ladygina –Kohts and all other important events taking place in the museum. |
Negatives, slides |
13 |
482 |
495 |
|
Digital discs – photo |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Cinematic materials |
7 |
36 |
43 |
|
Video materials |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Collection of sound records |
0 |
394 |
394 |
There is a continuously developing collection of animal sounds in the
museum. |
Natural science collection |
|
|
|
|
Stuffed mammals |
2117 |
481 |
2598 |
|
Stuffed birds |
5657 |
925 |
6582 |
|
Stuffed fish |
58 |
236 |
294 |
|
Stuffed amphibians and reptiles |
66 |
232 |
298 |
|
Study skins of birds |
4498 |
3051 |
7549 |
|
Study skins of mammals |
2449 |
208 |
2657 |
|
Crustaceans |
734 |
148 |
882 |
|
Shells of
molluscs |
17613 |
4043 |
21656 |
|
Marine invertebrates |
792 |
331 |
1123 |
|
Osteological materials |
684 |
1494 |
2178 |
|
Ornithological materials (eggs, nests) |
3541 |
1305 |
4846 |
|
Wet materials |
1515 |
1817 |
3332 |
|
Entomological materials, arachnids |
77129 |
66598 |
143727 |
|
Paleontology |
3933 |
15452 |
19385 |
|
Fossil
shark teeth |
112991 |
19 |
113010 |
|
Geological materials |
0 |
286 |
286 |
|
Botanical materials |
853 |
1178 |
2031 |
|
Skins of mammals |
532 |
699 |
1231 |
|
Skins of reptiles |
1 |
47 |
48 |
|
Mammals - various items |
2 |
27 |
29 |
|
Items made of skins of reptiles |
0 |
151 |
151 |
The collection is mainly presented by the objects given to the museum by
the Sheremetyevo customs. This includes various items made of crocodile
leather or skins of rare animals. |
Amphibians, reptiles (eggs) |
0 |
4 |
4 |
|
Fishing gears |
17 |
117 |
134 |
|
Casts and models |
285 |
1192 |
1477 |
|
Frames |
24 |
6 |
30 |
|
In total: |
261902 |
130608 |
392510 |
|