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