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New arrival - animalistic graphics by G. N. Glikman

New arrival - animalistic graphics by G. N. Glikman

8 August 2022 The collection of the museum has been replenished with three works by the animal painter Gennady Naumovich Glikman. These are the monotypes “Two Coots”, “Breeze. Gray heron" and "It's cold. Gray Crow and Raven”, which was made by the artist in the 1960s using watercolors and ...

New arrival - stuffed ribboned rope squirrel (Funisciurus lemniscatus Le Conte, 1857)

New arrival - stuffed ribboned rope squirrel (Funisciurus lemniscatus Le Conte, 1857)

27 July 2022 A stuffed ribboned rope squirrel (Funisciurus lemniscatus Le Conte, 1857) shows us an animal which belongs to a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Representatives of this species are found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Eq ...

New arrival - Hamburg silver rooster

New arrival - Hamburg silver rooster

20 July 2022 The collection of the museum has been replenished with a new exhibit. It is a stuffed animal of a rather rare breed of chickens - the Hamburg silver chicken. This is meat and egg breed of chickens. It was bred at the beginning of the 17th century by crossing Lancashire moon, York ...

200th anniversary of Gregor Mendel

200th anniversary of Gregor Mendel

20 July 2022 On July 20th, exactly 200 years ago the "father" of genetics Gregor Johann Mendel was born. In 1856 he began to conduct experiments on crossing plants, peas in particular, which he grew in the monastery garden. The results of Mendel's experiments, which formed the basis of m ...

Gift from L.P. Duvidova - painting "Valdai"

Gift from L.P. Duvidova - painting "Valdai"

14 July 2022 Lidia Pavlovna Duvidova, widow of the artist V.A. Duvidov, visited the exhibition “Moscow of Viktor Duvidov. To the 90th anniversary of the artist Viktor Aronovich Duvidov” and donated the painting of her husband to the museum. V.A. Duvidov (July 8, 1932, Spain - February 21, 200 ...

Gift to the museum - elk antlers (Alces alces Linnaeus, 1758) on the medallion

Gift to the museum - elk antlers (Alces alces Linnaeus, 1758) on the medallion

12 July 2022 The museum's collection has been replenished with a wonderful specimen of elk antlers (Alces alces Linnaeus, 1758), obtained in 2006 in Buryatia by Vitaly Pavlovich Antonov-Druzhinin. The horns were prepared and mounted on the medallion in the taxidermy workshop "Author&apos ...

New arrival - Pavlovskaya golden rooster

New arrival - Pavlovskaya golden rooster

29 June 2022 The museum's collection has been replenished with a new exhibit. It is a stuffed rare breed of chickens - Pavlovskaya golden. The most unusual ornamental chickens include Pavlovian chickens, since these birds are more like pheasants than chickens. These chickens gained world ...

New arrival - stuffed European hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778)

New arrival - stuffed European hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778)

24 June 2022 A stuffed young male European hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778), which came to us from a nursery in the village of Kalabino, Lipetsk Region, was made by our taxidermists. European hare is referred to large hares weighing up to 6-7 kg. The largest species are found in the north. ...

New arrival - stuffed black-necked aracari

New arrival - stuffed black-necked aracari

17 June 2022 The museum's ornithological collection has been replenished with two stuffed tropical birds from the toucan family – the black-necked aracari (Pteroglossus aracari Linnaeus, 1758). These inhabitants of South America, common in the rainforests of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana ...

New arrival - stuffed Japanese quail

New arrival - stuffed Japanese quail

14 June 2022 The museum's collection has been replenished with a remarkable specimen of the coturnix quail (Coturnix japonica Temminck et Schlegel, 1849), caught in 2009 by Vitaly Pavlovich Antonov-Druzhinin. Stuffed bird was made in the taxidermy workshop "Author's mannequins" and ...

New arrival - corncrake skull

New arrival - corncrake skull

10 June 2022 The skull was made by taxidermist Viktor Levterev from material obtained from the Moscow Zoo. Corncrake (Crex crex Linnaeus, 1758) is a small bird of the rails family. It nests in moist tall-grass meadows, densely overgrown shrubby marshes, sown arable and other open landscapes i ...

Gift to the museum from D.A. Bozhukov - anomalous antlers of a roe deer

Gift to the museum from D.A. Bozhukov - anomalous antlers of a roe deer

1 June 2022 The museum expresses deep gratitude to Dmitry Anatolyevich Bozhukov for replenishing the collection of the museum with some interesting exhibits. Dmitry kindly donated the anomalous antlers of a roe deer, which he had acquired several years ago for his personal collection. One sp ...

New Arrival - a paleontological reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus Rex Scotty (RSM P2523.8) at 1:18 scale

New Arrival - a paleontological reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus Rex Scotty (RSM P2523.8) at 1:18 scale

19 May 2022 The collection of casts and replicas of the museum has been replenished with a paleoreconstruction of tyrannosaurus on scale of 1:18 of amazing quality and accuracy. The 3D reconstruction was made by the remarkable paleoreconstructor Vladislav Andreevich Konstantinov. 3D printing ...

Birthday of the founder of the State Darwin Museum

Birthday of the founder of the State Darwin Museum

19 April 2022 Alexander Fedorovich Kohts, the founder of the State Darwin Museum, was born on April 19, 1880. Until the last days of his life he has headed the only museum of evolutionary history in Russia. One can only guess how he has managed to keep the museum so rich in disturbing events o ...

Collaboration Agreement with the Alagoas State University of Health Sciences (UNCISAL)

Collaboration Agreement with the Alagoas State University of Health Sciences (UNCISAL)

14 April 2022 The State Darwin Museum is always open for cooperation, it actively helps scientists and researchers, as well as cultural and scientific institutions from other countries. July 2018, at the invitation of foreign colleagues the director of the Darwin Museum Anna Klyukina gave lect ...

Gift to the museum from Victoria Chernenko - porcelain animalistic sculptures

Gift to the museum from Victoria Chernenko - porcelain animalistic sculptures

11 April 2022 The associate professor of the Department of Museology of Faculty of History of Art RSUH, the head of scientific and exposition department of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum, the candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, the full member of the Academy of Mining Sc ...

Stuffed Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling

Stuffed Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling

7 April 2022 Our taxidermists have made and added to the collection of the museum a stuffed rare bird - Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus Swainson, 1838). It is an African bird found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democrat ...

The grand opening of the exhibition "The path of love for animals"

The grand opening of the exhibition "The path of love for animals"

31 March 2022 On March 31, the exhibition “The path of love for animals” was solemnly opened with dedication to the 110th anniversary of the artist-animalist V.V. Trofimov. Vadim Trofimov was the master of animalistic graphics and sculpture, the founder of the animalistic section the Moscow br ...

Gift to the museum from V.D. Erdyneev - an author’s bronze sculpture «Mirage I»

Gift to the museum from V.D. Erdyneev - an author’s bronze sculpture «Mirage I»

30 March 2022 The modern artist and the sculptor-animalist Viktor Erdyneev donated to the State Darwin Museum his author's bronze sculpture "Mirage I". Previously, this work has been shown at the «Bestiary-2014» exhibition and has received the audience sympathies Award for the «Beauty of ...

The grand opening of the exhibition "Pareiasaurs of Vyatka" of the Paleontological Museum of Vyatka

The grand opening of the exhibition "Pareiasaurs of Vyatka" of the Paleontological Museum of Vyatka

30 March 2022 On March 30, the exhibition "Pareiasaurs of Vyatka" was solemnly opened. For the first time, the Darwin Museum exhibits unique paleo-finds from Kotelnich – one of the world's largest locations of pareiasaurs that lived 260 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs. More t ...