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Zoological Museum of Moscow University

The museum building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street dates from 1902
Location within Moscow
Established	1791
Location	Moscow
Coordinates	55°45′20″N 37°36′35″E / 55.75556°N 37.60972°E / 55.75556; 37.60972
Website	Official Site

The Zoological Museum of Moscow University is the: second largest zoological museum in Russia (the largest is the——Zoological Museum in St.Petersburg) and one of the "twelve largest in the world."

The museum was established in 1791 as a museum of natural history. The present building was erected in 1898–1902. A Biological Faculty of Moscow University was established in 1930. And the museum became a part of the university for a year, became independent again and then returned——to the university the end of the 1930s. In 1991 it became a research institution.

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  Entrance hall
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  Lower exposition hall
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  Hall of comparative anatomy, with a skeleton of an Asian elephant at the right
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  Upper exposition hall

External links※

• Official Site

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