Timiryazev. State Biological Museum named after
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Membership in organizations:
Association of Natural History Museums of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums - R32
Regional public organization "Association of Museum Teachers" - R135
Russian National Committee of the International Council of Museums - ICOM Russia - R158
Non-profit partnership "Automation of Museum Activities and Information Technologies" (ADIT) - R297
Partner organizations:
State Museum of Livestock. E.F. Liskun - M295
Hunting and Fishing Museum - M383
Museum-Reserve "Dmitrov Kremlin" - M448
Museum and Exhibition Complex of Novotroitsk - M1088
Samara Literary and Memorial Museum M. Gorky - M1944
Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry S.G. Stroganov - R13
Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov - R58
Department of Museum Affairs RIPRIKT - R338
Moscow State University of Culture and Art (MGUKI) - R345
Storage units:
over 86000
Off-site and exchange exhibitions:
Interactive exhibition "Hands". It is an installation canvas that tells about the structure, capabilities and evolution of the hand. You will find out how many bones and muscles it contains, how the joints are arranged, what features distinguish a human hand from the limbs of animals, remember the proverbs and sayings about hands, and much more.
Exhibition "Treasures of the Deep Sea". More than 500 shells of sea molluscs from the collection stored in the museum's funds are presented. Here are exhibited galliotis, or abalone, sparkling with the blue-green sheen of their mother-of-pearl, cypriots with a shiny porcelain surface decorated with a bright pattern, murexes, whose shells bear bizarre outgrowths. Also here you can see shells of deadly cones, scallops painted in all shades of the rainbow, the largest shell in the world - tridacna and many, many others. And you can also find out what are interesting about these mollusks, and how they are connected with human life.
Exhibition-game "Island of Discovery". On it, visitors can not only look at museum exhibits such as bamboo, coconut, turtle shell, crocodile, mammoth tooth, shells of mollusks and others, but also touch, pick up, twist, play with them. The exhibition is designed for group visits and individual visitors. It does not conduct any excursions, but only classes, during which the research activities of visitors, combining work with the subject and a variety of creative tasks, helps everyone - both adults and children - to experience a sense of their own discovery.
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Among the buildings on Malaya Gruzinskaya stands out big house in the pseudo-Russian style - with tiles, high "teremkovy" roofs. In the beginning. XX century it was the Museum of Russian Antiquities - one of the largest collections in Russia.
The creator of the complex was Pyotr Ivanovich Shchukin, a representative of a famous merchant family that collected art and antiquities. Three of his brothers owned large collections: Sergei - a collection of paintings by French impressionists, Dmitry - works of old European painters, Ivan - canvases by Spanish masters. Modest in everyday life, P.I.Shchukin spent huge amounts of money on his collection. Returning to Moscow from Lyon in 1878, he began with oriental art (interior items from Japan, China and India), then took up European art, but soon became interested in ancient Russian art. Having sold a house on the corner of Prechistenka and Lopukhinsky Lane, Shchukin in 1891 bought a plot for the growing collection on Malaya Gruzinskaya - the city outskirts that were beginning to be built up. They decided to build in a fashionable pseudo-Russian style.
The construction proceeded in several stages and with the participation of various architects. The first building was erected in 1892-1893. in the depths of the site. In the spirit of Yaroslavl architecture, he built an "Old Russian tower" - with a stepped hipped porch, "chess" roofs, weathercocks in the form of flags and two-headed eagles. A miniature balcony was made on the eastern facade - a copy of the balcony of the chambers of the Romanov boyars on Varvarka. The upper floor was decorated with bricks with multicolored tiles and a round medallion with a bas-relief in the shape of a winged unicorn, and the lower one was decorated with “diamond” (tetrahedral) rusticum. The interiors are similar: painting on vaults with a plant motif, tiled stoves and melons.
The collection grew rapidly. In 1896-1898. built a second building along the red line of the street - also "pseudo-Russian", but more spacious. The two buildings were connected by an underground tunnel, along the walls of which exhibits were also located. The ensemble was completed by a one-story building for a museum warehouse and archive (1905, architect F.N. Kolbe). Although the three buildings were created by different architects, they are in perfect harmony with each other.
In 1905 Shchukin donated the collection and buildings to the Historical Museum, but remained the curator of the collection and continued to replenish it. There were departments of church antiquities, weapons, fabrics, carpets, tapestries, tapestries, jewelry, dishes. Shchukin's pride was an extensive art gallery. After his death in 1912, the Museum was abolished, and the exhibits were moved to Historical Museum... Fortunately, after the revolution, the building retained its purpose: at one time it housed the funds of the Museum of Old Moscow, then there was the Museum of the Central Industrial Region, since 1928 - a student dormitory, and since 1934, at the request of M. Gorky, the complex was transferred to the Biological Museum them. Timiryazev, who is here today. A separate greenhouse was built along the "new" building.
In 2018, the Department cultural heritage the city of Moscow issued an assignment to develop a project for the restoration of the State Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev.
State Biological Museum named after K. A. Timiryazeva is an ancient natural science museum in Moscow with a rich exposition, one of the most popular places for children's excursions. It is located in an architectural monument at 15 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, where the Pyotr Shchukin Museum of Antiquities of Russia was previously located.
The approach with which the Timiryazev Biological Museum was created was fundamentally different from the idea of the other open museums of that time: the mission of the institution is to fully embrace knowledge about the science of life, not only to accumulate and store valuable materials, but also to reveal their value, taking into account biological principles. There are high requirements for the level of scientific knowledge set out in excursions.
Exposition of the Biological Museum of Moscow
The main expositions of the museum are devoted to the flora and fauna, the theory of evolution, the origin and evolution of man, his influence on the biosphere, and genetics. In total, over 75 thousand items of exhibits are now stored in the museum's funds.
Free of charge virtual tour by halls available at official website Biological Museum. Timiryazev.
The research of the working laboratory was made "alive" in the museum-lecture hall, where the employees clearly conduct experiments, and everyone who wishes can take part and study the vital activity of organisms. First of all, the task of the museum was biological practice. These principles were guided by the founder of the institution B.M. Zavadovsky. This is why visiting a museum is so exciting and so different from a "traditional" type of museum.
The museum regularly hosts thematic excursions and master classes for children and their parents, and organizes new temporary exhibitions.
Opening hours of the Biological Museum
Biological Museum. Timiryazeva works every day, except Monday, according to the following schedule:
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: from 10.00 to 18.00
- Thursday: from 12.00 to 21.00
- Sunday: from 11.00 to 18.00.
Ticket offices stop working one hour before the museum closes.
Please note that the museum is closed on the last Tuesday of each month for cleaning day.
On pre-holiday days, the opening hours of the museum are reduced by one hour.
Ticket prices
The cost of entrance tickets to the Biological Museum. Timiryazeva depends on the category:
- Full adult ticket - 280 rubles
- children (from 7 to 17 years old) and preferential (for children from 7 to 17 years old, pensioners, disabled people 3 gr, large families) tickets - 140 rubles
- children under 7 years old, students, museum workers, invalids 1 and 2 gr. - is free.
Every third Sunday of the month - free admission to the museum for all visitors.
Tickets can be purchased directly at the box office or online... Please note that the e-ticket must be printed.
The Biological Museum also offers annual passes for unlimited visits to the museum throughout the year:
- annual subscription for owner + 1 guest: 1600 rubles
- annual subscription for the owner + 2 guests: 2700 rubles.
How to get to Timiryazev Biological Museum
The museum building is conveniently located near Moscow Zoo, within walking distance from the Belorussky railway station and the Garden Ring.
From the city center and remote areas it is convenient to take the metro to Barrikadnaya (purple line) or Krasnopresnenskaya (circular metro station) stations. On foot from the metro you will reach the museum in 10-12 minutes: you will need to walk along Krasnaya Presnya Street, and then turn right onto Malaya Gruzinskaya Street.
Bus number 116 reaches the building itself. The rest of the ground transport - buses, trolleybus number 79 - stops at the intersection of Krasnaya Presnya and Malaya Gruzinskaya streets. Distance from the stop is about 300 meters.
It is convenient to drive by car along the Zvenigorodskoe highway from the suburb, and from the center - along the Garden Ring with a turn to Krasnaya Presnya Street.
To order a car, you can use taxi services applications: for example, Gett or Yandex. Taxi.
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