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Mining Museum of Saint Petersburg Mining University
About museum
The Mining Museum of the Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute is one of the oldest museums in Russia. It was founded in 1773 along with the Mining School. The museum houses more than 230,000 specimens collected from 80 countries worldwide. It is a unique collection of minerals, meteorites, geological-stratigraphic and paleontological collections, models related to mining and metallurgical practice of the 18th–19th centuries, cold weapons produced at the Zlatoust Armory, and jewelry by K. Fabergé. The institute's main library contains about 1.5 million publications. The museum occupies 20 halls with a total area of 2,800 sq. m. It was included in the State Register of Especially Valuable Objects in 1996. The museum is organized into three departments: Mineralogy, Geology, and the History of Mining and Metallurgical Technology. The Mining Museum is the custodian of rich and rare collections and has great scientific and historical significance for our country.
Museum features
Дата основания
1773 год
Посетители
24000
Единиц хранения
240000
Бюджетный статус
departmental
Классификация организации
non-profit institution
Предметы музея
Natural crystal collection - more than 2,300 specimens. Systematic collection of A.E. Kupffer - more than 3,000 specimens. Mineralogical collection of N.M. Leichtenberg-Romanovsky - about 1,000 specimens (part of the systematic collection). Meteorite collection - more than 350 names, 1,005 specimens. Authored monographic paleontological collections - 60 authors, 138 collections, more than 8,000 specimens. Collection of rocks and fauna from the environs of Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk) - assemblages of P.M. Yazykov (1874) - more than 1,500 specimens. Regional petrographic collections of the 19th century: rocks from the environs of Naples (1829) - a gift from Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna - 183 specimens; lavas of Vesuvius (1858) - a gift from Professor V. Beck - 58 specimens; rocks of Mount Etna (1846) - a gift from Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - 90 specimens; rocks of the Tian Shan (1856) - collected and donated by Academician P.P. Semenov-Tian-Shansky - 340 specimens. Collection of mock-ups and models of mining and metallurgical machinery of the 18th - early 20th centuries - 1,622 items. Collection of cold weapons of the Zlatoust Armory from the 19th century (masters: V. Yuzhakov, K. Wolferz, A. Kunz, Boyarshinov family, Bushuev family, Shaafs, etc.) - 192 items. Collection of miniature works by the firm of K. Fabergé - 20 items. Collection of applied art objects made of metal and stone from various factories and cutting workshops - more than 4,000 items; the most notable objects of the holdings.
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Mining Museum of Saint Petersburg Mining University
г Санкт-Петербург, линия 21-я В.О., д 2
г Санкт-Петербург, линия 21-я В.О., д 2