Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum of Saint Petersburg State University

About museum

In 1868 the Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum was founded as the Geological Cabinet by A. A. Inostrantsev, the university's first professor of geology. The basis of the museum collections is the collection of E. I. Eichwald, one of the founders of Russian paleontology, which includes more than a thousand new species from various groups of extinct organisms described in his major work "Paleontology of Russia." The museum houses fossils and sedimentary rocks that document the history of the Earth's development. The museum's holdings comprise more than 22,000 fossils of plants and animals, as well as sedimentary rocks.

Museum features

Дата основания
1873 год
Founder
A. A. Inostrantsev (1843–1919), Professor of Geology at St. Petersburg University
Бюджетный статус
departmental
Классификация организации
non-profit institution
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Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum of Saint Petersburg State University
г. Санкт-Петербург, Университетская наб., д. 7-9-11
г. Санкт-Петербург, Университетская наб., д. 7-9-11
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