Undorovsky Paleontological Museum named after S.E. Biryukov

About museum

The Undorovsky Paleontological Museum is the first museum in Russia established at a site containing fossil fauna from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It was opened in 1981 as a school museum. In 1987 it was converted into a people's museum and housed in the building of a former boarding school. On November 11, 1990, the museum became a branch of the Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 2012 it was granted the status of a regional state budgetary cultural institution. Since January 10, 2018, the museum's director has been Ilya Mikhailovich Stenshin. The museum carries out educational and scientific research activities, offers guided tours, and identifies, collects, studies, and preserves fossil paleontological material. The museum has become one of the priority directions of the Ulyanovsk State Paleontological Reserve.