Biological Museum Exhibition

About exhibition

Stepping across the threshold of the Biological Museum, visitors enter a special world where they can immerse themselves in the study of Earth's inhabitants. On display are fine taxidermy and unique specimens illustrating developmental anomalies, paleontology and botany, animal paintings and three-dimensional anthropological reconstructions, dioramas and biological group exhibits, marine shells and replicas of fungi, as well as halls entirely devoted to plants. Like an anatomical theatre, the museum's guests make a journey into the mysterious depths of the human body. The Biological Museum is located in the former estate of the collector and philanthropist P. Shchukin, the founder of the Museum of Russian Antiquities. Particular attention is drawn to the estate's architecture, built in the Russian style at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. In 1934, following a petition by M. Gorky, the estate's buildings became home to the State Biological Museum named after K. Timiryazev. The last Tuesday of every month is a sanitary day.