Permanent exhibition of the V. N. Dav Colored Stone Museum

About exhibition

The Colored Stone Museum was established on the initiative of geologist Vladimir Nikolaevich Dav in 1971. Visiting the museum's permanent exhibition, you will gain a complete understanding of colored stone. The museum's four exhibitions display minerals of great beauty and natural perfection, samples of precious ores, and decorative rocks. The exhibition "Colored Stones of Russia and the Countries of the World" introduces minerals and rocks used in jewelry and lapidary work and in decorative-art crafts. The "Classic Collection" exhibition is organized according to the systematics accepted in mineralogy. More than 2,000 specimens from various regions of the planet represent all classes of minerals. At the core of the exhibition is the collection of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Ivan Ilyich Chupilin. The museum exhibition "Facets of a Personality" presents the biography of the museum's founder V. N. Dav. The tactile exhibition "The World of Stone in the Palm" consists of eight special exhibits for tactile inspection by blind visitors.