Permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Nature of the Urals

About exhibition

The museum's permanent exhibition presents the oldest natural history collection of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, which its founders began assembling more than 150 years ago. Over that time staff have collected over 60,000 items. In an hour or two you can take a journey across the Sverdlovsk Region from Denezhkin Kamen Mountain in the north to the Alexandrovskie Hills in the south, explore the paleontological and geological collections and the oddities of the cabinet of curiosities. Visitors are consistently drawn to the Solar System model and the jaw of the Helicoprion shark; the mammoth skeleton discovered in 1897 and the skeleton of a broad‑horned deer; a half‑ton malachite boulder and Ural gems; taxidermied sculptures of endangered animals; a collection of more than 670 insect species; unique bas‑relief paintings by Franz Schillinger; the taxidermied long‑lived Nile crocodile Kolya from the Yekaterinburg Zoo; and other natural wonders.