EARTH HISTORY MUSEUM

 The Earth History Museum is the oldest in Moscow,

founded according to the ideas of M. Lomonosov through donationsfrom the Demidovs in 1755. The museum was renewed in 1988.

It is a scientific and educational centre of Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of the Earth’s 

Our museum, keeping the collections gathered all over the world during two and a half centuries, develops Vernadsky’s doctrine on the unity of living and non-living matter, the relationship between the Earth and the cosmos, transformation of the biosphere into the noosphere (a sphere of the human mind) and human responsibility for the Earth’s environment. 

Our address: Mokhovaya str.11, bldg.2, Moscow 103009
The nearest Metro Stations: Okhotnyi Ryad, Biblioteka Lenina
Director: Belov Sergey Victorovich 
Research advisor Rundqvist Dmitry Vasil’evich, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences
Public Relations: Naumov Georgii Borisovich, Deputy Director, Professor
Open for all visitors: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 11am - 5 pm
For group bookings call 692-09-43