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Vernadsky State Geological Museum

Coordinates: 55°45′22.22″N 37°36′40.55″E / 55.7561722°N 37.6112639°E / 55.7561722; 37.6112639
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The Vernadsky State
Geological Museum
Vernadsky State Geological Museum is located in Central Moscow
Vernadsky State Geological Museum
Location in Central Moscow
Established1988
Typeearth science and educational centre of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Collectionsminerals, rocks, fossils
OwnerRussian Academy of Sciences
Nearest parkingno

The Vernadsky State Geological Museum is the geological museum in Moscow. Mineralogical collection was founded in 1755 and is now an earth sciences and educational centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

History

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Mikhail Lomonosov had studied mining principles in Germany, concluding that "it is necessary to use not only books, but objects of Nature", and it was he who came up with the principals of the charter of Moscow Imperial University, founded in January 1755, and for the founding of its mineralogical collection.

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55°45′22.22″N 37°36′40.55″E / 55.7561722°N 37.6112639°E / 55.7561722; 37.6112639