Nature Museum

The exposition of the museum tells about the history of the formation of natural zones of the Urals, paleontology, geology, zoology, botany, ecology of the Ural region.

The age of the most ancient samples of minerals and rocks of the period of the formation of the Ural Mountains, presented in the exhibition, is about two billion years. A great impression is made by the skeletons of extinct giant animals of the Ice Age - the mammoth and the wide-horned deer.

The exposition contains ten dioramas showing scenes from the natural life of animals, corners of wildlife, the modern ecosystem of the city. In the halls of the museum there are stuffed animals, paleontological, ornithological, entomological, botanical, etc. collections. A special pride of the geological collection is the lump of malachite - the largest preserved in its original form Ural find of this mineral.

In the Cabinet of Rarities of the museum, the stuffed crocodile of the world's oldest crocodile is exhibited - a long-liver of the legendary Koli Yekaterinburg Zoo.