K.A. Timiryazev Biological Museum

K.A. Timiryazev State Biological Museum is a complex natural-scientific museum, founded in 1922 on the basis of the Museum of Wildlife of the A.L. Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University.

The museum acts as a scientific, educational and artistic and aesthetic center "Man and Nature". The unique collection of funds has more than 60 thousand units of storage. The museum contains the most complete collection of sculptures on anthropogenesis. A unique part of the fund also consists of collections of works of graphics, sculpture and painting; models of mushrooms of domestic and foreign microflora; biological groups, shells of mollusks and corals, insects. The museum holds more than 60 themes of excursions and 20 lectures on biology and ecology for visitors of different ages, a variety of family recreation programs. Many excursions are accompanied by video demonstrations and experiments. Museum clubs unite lovers of orchids, cacti, minerals, flower arrangement, a circle of young paleontologists works.

The buildings were built in the Russian style, with a variety of brick decor, tiled inserts, tent roofing finishes, in 1896 and 1898 according to the projects of architects V.V.Freidenberg and A.I.Erickson. They are a single architectural complex.