State Darwin Museum
117292, Moscow, Vavilova str., 57
About the company:
The State Darwin Museum, founded in 1907 by Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Alexander Fedorovich Kots, is the largest natural science museum, the area of which is more than 20 thousand square kilometers, with collections, which include about 400 thousand museum items.
The future Darwin Museum was started by the preparations of birds made by Alexander Fedorovich at the age of nineteen, presented at the fourteenth exhibition of the All-Russian Acclimatization Society, which brought Alexander recognition of his taxidermic skills and a silver medal.
Among the exhibits of the museum you will find all kinds of life on Earth - from the simplest organisms to the crown of creation of nature - man. Especially for children, the museum exhibits samples of the skin of a wolf, bear and other animals that they can touch.
In one of the halls there are automata with buttons depicting various birds, clicking on which you will hear simulated voices of these birds, and you can also use "live scales" and find out your weight in mice, cats, bears and elephants.