Botanical Museum of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS

Our museum is one of the oldest in St. Petersburg and Russia: the date of its foundation is considered to be 1823. Currently, the Botanical Museum is a department of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; it is located on the Pharmacy Island, on the territory of the Botanical Garden.

The funds of the Botanical Museum were created by the largest domestic scientists F.B. Fischer, N.M. Przhevalsky, P.K. Kozlov, F.I. Ruprecht, K.I. Maksimovich, N.A. Monteverde, P.I. Lipsky, V.L. Komarov, P.P. Zhukovsky, N.I. Vavilov, P.A. Baranov, L.E. Rodin, A.L. Takhtajian and many others. The history of the museum is closely intertwined with the history of Russian botany.

The expositions of the Botanical Museum are devoted to the vegetation of the globe, the evolution of the plant world, the place of plants in human life. The museum regularly hosts art and popular science temporary exhibitions, the theme of which is related to the world of plants.

The extensive collections of the Botanical Museum are divided into the Dendrological Collection, which includes wood samples, the Carpologic (fruit and seed samples) and the Paleobotanical (fossil plant samples) collection, as well as the Economic Botanical Collection (it contains plants used by man, various products and products from them). In addition to these sections, the collections of the museum include the Photo Library and the Archive - about 10 thousand negatives, photos and documents of the XIX-early XX century.

On the basis of the rich collections of the Botanical Museum, its employees conduct research on anatomy, morphology, systematics and evolution and various groups of plants.