Mining museum

The Mining Museum of the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute is one of the oldest museums in our country, founded simultaneously with the Mining School in 1773. The museum is located in 20 halls of the Main Building of the Mining Institute. Exposition area - 2800 sq.m. There are three departments in the structure of the museum: mineralogy, geology (dynamic, historical geology, paleontology, petrography, useful hiekometami), the history of mining and mining equipment and the history fund of the Mining Institute. The museum funds number more than 230 000 samples collected from all continents and more than 80 countries of the world: a unique collection of minerals, a collection of meteorites, geological-stratigraphic and paleontological collections, the only collection in Russia of models in mining and mining XVIII-XIX centuries, a collection of cold weapons made at the Zlatoust arms factory, miniature works of the famous jewelry company K. Faberge.

The Mining Museum is an educational and scientific unit of the Mining University, not a public museum. First of all, the work takes place with students of the Mining University and to a lesser extent with an outside audience. That is why a visit to the museum is possible only as part of a tour group and by appointment.