Paleontological Museum of SPbU

The Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum was founded in 1868 by the first professor of geology of the University A.A. Inostrantsev as a Geological Cabinet. The core of the museum collections is the collection of one of the founders of domestic paleontology - E.I. Eichvaldak and his capital work "Paleontology of Russia", which contains descriptions of more than a thousand new species from different groups of extinct organisms. The museum contains fossils and sedimentary rocks representing the documentary paleontological and stratigraphic chronicle of the Earth’s development. The museum has more than 22 thousand fossils of plants and animals, as well as sedimentary rocks.