260th anniversary of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of RAS

Abstract

Vernadsky State Geological Museum of Russian Academy of Sciences is the oldest museum of natural history in Moscow. About 170 years of its history were connected with the Moscow Imperial University, and the formation of museum collections is tightly connected with the names of the outstanding Russian naturalists such as G.I. Fischer von Waldheim, G.E. Shchurovsky, A.P. Pavlova, M.V. Pavlova, V.I. Vernadsky, and their students and followers. Later, the museum was divided in two parts: Geological and Mineralogical cabinets, than they turned to the museums (Mineralogical and Geological-Paleontological museums). From 1930 to 1987 the both museums belonged to the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute, and its professors and students largely contributed to the collections. In 1987, two museums were combined to the Vernadsky State Geological Museum of RAS (SGM RAS), which now is the largest scientific and educational center in the fields of geology and mining.

Keywords

• история
• музей
• геология
• образование