In 1944 museum was reopened for the general public, but in 1954 it was closed again due to the shortage of display space. In 1965 the USSR Council of Ministers granted 2 million rubles for the construction of the new museum building. However, construction works started only in 1972. The renewed museum met the first visitors in 1987.
moscow, paleontological, museum, orlov, museum, paleontology, Палеонтологический, музей, им, Орлова, founded, paleontological, institute, russian, academy, sciencies, 1937, prior, xvii, session, international, geological, congress, named, after, yuri, alexandr. The Orlov Museum of Paleontology Paleontologicheskij muzej im Yu A Orlova was founded by Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciencies in 1937 prior to the XVII session of the International Geological Congress It is named after Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov 1893 1966 Orlov Museum of PaleontologyLocation within MoscowEstablished1937Location123 Profsoyuznaya street Moscow since 1987 Coordinates55 37 26 N 37 30 50 E 55 6239 N 37 5139 E 55 6239 37 5139TypePaleontologyWebsite 1 It contains public exhibits representing almost every type of fossil organism Particularly well represented are dinosaurs from Mongolia therapsids from the Perm region of Russia and Precambrian fossils from Siberia History editThe museum started out as a branch of the Zoological Museum of Moscow University When founded in 1937 the museum occupied 700 sq m in a building on Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street During the German Soviet War the museum was closed and the major part of collection relocated to Alma Ata In 1944 museum was reopened for the general public but in 1954 it was closed again due to the shortage of display space In 1965 the USSR Council of Ministers granted 2 million rubles for the construction of the new museum building However construction works started only in 1972 The renewed museum met the first visitors in 1987 nbsp Protoceratops exhibit nbsp Titanophoneus exhibit nbsp Raphus exhibit nbsp Tarbosaurus exhibitExternal links edit nbsp Media related to Moscow Paleontological Museum at Wikimedia Commons Museum in English and Russian Paleontological Museum in English Review on the present state of the museum This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Moscow Paleontological Museum news newspapers books scholar JSTOR February 2010 Learn how and when to remove this message nbsp This paleontology article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp nbsp This article about a museum in Russia is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Moscow Paleontological Museum amp oldid 1180502534, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
