Moscow Paleontological Museum
The Yuri Orlov Paleontological Museum ( Russian Палеонтологический музей им. Ю. А. Орлова ) is a museum of paleontology in Moscow. It was founded in 1937 as part of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is named after its former director Yuri Orlov .
The museum's collection goes back in part to the Kunstkammer of Peter the Great in 1716. During the Second World War the stock was evacuated to Almaty . The museum reopened in 1944 and closed again in 1954 due to lack of space.
Funding for a new building was officially approved in 1965, but construction did not begin until 1972. In 1987, the new building was opened by the architects Juri Platonow , W. Kogan, L. Jakowjenko and W. Nagich. In the building located at Profsojusnaja-Straße 123, over 5,000 exhibits are exhibited on 4,200 square meters in six large halls. Exhibits include dinosaurs from Mongolia , therapsids ("early mammalian relatives") from the Perm region and Precambrian fossils from Siberia .
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Arstanosaurus sp.
Titanophoneus potens
Scutosaurus karpinskii
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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 ′ 26 ″ N , 37 ° 30 ′ 50 ″ E