The State Darwin Museum
The State Darwin Museum is a natural history museum in Moscow. The museum was founded in 1907 by Alexander Kohts and was the world's first museum of evolution explaining the work of Charles Darwin as a causal explanation of nature.Photo: Cybersky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: Tuesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
- Email: info@darwinmuseum.ru
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum
- Also known as: “Darwin Museum” and “State Darwin Museum”
- Postal code: 117292
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Basov square and Moscow State Circus.
Basov square
Square
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Basov square is situated 120 metres north of The State Darwin Museum.
Moscow State Circus
Theater building
The title Moscow State Circus is used for a variety of circuses. Most commonly, it refers to one of the two circus buildings in Moscow, the "Circus Nikulin" and the "Bolshoi Circus", or to traveling shows which may or may not be directly related to Russia. Moscow State Circus is situated 1½ km west of The State Darwin Museum.
Akademicheskaya
Metro station
Photo: Alex Rave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akademicheskaya is a station on the Moscow Metro's Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. The station is named for the several Akademichesky Proyezd streets formerly located nearby, which were themselves named after the Russian Academy of Sciences but have all been renamed since. Akademicheskaya is situated 1 km southeast of The State Darwin Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akademichesky District and Gagarinsky District.
Akademichesky District
Suburb
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akademichesky District is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 5.57 square kilometers.
Gagarinsky District
Suburb
Photo: Niklitov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gagarinsky District, Moscow is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 5.50 square kilometers. Population - 72,072. Established in 1995.
Lomonosovsky District
Suburb
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lomonosovsky District, Moscow is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 3.34 square kilometers.
The State Darwin Museum
- Categories: science museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.69071° or 55° 41′ 27″ northLongitude
37.5615° or 37° 33′ 41″ eastOpen location code
9G7VMHR6+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 288506766OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q1107243
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“The State Darwin Museum” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դարվինի պետական թանգարան”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржаўны Дарвінаўскі музей”
- Dutch: “Gosoedarstvenniy Darvinovskiy moezey”
- Esperanto: “Darwin-muzeo”
- French: “musée Darwin”
- French: “Musée Darwin”
- German: “Staatliches Darwin-Museum”
- Indonesian: “Museum Negara Darwin”
- Japanese: “国立ダーウィン博物館”
- Russian: “Государственный Дарвиновский музей”
- Russian: “Дарвиновский музей”
- Spanish: “Museo Darwin de Moscu”
- Spanish: “Museo Darwin de Moscú”
- Spanish: “Museo Darwin”
- “SDMM”
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