Fersman Mineralogical Museum (Moscow)

18–2 Leninsky Avenue, Moscow (tel.: +7 495 954-39-00, +7 495 954-37-53), Metro station: "Oktyabrskaya".

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http://www.fmm.ru

This is one of the most famous out of 500 mineralogical museums in the world. Its main collections include more than 135,000 items from all over the globe. Natural crystals and other kinds of minerals, articles made of stones by old and modern masters, gemstones, meteorites, and many other items.

It was founded as a mineral cabinet of the Kunstkamera in Saint-Petersburg in 1716. It is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1725.

In 1934, the Museum moved to Moscow together with the Russian Academy of Sciences, it was housed in one of the buildings of the estate called Neskuchniy Garden and built in the beginning of the 19th century by Alexey Orlov-Chesmensky as a manege and later reconstructed to be out-of-town reception hall for the imperial court.

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