Malaya Gruzinskaya house 15 building 1. State Biological Museum named after. K.A. Timiryazev. Opening hours of the Biological Museum

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Membership in organizations:
Association of Natural History Museums of the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums - R32
Regional public organization "Association of Museum Educators" - R135
Russian National Committee of the International Council of Museums - ICOM Russia - R158
Non-profit partnership "Automation of museum activities and information technologies" (ADIT) - R297

Partner organizations:
State Museum of Animal Husbandry named after. E.F. Liskuna - M295
Museum of Hunting and Fishing - M383

Museum-Reserve "Dmitrov Kremlin" - M448
Museum and exhibition complex of Novotroitsk - M1088
Samara Literary and Memorial Museum named after. M. Gorky - M1944
Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after. S.G. Stroganova - R13
Moscow State University named after. M.V. Lomonosov - R58

Department of Museum Studies RIPRIKT - R338
Moscow State University of Culture and Art (MGUKI) - R345

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Traveling and exchange exhibitions:
Interactive exhibition "Hands". It is a canvas installation telling about the structure, capabilities and evolution of the hand. You will learn how many bones and muscles there are in it, how the joints are structured, what features distinguish a human hand from the limbs of animals, remember proverbs and sayings about hands, and much more.
Exhibition "Treasures of the Deep Sea". More than 500 shells of marine mollusks from the collection stored in the museum’s funds are presented. Here are exhibited abalones, or abalones, sparkling with the blue-green shine of their mother-of-pearl, cypriae with a shiny porcelain surface, decorated with a bright pattern, murex, the shells of which bear bizarre outgrowths. Also here you can see the shells of deadly cones, scallops painted in all shades of the rainbow, the largest shell in the world - the tridacna and many, many others. You can also find out why these mollusks are interesting and how they are connected to human life
Exhibition-game "Island of Discovery". On it, visitors can not only look at museum exhibits such as bamboo, coconut, turtle shell, crocodile, mammoth tooth, mollusk shells and others, but also touch them, pick them up, twist them, and play with them. The exhibition is designed for group visits and individual visitors. There are no excursions, but only classes during which the research activities of visitors, combining work with the subject and a variety of creative tasks, help everyone - both adults and children - to experience a sense of personal discovery

State Biological Museum named after. K. A. Timiryazeva is an ancient natural science museum in Moscow with a rich exhibition, one of the most popular places for children's excursions. Located in an architectural monument building on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, 15, where the Museum of Russian Antiquities of Peter Shchukin was previously located.

The approach with which the Timiryazev Biological Museum was created was fundamentally different from the idea of other museums that opened at that time: the mission of the institution is to fully embrace knowledge about the science of life, not just to accumulate and store valuable materials, but also to reveal their significance taking into account biological principles. There are high demands on the level of scientific knowledge presented in the excursions.

Exposition of the Biological Museum of Moscow

The main exhibitions of the museum are devoted to the flora and fauna, the theory of evolution, the origin and evolution of man, his influence on the biosphere, and genetics. In total, the museum's collections now contain over 75 thousand items of exhibits.

A free virtual tour of the halls is available on the official website of the Biological Museum. Timiryazev.

The museum-lecture hall was made “alive” by research in the working laboratory, where employees visually conduct experiments, and everyone can participate and study the vital functions of organisms live. First of all, the task of the museum was biological practice. The founder of the establishment, B. M. Zavadovsky, was guided by these principles. This is why visiting a museum is so exciting and significantly different from “traditional” type museums.

The museum regularly hosts thematic excursions and master classes for children and their parents, and organizes new temporary exhibitions.

Opening hours of the Biological Museum

Biological Museum named after. Timiryazeva works every day, except Monday, according to the following schedule:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: from 10.00 to 18.00
Thursday: from 12.00 to 21.00
Sunday: from 11.00 to 18.00.

The ticket office closes one hour before the museum closes.

Please note that the museum is closed on the last Tuesday of every month for public health day.

On holidays, the museum's opening hours are reduced by one hour.

Ticket prices

Cost of entrance tickets to the Biological Museum. Timiryazev depends on the category:

Adult full ticket - 280 rubles
children's (from 7 to 17 years old) and discount (for children from 7 to 17 years old, pensioners, disabled people 3 years old, large families) tickets - 140 rubles
children under 7 years old, students, museum workers, disabled people 1st and 2nd grade. - for free.

Every third Sunday of the month - free entry to the museum for all visitors.

Tickets can be purchased directly at the box office or online. Please note that the e-ticket must be printed.

The Biological Museum also offers annual passes for unlimited visits to the museum throughout the year:

annual subscription for the owner + 1 guest: 1600 rubles
annual subscription for the owner + 2 guests: 2700 rubles.

How to get to the Timiryazev Biological Museum

The museum building is conveniently located near the Moscow Zoo, within walking distance of the Belorussky Station and the Garden Ring.

From the city center and remote areas it is convenient to get by metro to the Barrikadnaya (purple line) or Krasnopresnenskaya (ring metro station) station. On foot from the metro you will reach the museum in 10-12 minutes: you will need to walk along Krasnaya Presnya Street and then turn right onto Malaya Gruzinskaya Street.

Bus No. 116 reaches the building itself. The rest of the ground transport - buses, trolleybus No. 79 - stops at the intersection of Krasnaya Presnya and Malaya Gruzinskaya streets. The distance from the stop is about 300 meters.

By car it is convenient to approach along the Zvenigorodskoye Highway from the suburbs, and from the center along the Garden Ring with a turn onto Krasnaya Presnya Street.

To order a car, you can use taxi service applications: for example, Gett or Yandex. Taxi.

Moscow Biological Museum named after Timiryazev on Google Maps panoramas

Among the buildings on Malaya Gruzinskaya, a large house in the pseudo-Russian style stands out - with tiles and high “teremkovy” roofs. In the beginning. XX century it was the Museum of Russian Antiquities - one of the largest collections in Russia.

The creator of the complex was Pyotr Ivanovich Shchukin, a representative of a famous merchant family that collected art and antiquities. His three brothers owned large collections: Sergei - a collection of paintings by French impressionists, Dmitry - works of old European painters, Ivan - paintings by Spanish masters. Modest in everyday life, P.I. Shchukin spent huge amounts of money on his collection. Returning to Moscow from Lyon in 1878, he began with oriental art (interior items from Japan, China and India), then took up European art, but soon became interested in ancient Russian art. Having sold the house on the corner of Prechistenka and Lopukhinsky lane, in 1891 Shchukin bought a plot of land on Malaya Gruzinskaya, which was beginning to be built up on the city outskirts, for his growing collection. They decided to build it in a fashionable pseudo-Russian style.

Construction took place in several stages and with the participation of various architects. The first building was erected in 1892–1893. in the depths of the site. In the spirit of Yaroslavl architecture, he built an “Old Russian tower” - with a stepped hipped porch, “chessboard” roofs, weather vanes in the form of flags and double-headed eagles. On the eastern facade there was a miniature balcony - a copy of the balcony of the Romanov boyars' chambers on Varvarka. The upper floor was decorated with brick with multi-colored tiles and a round medallion with a bas-relief in the form of a winged unicorn, and the lower floor was decorated with “diamond” (tetrahedral) rustication. The interiors are similar: paintings on the vaults with plant motifs, tiled stoves and “melons”.

The collection grew rapidly. In 1896–1898 built a second building along the red line of the street - also “pseudo-Russian”, but more spacious. The two buildings were connected by an underground tunnel, along the walls of which exhibits were also located. The ensemble was completed by a one-story building for the museum warehouse and archive (1905, architect F.N. Kolbe). Although the three buildings were created by different architects, they are in perfect harmony with each other.

In 1905, Shchukin donated the collection and buildings to the Historical Museum, but remained the custodian of the collection and continued to expand it. It had departments of church antiquities, weapons, fabrics, carpets, tapestries, tapestries, jewelry, and dishes. Shchukin's pride was his extensive art gallery. After his death in 1912, the Museum was abolished, and the exhibits were transported to the Historical Museum. Fortunately, after the revolution, the building retained its purpose: at one time it housed the funds of the Museum of Old Moscow, then there was the Museum of the Central Industrial Region, since 1928 - a student dormitory, and since 1934, at the request of M. Gorky, the complex was transferred to the Biological Museum them. Timiryazev, who is still here today. A separate greenhouse was built along the “new” building.

In 2018, the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage issued an assignment to develop a project for the restoration of the State Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev.