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The Stukenberg Museum of Geology of Kazan State University


Phone: (843) 292-08-19

Address: 420111, Tatarstan Republic,

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Internet:
    www.russianmuseums.info/M2736 - official web page
    The Stukenberg Museum of Geology of Kazan State University - W1332, official web site kpfu.ru/museums/geologicheskij-muzej-im-aashtukenberga

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Description:
    The Stukenberg Museum of Geology of Kazan State University is one of the oldest and richest natural science museums in Russia. Those ones were established at higher educational institutions in the end of the XVIII century and had both home and foreign collections unlike regional museums formed later on. The museum was founded in 1804 in accordance with the I Order of the Kazan Emperor University.

    The contemporary store of the museum implies six main sections: ores, minerals and petrography; paleontology; dynamic geology and facies; monographic collections; geology of our region, mineral products of Tatarstan; scientific archive of museum history. There are more than 150000 samples from 60 countries in the museum, including collections of meteorites, rocks, minerals, ores, fossils of plants and animals.

    Nowadays the KSU Museum of Geology is one of the richest higher educational institution museums in the country. It is included in international and regional mineralogy reference books being a member of the Commission by Mineralogy Museums of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Academic Council of the Tatarstan National Museum. It closely collaborates with regional and foreign natural science museums and geology institutions, providing collections' exchange and publications and realizing joint geological projects



Museum's services:
   public library, museum's caffe

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    hotels and restaurants


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Administrative phone:
    (843) 292-08-19



Foundation and opening day:
    founded: 17.11.1804

Organisation status:
   Ministry

Organization form:
   non-for-profit

Organisation type:
    culture for society, scientific, educational

Classification:
    Natural history


Squares:
    permament show rooms 655,9м2
    temporary exhibitions 147м2

Employee number:
    8 (curators: 4)

Average visitors per year:
    около 3000


Collections volume:
    около 150 000, rare collection's items: около 147 000



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