Mineralogical Museum Akademia Nauk
(1725- )
Akademia Nauk, the Russian Academy of Science, was founded in St. Petersburg in 1725 by Peter the Great. The Academy combined the functions of scientific research and training, having its own university and a high school. Leading foreign scientists were recruited, and a splendid Cabinet of Curiosities was assembled. An anatomical theater, a department of geography, an astronomical observatory, a physical cabinet, and a mineralogical cabinet (later to become the Mineralogical Museum) were set up. The basis of the mineralogical cabinet was a collection of 1,195 mineral specimens which Peter the Great had purchased from M. D. Gottwald of Danzig in 1716. On the Academy's initiative and with its participation, complex expeditions were carried out, making an enormous contribution to the discovery of Russia's natural resources.
The mineralogical museum was was renamed the "Geological Museum" in 1898, but the mineralogical emphasis was revitalized around 1900 by A. P. Karpinsky, and in 1930 the museum was renamed the "Institute for Mineralogy and Geochemistry." In 1932 it was renamed again as the "Geochemical, Mineralogical and Crystallographic Institute" and dedicated to M.V. Lomonosov. The collection, known since 1956 as the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, in honor of Director Alexander Fersman (1883-1945), was moved from St. Petersburg (Leningrad) to Moscow 1934. It currently houses over 135,000 mineral specimens.
References:
OSIPOV, Yu.S. (1999) The Academy of Sciences in the History of the Russian State. Moscow, «NAUKA».
BANCROFT, P. B. (1988) Mineral museums of Eastern Europe. Mineralogical Record, 19, 36-38.
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"Academy of Science, USSR, Geological Museum, A. P. Karpinskiy, Dept. of Geochemistry and Mineralogy," which dates this label to 1900-1912. |
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Dated 1993
"Mineralogical Museum, A. N. (Akademia Nauk), USSR." |
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58 x 84 mm
"Mineralogical Museum, A. N. (Akademia Nauk), USSR." |
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"Mineralogical Museum, A. N. (Akademia Nauk), USSR." |
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"Mineralogical Museum, A. N. (Akademia Nauk), USSR." |
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