Vernadsky State Geological Museum

The Vernadsky State
Geological Museum
	Location in Central Moscow
Established	1988
Type	earth science and educational centre of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Collections	minerals, rocks, fossils
Owner	Russian Academy of Sciences
Nearest parking	no

The Vernadsky State Geological Museum is the geological museum in Moscow. Mineralogical collection was founded in 1755 and is now an earth sciences and educational centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

History

Mikhail Lomonosov had studied mining principles in Germany, concluding that "it is necessary to use not only books, but objects of Nature", and it was he who came up with the principals of the charter of Moscow Imperial University, founded in January 1755, and for the founding of its mineralogical collection.