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Mining Museum in St. Petersburg

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The Mining Museum in St. Petersburg is three years older than America, while Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, can be considered the Museum's rightful mother. Now by its size, it is the world's third-largest natural-scientific exposition gathered in a building designed by Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin.
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Furore of the Mining Museum in Paris: 120 Years Back

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The Exposition Universelle of 1900 or, as it is better known in English, 1900 Paris Exposition came to its end on 12 November 1900. Exhibits from Russia - including the Mining Museum's collection of minerals, to which was awarded a grand prize - took over 1,500 prizes.
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The World’s Largest Piece of Ural Malachite Turned 245 Years Old

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A malachite block weighing a ton and a half was extracted from below the surface 245 years ago in the vicinity of the area where nowadays the town of Polevskoye, Ural, stands.
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Mining Museum: Videos

Mining museum in slideshow format:

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A Rock Falling from up Above

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Each year over 16 tons of large-sized meteorites fall down onto the surface of Earth. But until the end of the 18th century, scientists did not believe that meteorites were simply falling down from the sky. All because of the beliefs of the Catholic Church, stating this was impossible.
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Collections of the mining museum. Machinery

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The first technical devices began to be used in mining back in the 14th century. By the middle of the 18th century, the industrial revolution led to the replacement of tools such as picks, shovels, wedges and hammers, with albeit primitive, but machines.
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The Mining Museum Shared the Secret of the Famous Kuinji’s Painting

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The first exhibition of the painting "Moonlit Night on the Dnieper" took place 140 years ago. As is known, when creating the picture, the artist used special paints based on pigments from the collection of the oldest technical university in Russia.
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Hall of Petrology

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The Hall contains systematic collections of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks from both Russia and other parts of the world. The exposition is based on the principle of genetic and chemical classification of rocks.
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Geology of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Hall

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The exposition of the Hall is dedicated to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and is conventionally divided into two parts.
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Natural Resources Hall

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The Hall is home to samples of the most significant metallic, non-metallic and hydrocarbon fields both in Russia and abroad, and models of the Berezovsky gold deposit and the Ridder-Sokolny polymetallic deposit.
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