In Russia, museums in which you can see the bones of giant ancient dinosaurs are available in many large cities. If you want to immerse yourself in the era of dinosaurs with your head, then be sure to visit one of these institutions, for example, in the capital of our homeland. Dinosaurs in museums in Moscow, of course, are not real, but only in the form of skeletons, but this does not make them less interesting and surprising for true connoisseurs of natural science.
Paleontological Museum in Moscow
A trip to it will be especially interesting for children, because by their nature they are curious and inquisitive. Children are interested in everything unusual and unnatural. Dinosaurs in museums in Moscow will cause a lot of impressions in a child.
One of the museums is named after Yu.A. Orlova. It is rightfully one of the largest institutions in the world devoted to natural-historical activity. Paleontological Museum. Yu.A. Orlova is an integral part of the RAS Institute of the same name, dedicated to the evolution of the organic world that originated 65 million years ago on our planet. You can see the skeletons of dinosaurs (the museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 to 18 hours) at the address: Profsoyuznaya street, 123. The exhibition organizers conduct excursions, which you can pre-book by prior call.
How to get to him
The route that you can get there is uncomplicated. For example, you can drive to it through the streets of Akademik Kapitsa, Vvedensky, Ostrovityanov or through Novoyasenevsky Prospect. It is this route that will most definitely lead you to the dinosaur museum. Teply Stan is a metro station where you should get off if you decide to get to this museum by train.
What can you see there
The exhibition area of the Paleontological Museum is almost 5 thousand square meters. The exposition, decoration and interior allow visitors to plunge headlong into the era and atmosphere that reigned all the main time the existence of our planet. Here, using the example of several thousand different exhibits, one can trace all the stages of the formation of the organic world on Earth.
Moscow Dinosaur Museum (photo presented in the article) consists of several large halls. In the first, you can familiarize yourself with paleontology as a science and learn in detail what paleontologists do. In the second, you will plunge into the era of the Early Paleozoic, with your own eyes you will see rock prints of ancient plants, shells of mollusks that lived about 200 million years ago, etc.
Of course, there are still no dinosaurs in the second room, since at that time mainly invertebrate organisms living in the aquatic environment lived. Nevertheless, in the framework of this article we are interested in ancient dinosaurs. Their skeletons can be seen in the last rooms of the Moscow Paleontological Museum. They are the ones that cause the greatest excitement among the public. It is understandable. So, what are the most vibrant and interesting dinosaurs in museums in Moscow?
Tyrannosaur
In this natural-historical institution there is, perhaps, one of the most chilling exhibits - the skeleton of a titan dinosaur! This is the most important lizard of all times and eras of our planet. According to experts, he lived in the west of modern North America (then - the island of Laromidia) about 65 million years ago. Tyrannosaurs were one of the last lizardotazovyh animals, surviving their age already on the "sick" planet. As you know, trouble overtook them from space. Tyrannosaurs crowned the era of dinosaurs.
Diplodocus
Another bright representative of the ancient dinosaurs, whose solid skeleton adorns one of the halls of the Paleontological Museum of the capital of our country, is a diplodocus. These giants existed during the so-called Jurassic period and became extinct about 150 million years ago. The diplodocus possessed truly gigantic dimensions of a clumsy but long body.
It was the sizes that glorified them: diplodocus became widely known as one of the longest dinosaurs in the entire existence of the dinosaurs on Earth. According to some paleontologists, diplodocus reached a length of 55 meters, and weighed up to 112 tons. Thanks to the coordinated work of scientists and researchers, this species of lizards is one of the most studied among all the dinosaurs that ever inhabited our planet.
