The Dokuchaev central soil Museum

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The Dokuchaev central soil Museum

Phone: (812) 328-5602, 328-5402 (заказ экскурсий)

Address: 199034, Saint-Petersburg,

Working hours:*

Internet:
www.russianmuseums.info/M150 - official web page
The Dokuchaev central soil Museum - W615, official web site soil-museum.ru/

E-Mail:

billboard, events and excursions

Description:

The Museum was opened in 1904 at the Free Economic Society (a non-governmental body). Collections of soils formed byt V.V.Dokuchaev during his numerous expeditions were to be the basis for the establishment of the Museum. Those collections turned to be the first soils collections in the world. At present the Museum has a collection of 2500 soil monolites which represent the global variety of the types of virgin cultivated soils of all the natural zones. The main idea of Museum exhibition is to show not only soil diversity but also pedogenetic processes, interrelations of soils with other elements of ecosystems

Museum's services:
lecture hall

Next to the museum there are:
hotels and restaurants

for museum professionals

Administrative phone:
(812) 328-5402

Foundation and opening day:
founded: 1902г.
opened: 05.11.1904

Organisation status:
Federal

Organization form:
non-for-profit

Organisation type:
scientific

Squares:
permament show rooms 760м²
museum's store 200м²

Employee number:
24 (curators: 9)

Specific departments:
archive, science library

Collections volume:
3500, rare collection's items: 2500

Web sites and CD-disks:
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