Moscow Zoo

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Moscow Zoo

Phone: (499) 252-2951 (спр.), 255-5375 (экс.бюро)

Address: 123242, Moscow, 1, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Ulitsa

Location: Metro Stations: Barrikadnaya, Kracnopresnenskaya

Working hours:*

Internet:
www.russianmuseums.info/M499 - official web page
Moscow Zoo - W371, official web site www.moscowzoo.ru

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billboard, events and excursions

Description:

This, the first Russian Zoo, was opened in 1864, and now has 5150 animals and 960 different breeds. Today the zoo carries out conservation, educational and scientific research and participates in a number of International Breeding Programs. More than 80 species of endangered animals, for example trumpeter swans and white - naped cranes, are breeding successfully in the very centre of this giant industrial city. The zoo also holds regular excursions and lectures.

Museum's services:
museum shop, lecture hall, museum's caffe, equipped for people with disabilities

Museum has :
theartre

Next to the museum there are:
hotels and restaurants

for museum professionals

Administrative phone:
(499) 255-6034

Foundation and opening day:
opened: 1864г.

Organisation status:
Municipal

Organization form:
non-for-profit

Organisation type:
culture for society, scientific, educational

Classification:
Natural history

Average visitors per year:
более 1300000

Specific departments:
archive, science library

Web sites and CD-disks:
above