State Geology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
the State Geology Museum in Moscow presents not only native forms of minerals but also
aspects related to the exploration of the far regions of Russia as well as animals of these regions. But, I visited the Museum because interested to its collection of meteorits Both metallic and carbonaceous. The following images give you an idea of the collections of the Museum.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Technology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
of interest in Moscow is also the Technology Museum http://www.moscow.info/museums/polytechnical-museum-at-the-ilinsky-gates.aspx
similar, in its conception to the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It presents the Russian and Soviet achievements in the different field of the technology. It has a section devoted to the space technology, but no so so spectacular as the sections of the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in the same Moscow. Of interest the full scale model of the first soviet atomic bomb, similar to the second american atomic bomb. A board inform the visitor that the model does not include the atomic explosive.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Palaeonthology Museum - Moscow

Dear Friends
if you will be in Moscow, don't miss the occasion to visit the Palaeonthology Museum ( http://www.russianmuseums.info/M416 ) located near the underground station Tioply Stan. The Museum located in a modern designed red building strongly contrasted with the r white colour of the sorrounding nature. It presents, not in chronological order, Permian dinosaurs, Giurassic dinosaurs and Olocen speleo bears, mamonths and carnivors. In particular, I have to say that in many Palaeonthology museums I visited (London, Paris, Berlin, Milano), there are preserved sculls and parts of the bones of the Indricotherium a mammal preceding the mamonths and bigger than them. But, I was very surprised to see at the Museum of Moscow two impressive skelets of Indricotherium Transuralicus practically complete.
Any comment from your side is welcomed.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Moscow - Archaeology Museum - Urban Archaeology

Dear Friends
in Moscow it is also interesting to visit the Archaeology Museum, on the Marx Prospect, not far from the Red Place ( http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1650 ). It presents the discoveries made during the excavations in the same place of the Museum, i.e. mainly the rests of a bridge crossing an arm of the Moskova and artifacts of the Middle Age and recent periods (1600-1800). Of interest the reconstruction of the place at the time of the bridge.
Salutations
Giancarlo

Moscow - Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

Dear Friends
last week I was in Moscow for attending the 3rd Regional Conference: Pre-Cyrillic Slavic Writing and Pre-Christian Russian Culture at the State University of Management ( http://www.guu.ru/info.php?id=554 ) in which I presented an intervention devoted to the decyphering of the inscriptions on the Tablets of Tartaria (Rumania). But, before the Conference, I had the time to visit some museums in the town. Probably the most impressive I visited is the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. It presents, following a chronological order, full scale models of Cosmos satellites, Moon landers, Venus and Mars probes as well as Vostock, Voskhod, Salut, Soyuz space vehicles. The museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Museum_of_Astronautics
http://www.space-museum.ru/
illustrates well the deep interest and involvement of the former Soviet Union and today's Russia in the space exploration.
Salutations
Giancarlo