The State Darwin Museum in Moscow is the first-ever evolution museum in the world, which is established by one of the most intellectual people in Russia, Alexander Kohts. Koht founded the museum in 1907 and used its platform to explain the theories of Charles Darwin easily for the visitors. The State Darwin Museum locates on Vavilova St, which is a little bit far from the center of the city. That means if you want to visit this museum on your trip to Russia, you need to visit it in your free time because it probably won’t be included on your tour to Russia program.
Not every museum has this feature, but in the State Darwin Museum, one of the exhibition is dedicated to the founders of the museum. From 1907, Alexander Kohts and his companion tried and fought quite hard to collect the Darwin Museum’s exhibits and have their own house for the museum; to honor their efforts, part of the museum is dedicated to them, in which visitors can find their tools, recreation of their offices, and the furniture they used during that period. However, the current museum’s building was built during Vera Ignatyeva, the second director and one of the founders of the museum, which was after Alexander Koht’s death. This part of the museum contains about 1450 exhibits, which you can see for yourself during your tour to Moscow.
The Stages of knowledge of wildlife is where you can learn about the formation of biology and the history behind its development. This hall will tell the story of how ancient people had pleaded to animals or plants to when Greek philosophers who tried to systemize nature and separate it from religions and goes on to the modern era. That is an excellent place for anyone on the Moscow tour to learn about the history of wildlife.
The Microevolution hall tells you the story of how two or more species are from an individual ancestor; in other words, Microevolution studies evolution. In this hall, visitors of the tour to Russia will see various sections, including evolutionary changes, which explore the reason behind any change; natural selection, which tells how individual species had to adapt to specific condition to survive; species and speciation, and the last section, which talks about how new species communicate with each other to form a community. Here you can see a different yet similar individual from one species. However, since there are no completely identical persons, there are no completely identical individuals as well. During your visit, you can learn about the differences as you walk among the exhibits.
One of the most beautiful places inside the Darwin Museum is the Zoogeography Hall, which is dedicated to all animals around the world. Here you can find animals in various locations on different continents. If you want to see which animal belongs to where then this is the place that you should visit during your Russia tour. When you visit this section on your tour to Russia, it will feel like you have traveled around the world in a few minutes. You can also learn about animals and their environment.
Whether we like it or even want it or not, humankind has a powerful geological force that can influence the nature and its development worldwide. You can find its influence from the time when early humans hunted the mammoths because they needed a new source of food. We’re changing the environment and nature from 15 thousand years ago to this day. However, the speed of these changes has increased in recent centuries because we have developed new technologies. The interaction of man and nature hall studies the relationship between humans and nature, which you can learn about it on your travel to Russia.
One of the most significant disagreements between science and religion is the origin of man. While you learn an entirely different story about the origin of man in religion books, science will present the idea of humankind’s origin with facts and proofs. When you visit this museum on your trip to Moscow, you have the opportunity to learn about our prehistoric ancestors and see how they looked. Above that, you can see each stage of evolution from ancient man to the current day, and learn about the reasons behind our changes.
Alongside the evolution of body and mind, the behavior of animals has also evolved. The development of animal behavior is one of the sections of the Darwin Museum. It explains how an animal’s behavior has changed throughout history and what each one of those changes meant. For example, one of the main differences in animal behavior throughout time is communication; in this part of the museum, one of the things that you will learn about is the change in the ways of communication and explanation about why they had to evolve their behavior to survive.
One of the great things about nature is that you can find life almost everywhere. Even in places that seem to have no life, like the top of the mountain where everything is covered with ice shells, you can find living organisms. In this section of the museum, you’ll see animals and living organisms that you have never seen before, which can become one of the highlights of your visit.
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