Archive sections: ‘Museums’
The Zoological Museum is currently part of the Biological-Soil Institute of the Academy of Sciences. The collection was begun in the 1920′s – and was part of the Central Museum for the Study of Local Lore. Specimens were donated by scientists from various parts of the Soviet Union and were housed in a small single-storey building. In 1943 the […]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 at 08:33 0 comments. »
Over the New Year we got a piece of surprising news … Some enterprising thieves decided to help themselves to a painting hanging in the Museum of Fine Arts. It seems that a corporate event was being held in the Museum and, once it was over, the curators noticed that a painting, (Crimean Seascape painted […]
Monday, January 20th, 2014 at 07:00 1 comments. »
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