Category:Paleontological Museum of NMNH NASU

English: The history of the Paleontological Museum is closely associated with the name of Academician Ivan Pidoplichko who established the first small paleontological exposition at the Zoological Museum in December 1935. The collection of fossil materials for this exposition began to be gathered as far back as in 1919, when the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was established. The exposition of the Paleontological Museum illustrates the evolution of life on the Earth — from its origin to the current state. The exposition shows successive evolutionary stages of the vegetable and animal organisms. The understanding of this process helps determine the geological age and correlation of strata, as well as facilitates the study of paleogeography, paleoenvironmental records, anthropology, etc. The exposition contains more than 2,000 original specimens — mostly from the territory of Ukraine, while the whole collection of the Museum comprises about 1 million specimens. The Museum demonstrates 106 showcases, five dioramas and two installations built of the mammoth bones.