Published on: 2026-10-03
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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The K.A. Timiryazev State Biological Museum invites you to celebrate World Architecture Day, which is traditionally observed on the first Monday of October. Since 1934, the museum has been located in the former estate of Petr Shchukin on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street. The buildings were erected at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries in the Russian style. Pavilion No. 31 “Geology” of the “Biocluster,” where the exhibition “12 Signs of the Living” is presented, was built in 1954 based on a design by architect Leonid Pavlov. These museum buildings are classified as federal cultural heritage sites.
Themed events will be held on October 4, ahead of the holiday.
At the State Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street (building 15), overview tours of the “At Shchukin’s in Gruziny” estate territory will begin at 12:30 and 14:30. Visitors will learn about the history of the mansion and the fate of its owner — collector Petr Shchukin, as well as see the architectural ensemble and partially preserved interiors. Participation will require entrance ticket to the museum and ticket for tour.
At pavilion No. 31 “Geology” of the “Biocluster,” a lecture-presentation titled “Natural Architects” will begin at 14:00. Listeners will learn what solutions architects have borrowed from nature. They will be told about structures created by living organisms—from comfortable dwellings to wedding gifts. The motives of some of them can be found in the greatest works of human civilization. Participation will require admission ticket to the museum.
The program of events in city museums contributes to achieving the goals and objectives of the national project in Moscow “Family”. More detailed information about Russia’s national projects and the capital’s contribution can be found at special page.
The K.A. Timiryazev Biological Museum was founded in 1922 by Boris Zavadovsky, an academician and a leading specialist in physiology, endocrinology, and biology. The main exhibition is located in the former estate of Petr Shchukin on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street (house 15). Since the beginning of the 20th century, the museum has been an advanced interactive problem-thematic platform presenting all branches of biology. Its collection includes over 110,000 exhibits. Among them are unique anthropological reconstructions, zoological collections of renowned domestic naturalists, wet specimens of embryological developmental anomalies, and much more.
Biocluster is the first and only complex in the country that unites under one roof all the main directions of modern biology.
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