The state geological Museum. V. I. Vernadsky – the oldest Moscow Museum, research center, educational center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of Sciences about the Earth. The Museum was founded in 1755. The idea of creating a Museum owned by M. V. Lomonosov, and the main collection of the Museum was based on the Demidov collection, donated to the Museum.

In its present form, the Museum has existed since 1988. It was then, at the suggestion of Professor Mineeva, supported by the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was published the government decision "On the 125th anniversary since the birth of Vernadsky". It was the point of creating a Museum in the building on moss in the centre of the capital. When creating the State geological Museum. Vernadsky, were United, the Museum collections of the two museums: the Geological-paleontological Museum named after Pavlov and Museum. Vernadsky. In 1994 the Museum was transferred to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Museum building was repaired, and the premises were organized original exposures.

The mineralogical collection of the Museum is among the three largest collections in the Russia. Some of the exhibits of this Museum more than two hundred years were visual AIDS when teaching students of Moscow University and Moscow Institute of geological exploration. In the Museum collection there are specimens that are reference material mineral species. It has samples of minerals from open fields. Ilmenite is open from Ilmen Deposit in the reserve, Josef – from San-Jose, etc.

Today the Museum presents almost 60 thousand exhibits, samples of 1100 types of minerals. The Museum has a collection of 5,000 deposits. Over two hundred year history of the Museum, its collections are continuously replenished by philanthropists, statesmen, scholars and students.

The Museum presents unique samples of minerals. Thus, the crystal of phlogopite from Slyudyanka, height 1 meter, produced in 1929, is the largest in Russia. Huge (more than 60 cm in length) prismatic Apatite crystal came to the Museum from the same field. Plate of native copper mined in Kazakhstan, weighs about five hundred pounds. A block of malachite from the Urals weighs 200 kg Boulder was donated by one of the Demidovs and placed on a special pedestal. A huge Cairn salt stone brought from Donbass. It has a diameter of 80 centimeters and has a height of 1, 2 meters. The exhibition contains rare, unique-sized crystals of orpiment, pleonaste, analcime, cassiterite, and many, many unique samples.