museums

Nature Museum

The museum exhibits 287 species of vertebrates out of 350 living in the Yaroslavl region. Most of the exhibits are gathered around Bork, in an area with a radius of no more than 18 kilometers.

Some elements of the exposition:

A room with cold–blooded animals - fish, amphibians, reptiles, exotic specimens (ball fish, bull fish, sea needle, etc.).

The room with warm–blooded animals is a collection of birds, nocturnal and diurnal feathered predators, there are rare specimens (white-tailed eagle, whooping swan, grouse hawk of the Caucasian population).

The paleontological and mineralogical departments are represented exclusively by local material.

The phenological room – exhibits are arranged according to the seasons of the year, there are calendars and tables for 36 years of phenological observations conducted in the area.

The main attraction of the Yaroslavl region is a constellation of 12 ancient cities: Yaroslavl, Gavrilov-Yam, Danilov, Lyubim, Myshkin, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Poshekhonye, Rostov the Great, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Uglich and the flooded Mologa. Each of them has its own unique appearance and atmosphere.