Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science

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The Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) is a Russian museum devoted to zoology. It is located in Saint Petersburg.

Peter the Great's Kunstkamera collections included zoological specimens. In 1724 the museum became a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A printed catalogue of the contents was published in 1742.It listed the zoology, botany , geology and anthropology specimens and contained an album of etchings of the building and plan of some of its parts. In 1766 Academician (= Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Peter Simon Pallas was appointed Curator of Zoology.