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Государственный Дарвиновский музей, Москва

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Exhibition «He Breathed Life into Fossils»

Anna A. Alexandrova

State Darwin Museum, Moscow

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The exhibition “He Breathed Life into Fossils” opened in the State Darwin museum on April, 2013. It is dedicated to the 120 ^th anniversary of Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (1893-1966) — a well-known Russian histologist, paleontologist, and academician in the USSR. Yuri Orlov began his way into science as a histologist and the atmosphere of his histological lab in the early 20 ^th century is recreated in the first showcase. Most of the exhibition is devoted to Orlov the paleontologist as far as his children’s interest in paleontology had turned into serious research work. Visitors can see the original materials that formed the basis of monographs and articles of Orlov as a paleontologist. Showcases as well as map-cases help us to imagine his activity as a scientific organizer and introduce us to his writings, including popular works. A separate section is devoted to his “fieldwork” since Y.A. Orlov organized and participated in many major paleontological expeditions. The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Paleontological Museum named after Yuri Orlov.