The State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is one of the oldest in the natural history of museums in Europe, founded by a patron of natural sciences, Count Volodymyr Didushytsky. The modern collection of the museum is formed, first of all, on the basis of the meeting of the Natural History Museum named after Didushytsky. The museum houses collections and individual natural monuments of international importance, including meteorites, amber with fossil insects, exhibits of the Starun complex, paleontological collections of the Phanerozoic, soil collection, collection of stuffed animals, carcasses and horns of mammals, stuffed birds, birds and birds. butterflies, as well as plant collections since the middle of the XIX century. For the most part, they are of purely scientific importance and are therefore not presented in public exhibitions. The scientific natural funds of the museum consist of six main subdivisions: Paleontological (includes Paleobotanical and Paleozoological funds), Geological, Botanical (includes Herbarium of non-vascular plants and Herbarium of vascular plants), Zoological (includes Invertebrate Fund, and Malandological Fund). Soil Fund. The museum's collections have the status of "Scientific object that is a national heritage."