Natural History Museum, Yekaterinburg (must see)

The Natural History Museum has approximately 60,000 items in its collection. The most famous pieces in the paleontology collection are the skeleton of a giant deer (found in 1886 in the Kamyshlovskoye district), the skeleton of a mammoth (found in 1897 in the Talitskii region) and the fossil of a Helicoprion shark's spiral tooth (found in 1900 in the Krasnoufimsk district). The museum's displays include dioramas made by Saratov artists. In May 2008, the museum added a new section that features unusual paintings by Franz Frantsevich Schillinger, a native of Austria.