"Prehistoric insects in amber" Automatic translate

From December 12, 2018, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (104 Lenin St., exhibition hall) invites you to the famous exhibition of natural amber inclusions “Prehistoric insects in amber”, first brought to Kaluga.

Here you can see rare and amazingly beautiful amber nuggets with the inclusion of arthropods who lived on Earth about 500,000 centuries ago!

Coniferous trees “Pinas Sucinifera” grew on the coast of the modern Baltic Sea. In the hot rays of the sun, pines exuded tar, it, descending the trunk, carried away small insects, leaves, pollen of plants, and then hardened, turning into a substance that could retain any plant, insect, air for tens of millions of years in its captivity. Resin fell into the sea, covered with silt, drifted with sand, keeping the treasures of the ancient world inside. So amber appeared. He then preserved inclusions - the fossil remains of organisms that fell into the ancient resin.

Insects in amber are an invaluable gift of nature, a kind of time machine that allows you to look deep into the times and has conveyed to our days in an unchanged form the representatives of the insect world of the prehistoric era. The exhibition presents insects that have been preserved in their original form in natural amber - succinite, whose age is 40-50 million years, which corresponds to the Paleogene - the geological period following the Cretaceous. During this period, after the extinction of a large number of reptiles, a rapid flowering of prehistoric mammals began. At this time, giant running birds of prey, diatrims, bizarre mastodons, glyptodons, megateriums and amazing indrikoterii lived on Earth. Since then, the Earth has experienced many ice ages and has changed the position of the continents.

Each exhibit is contained in a glass pyramid equipped with spotlights and jewelry lens systems that allow you to see the inhabitants of the ancient world with detail to the villi.

By visiting the exhibition “Prehistoric Insects in Amber”, you can look into the faceted eyes of the ancient inhabitants of our planet who lived on it tens of millions of years ago.

The exhibition runs until February 24th.