Geological and the Fine Arts Museums

We started the morning browsing the fur shops that line the road opp the apartment. One of my fave coats was worth a cool $68,000 aud !!! Needless to say they stayed in the shops!
A great couple of hours was then spent at the Ural Geological Museum. It contained 3 floors of collections of rare geological exhibitions from the unique Ural regions. It also included fossilised hairy rhinoceros skulls and huge wooly mammoth tusks. The shop had the most beautiful specimens of malachite, jasper, and quartz to buy but they all weighed about 20kgs and K just wouldn’t carry them.... all because she has a new rain coat.
After lunch ( it was actually 3.30pm!) in The Secret Garden cafe it was off to the Museum of Fine Arts.
This contained more contemporary art and was a refreshing change. It also house a small collection of decorative steel swords from the region which were exquisite but after the Hermitage and the Kremlin Armoury everything seems so small!!
Tonight it’s off to the train for TST night 2....Read more