Memorable dates of Russia: The exhibition "Plant collector" to the 130th anniversary of N. I. Vavilov at the State Darwin Museum in Moscow

The exhibition "Plant Collector", timed to the 130th anniversary of the outstanding scientist, traveler and science organizer Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, is opened on October 10, 2017 in the State Darwin Museum in Moscow. The exhibition will tell you how a child's passion for herbarium turned into a serious scientific work on the study of the geography of cultivated plants, and how the innovative idea of ​​creating a seed bank for the preservation of the gene pool of the planet was born. The exhibition presents personal items of the scientist, fruits and seeds of plants, brought from numerous expeditions and described in the scientific works of N. I. Vavilov. To check knowledge will be possible by a reference computer program and games specifically designed for this exhibition.