Rinay
Sign in to saveRinay is a malacological museum of natural history in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is also the first private museum in the country.
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- museum
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Location
- Azerbaijan
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- inception
- 1989-00-00
- title
- Rinay
- date of official opening
- 1989-00-00
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Rinay is a malacological museum of natural history in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is also the first private museum in the country.
== Structure == The museum exhibits approximately 5,000 clam shells (the shells of bivalve molluscs) from 86 genera worldwide. The museum also displays hundreds of fossil clamshells. Some of these were obtained by exchange from the Austrian, Canadian, Argentine, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish and Indonesian paleontological university museums.
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