NNPM is one of the largest natural science museums in the world and the largest natural science museum in Ukraine. The museum is located in the center of Kyiv in an old building with original neoclassical architecture. It contains more than 30,000 exhibits that tell about the origin, structure and evolution of the Earth, its flora and fauna, their past and present, about the history of the material culture of the tribes and peoples that inhabited the territory of Ukraine.