Academician Vladimir Vernadsky's office: A witness to a very full life

• The Memorial Office-Museum of Academician V.I. Vernadsky was described in detail.
• The Office-Museum contains important memorabilia illustrating Vernadsky's life.
• The museum's library contains nearly 7000 books, journals, and geographical atlases.
• The museum focuses on Vernadsky's biography and popularization of his thoughts.

The Memorial Office-Museum of Academician Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863–1945) contains important memorabilia illustrating the life of this outstanding scientist, thinker, politician and statesman. He is remembered for creating a new approach to the natural sciences based on the ideas of geological continuity and universality of life in space, and for defining the concepts of the biosphere and the noosphere.