Scientific fund department

Collections Museum at 01.01.2009, there were 401 755 units, of which the core - 244 946 units. The structure of the department, there sector accounting, storage is carried out by type of material. Collections of the Museum are located in two buildings.

In the museum funds over the past ten years received over 50 thousand of the main and auxiliary funds, which have become the most valuable collections on Buddhism, Old Believers in H1H., The old home of Irkutsk late HUSH - beginning in H1H., Russian and foreign orders H1H - first half of the twentieth century. Significantly increased ethnographic collection on indigenous peoples Pribaikalye - Buryatia and tofam.

Collections Irkutsk museum has presented at trade fairs in Russia and abroad. In 1868, the museum exhibited their collections at the agricultural exhibition in Irkutsk, in 1877 at the archaeological exhibition in Kazan, in 1879 on an anthropological exhibition in Moscow. In 1879 during the great fire of Irkutsk totally burned down the building a museum with more than 22 thousand exhibits. In the post-period in 1896, the museum VSORGO demonstrated their newly assembled collection of Nizhny Novgorod on the All-Russia Exhibition and received the highest award of the diploma 1 degree. In 1898, the Irkutsk museum exhibits were presented at the World Exhibition in Paris and made a great impression on visitors.

Rich collection allows the museum and today is actively developing its exposition and exhibition work. Over the past five years the museum was organized and hosted over 100 exhibitions. In 2000, opened a renewed permanent exhibition in the museum department of nature, causing great interest in the Irkutsk and visitors. In 2001, successfully hosted the exhibition of the museum in Japan - the Land of the lake: the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia ".

At today among the most valuable collections should be noted archaeological collections jade (one of the largest collections of Russia), a collection of shamanizmu local Siberian peoples, ornithological collection M. Berezovsky, paleontologic collection collection of paleolithic "Venus" (author's models MM Gerasimova), collections of ethnography (among them especially valuable relating to the numerically small Siberian peoples - tofam), a collection of maps of Siberia and the Far East, archives and personal belongings of famous scientists, VA Obruchev and GS Vinogradov, a collection of graphic material on the history of Irkutsk and Irkutsk province PI Pezhemskogo and IE Kozhevina, etc.

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