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Museum of Local Lore

Irkutsk regional Museum is one of the oldest museums in Russia, was founded in December 1782 on the initiative of the Governor of Irkutsk F. Klichka, who urged the city fathers to donate funds for the construction of the Museum and the first KNIGHTRIDERS. Responded local merchants - Melnikova, Tudorovskii, Medvednikova, Trapeznikova basnin worked, the sibiryakovs and butyny. A significant sum was made and the Governor F. Nickname. The main organizers and founders of the Museum and library of the Academy of Sciences naturalist Alexander Karamyshev, who was in charge of the library, and honorary member of the Academy of Sciences Eric Laxman. During his travels in Russia E. Laxman has captured the unique mineralogical collection and herbarium, which formed the basis of two museums - the Museum of St. Petersburg mining Institute and in Irkutsk.

Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, located in a beautiful mansion on the Angara Embankment, is one of the oldest in the region. It was founded in 1782 on the initiative of the local governor, and in the late XIX century it was awarded the first place diploma at the All-Russia Industrial and Art Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod. 

Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore contains historical and scientific expositions, the exhibition "Window to Asia" and "Children's Museum". The Department of Nature keeps paleontological, zoological and geological finds, while the Historical Section presents ethnographic and archaeological collections and an exhibition dedicated to the development of the Angara region. Everything in the museum has remained as it was in Soviet times: modest inscriptions at the exhibits and old glass cabinets. So the trip here will be a kind of a journey into the past. "Window to Asia" is a department of the museum, located in Irkutsk Sloboda. Its exposition is devoted to the contribution of Irkutsk and the researchers of Siberia and the Far East to the development and joining of its Asian part to Russia. The "Children's Museum", also located in Irkutsk Sloboda, has a collection of toys, including those of the native peoples of the Baikal region. Here you can also find a recreated gymnasium class of the late XIX century.