The Museum of Human Anatomy at the Irkutsk State Medical Academy is a commercial organization in the field of natural and fundamen …
The Irkutsk Regional Museum is the oldest museum of Siberia, founded on December 3, 1782, has priceless monuments of historical an …
The Ordy Museum of Local Lore is located in a separate building (15 Revolution Street), which was built in 1985 according to a sta …
The Irkutsk Regional Historical and Memorial Museum of the Decembrists is located in the heart of Irkutsk, its historical center. …
The first collectors of works of art appeared in Irkutsk in the XVIII century. The most significant collection of paintings belong …
Zalarinsky district is located in the south-western part of the Irkutsk region and is located 180 km from the regional center. It …
Architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy" is a unique collection of monuments of history, architecture and ethnography of the …
The State National Museum of the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Okrug has been working continuously since 01.06.1946. The museum empl …
A museum was founded in honor of historian-localist Nikolai Mikhailovich Revyakin. Revyakin himself was born in the Irkutsk villag …
A.V. Sidorov Mineralogical Museum at IrSTU was founded in 1930 and currently has one of the largest collections of minerals in Rus …
Музей истории города Иркутска — муниципальное бюджетное учреждение культуры, созданное в 1996 году. Выбрав в качестве основного об …
The Museum of Baikal Studies of the Limnological Institute in the form of a commercial organization, the main purpose of which is …
Irkutsk regional public organization "Association of masters of folk art and art craft "Onyx" receives guests from the thirtieth o …
The museum reflects the history of the development of the wagon depot for the period from 1897 to the present time, has 4 halls: H …
The gallery was built by architect, poet and artist Vladimir Plamenevsky in 1995. It is at the same time a creative cottage for th …
The team of the organization employs four employees and two researchers. The museum collection includes more than eight thousand i …
The oldest surviving icebreaker in the world was manufactured more than 100 years ago at the shipyard “Sir V.G. Armstrong, Wh …
The Museum of Military Glory of the Irkutsk State Technical University is determined by the order of the rector No. 15 of January …
The museum was organized in accordance with the order of the Ministry of Higher Education of the RSFSR 122 of 03.03.80. The museum …
Baikal Museum, located on the shore of the lakes. Baikal at the source of the Angara River, attracts the attention of all visitors …
Gallery "Workshop-5" was founded in Irkutsk in 1995. The main interest of the gallery is the contemporary art of Siberia. Such art …
The East Siberian Museum of Soil Science named after I.V. Nikolaev ISU receives visitors from the twenty-seventh of May one thousa …
On Lenin Avenue, house 2 of the city of Shuya is the famous Literary and Local Lore Museum named after K.D. Balmont. This museum w …
The team of the organization employs ten employees and eight researchers. The museum collection includes more than two thousand fi …
The exposition located in the church, built in 1710, tells about the history of the Irkutsk diocese. At the bell tower there is an …
The Ignin Art Museum operates in the form of a non-profit institution with an artistic specialization, that is, it does not have a …
The museum presents an amazing world of minerals and gems from different parts of the world. The fund has about 30,000 unique copi …
The Volkonsky House Museum was opened in 1985. In the partially recreated historical interiors of the houses of Trubetskoy and Vol …
Irkutsk is a city with a rich history on the banks of the Angara, where museum collections tell about the nature of Baikal, ethnography, scientific discoveries and the fate of people. A walk around the city easily turns into a journey through different eras: from merchant mansions of the historical center to open expositions on the shore of the lake. The museums of Irkutsk give a deep and vivid view of the region and create vivid impressions for families, researchers and art lovers.
A wide range of museums operates in the city and its surroundings: the Museum of Human Anatomy at the Irkutsk State Medical Academy, the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local History (founded on December 3, 1782), the Museum of Decembrists - Trubetsky House and the Volkonsky House-Museum, the V.P. Sukachev Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum with monuments of the XVII-X centuries, the Baikal Museum of the Institute of Limological Studies. The A.V. Sidorov Mineralogical Museum with one of the largest collections of minerals, the Angara icebreaker museum – a historical ship on the shore, zoology and fauna museums at ISU with collections of Baikal inhabitants, as well as private galleries and exhibition halls in Listvyanka and the city are especially memorable. In the vicinity, it is worth visiting the regional museums of the Ust-Ordyn district and the Zalarinsky district - they store local archaeological and ethnographic collections that complement the understanding of the region.
Museum life in Irkutsk is active: permanent and temporary expositions replace each other, scientific lectures, exhibition projects and thematic programs are held. Among the significant facts are the date of foundation of the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore on December 3, 1782 and the beginning of the work of the State National Museum of the Ust-Ordynsky Buryat AO from 01.06.1946, which reflect the long-term museum tradition of the region. In galleries and scientific institutes there are regularly imported and inter-museum exhibitions, educational projects for children and adults, and in summer and during the tourist season there are especially many special events and expositions dedicated to the history of Baikal and folk crafts.
Arriving in Irkutsk, you will have the opportunity to see unique collections and rare exhibits, to feel the atmosphere of the Siberian eras and the nature of Baikal. To make the trip richer, book a tour with a private guide: local specialists will make a personal route, discover little-known stories and help with logistics in museums and surroundings. Plan your itineraries in advance, book excursions and go on a cognitive journey through the museum Irkutsk - these are impressions that will stay with you for a long time.
