A.V.Sidorov Mineralogical Museum at IrSTU

A.V. Sidorov Mineralogical Museum at IrSTU was founded in 1930 and currently has one of the largest collections of minerals in Russia. Russia. Its funds number 35,000 exhibits. The basis of the collection is the collection of minerals of Eastern Siberia, in particular, the Irkutsk region. Also here you can see 1500 samples of various stones brought from foreign deposits.

In the halls of the Mineralogical Museum named after A.V. Sidorov at IrSTU, such unique exhibits as the mineral charoite (found only in Yakutia), a giant jade boulder weighing about 2 tons, called the "Saddle of Genghis Khan", single crystals of flogopit (74 kg), apatite (65 kg), muscovite (diameter 2 m), as well as rare tourmalines. Separate exhibitions are devoted to jewelry and stone-carving art. In addition, the museum has a shop where you can buy a variety of crafts and jewelry from gems. For visitors, the museum conducts group excursions, consultants on mineralogy work.