M.M. Kozhov Baikal Fauna Museum at ISU

The team of the organization employs four employees and two researchers. The museum collection includes more than eight thousand items, three thousand items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The expositions reflect the uniqueness of the Baikal fauna and flora. The museum exhibits collections of Baikal endemics: mollusks, gammarides, gobies, insects, as well as a collection of numerous representatives of the animal world that inhabit the depths of the seas and oceans. The special pride of the museum is the magnificent paintings by the artist B.I. Lebedinsky, depicting Baikal. In the exposition of the museum there are rare photos and documents about the history of the faculty, the department of the museum; ancient devices, personal belongings of the famous Baikalologist M.M. Kozhov. The Kozhov Museum of Baikal Fauna at ISU operates in the form of a non-profit institution in the field of natural and fundamental sciences, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between participants. The main activities of the museum: research and educational. The main priorities of the museum are scientific work and development of educational programs on its basis.