East Siberian Museum of Microbiology of ISU

The team of the organization employs ten employees and eight researchers. The museum collection includes more than two thousand five hundred items, four hundred items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The Museum of Microbiology is created within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Integration" on the initiative of the Institute of Geochemistry of the SB RAS and the Department of Microbiology of the ISU. The museum is part of the East Siberian Educational and Scientific Center for Fundamental Natural Science, approved in 1997 (project No. A0037, p/p 181 - direction of microbiology). It performs not only traditional functions - scientific, collectible, public-educational, but also purely microbiological: search and selection of cultures of microorganisms with productive and valuable properties, preservation of their gene pool, and in the future - deposit of cultures. The main task of the museum is to convey to the public all aspects of the life of microorganisms, to discover the secrets of the existence of orderlies and transformers of nature, to illuminate their diversity and role in the circulation of various substances. Expositions are formed on the scientific and industry principle and affect the field of general, water, soil, geological, medical, food microbiology and plant protection products. The materials will give an idea of the patterns of microbial function in natural ecosystems, including the East Siberian region. The East Siberian Museum of Microbiology of 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 among the participants. The East Siberian Museum of Microbiology of ISU is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: cultural and mass, research and educational. In addition to the main exhibition and research of phonods, educational programs are held in the museum.