Museum of Natural History of the North-Eastern Comprehensive Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The museum was established in 1977 on the basis of the collections of the Institute’s staff as a geological and mineralogical museum. Later it was renamed, in 2002 it was supplemented by an ethnographic and archaeological collection, exhibited in a separate hall. Departments: Geology and Mineralogy, Archaeology and Ethnography. It is a scientific unit of the Institute. The head of the museum is a leading researcher working on the research programs of the institute. The main functions are storage, replenishment and improvement of expositions, educational work (from 1,200 to 1,800 visitors annually, of which about 70% are students of various educational institutions of the city), scientific work on the research programs of the Institute.