Zoological Museum of Tomsk State University

The Zoological Museum of Tomsk State University was founded in 1888. The first museum items began to arrive in Tomsk in the form of donations during the construction of the university: collections of birds and mammals of Central and East Asia I.F. Kamensky and G.A. Kolpakovsky, marine invertebrates of the Arctic Ocean N.A. Nordenskjöld and others. In the future, the collection was replenished as a result of scientific research by zoologists of the university. It includes various forms of storage of zoological collections: stuffed, carcasses, skins, wet preparations, skeletons, micropreparations. Expeditionary work and research were carried out by such well-known professors as G. E. Ioganzen, M. D. Ruzsky, V. V. Sapozhnikov, G. H. Iogansen, S. U. Stroganov. Their names are inscribed in the history of the museum.

Currently, the museum houses collections of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, fish, lower chord and invertebrates. The museum has a library, the collection of which includes scientific monographs, journals, impressions of articles, collections of materials of scientific conferences on zoological and environmental topics, as well as popular scientific publications. Funds are used for educational, scientific and educational activities.