Description: Street K. Marksa, 2. The building of a museum is constructed in moorish style under the project of the architect of baron of. In. A rose tree in 1882-1883. In 1891 to the main building have made a two-storeyed extension. Means for construction of a new building - museum of the East-Siberian department of the Imperial Russian Geographical society were collected with all country. On a frieze of a museum building written 22 names known Russian and foreign scientific - researchers of Siberia and Asia: S.Krasheninnikova, F.Vrangelja, V.Beringa, P. Pallasa, I.Georgi, I.Cherskogo, N.Przhevalskogo, G.Millera, A.Middendorfa, A.Gumbol'ta etc. the Âîñòî÷íî-Siberian department of Russian Geographical society has left an appreciable trace in a history. From here there left all expeditions organized by Russia, to the Far East, to Mongolia, to China. In walls of a museum known scientists - researchers worked: G.Miller - the author of " the History of Siberia ", V.A.Obruchev - the well-known traveller, the scientist and the writer - visionary. To the left of an input in a museum is stone ñòåëà, Ivolginsky a stone (VII-V centuries up), from a pink granite with numerous lines of contours of animals. The stone is found out in 1856, figures on it concern to the Skifo-Siberian animal style. In a building on two floors the exposition of a department of a history of the Irkutsk regional study of local lore museum is placed.Now in a museum more than 300 thousand exhibits. The exposition acquaints with a collection of ethnographic subjects from a bone, a tree, metal, clothes practically all peoples of Siberia. The museum has the largest assembly of subjects of an orthodox cult, shamanism, a Lamaism, a collection of ornaments, the weapon. Among unique monuments of material culture assembly nefrit's products newstone centuries. The museum stores rare written documents of XVII century on development of Siberia. |