The Novosibirsk Museum of Local History is one of the leading museums in the city, occupying an area of 7626 m2. The museum includes 6 branches, of which five are located within Novosibirsk: the Museum of Local History, the Museum of Nature, the Museum of Siberian Communications, the Museum of Olympic Glory, and the Museum of the City Estate of Novo-Nikolaevska. Here you will see thousands of exhibits that are of historical value to our generation and attend educational events.
Unique exhibits of the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History
The main building of the local history museum at 23 Krasny Prospekt houses about 210,000 valuable exhibits: archeological collections, glass, porcelain, clothing from different periods, and numismatic collections. It will be interesting for you and your child. You will be able to get acquainted with the objects of worship and everyday life of the peoples of Siberia. These treasures of the local history museum exhibition were found during expeditions back in the 1920s and 1930s and have been preserved in their most original form.
From Geology to Music: Events at the Local History Museum
The history of the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History begins in 1920. The first exhibition on the museum’s territory was devoted to geology and astronomy. Now the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History organizes exhibitions on various topics from nature to art, and also holds weekly concerts from its own music collection. You can find out the addresses of branches and the poster of all events on the official website of the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History. Ticket prices start from 100 rubles.
Real Mammoth Skeleton in the Museum of Nature
In the branch of the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History – the Museum of Nature. located at ul. Vokzalnaya Magistral, 11, you will find fully restored skeletons of mammoths, striking in their size. A female, a male and a baby are unique exhibits of the mammoth hall of the museum. Their peculiarity is that they are amazingly preserved, almost all the bones remain intact.
The Rock of Curiosities and the Amethyst Geode
The Nature Museum also features an amazing rock of curiosities. Here you can touch the most ancient sea animals that have fossilized over time and turned into part of the rock. The theme of the Nature Museum also includes an exhibition with unique finds of precious and ornamental stones. Among them is an amethyst geode in the shape of a jewelry box.
Be sure to visit the Nature Museum, especially if you are in Novosibirsk with your whole family!
The first Soviet television in the Siberian Communications Museum
The branch of the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History, the “Museum of Siberian Communications” at 33 Sovetskaya St., has a large collection dedicated to the means of communication of the 20th century. Here you will learn what a postman looked like in the last century, the first Soviet television, the first computers that appeared in Siberia.
History of Champions in the Olympic Glory Museum
Without leaving the address ul.Sovetskaya, 33, you can get to the Olympic Glory Museum. It is located in the same building as the Siberian Communications Museum.
Among the exhibits here are cups, medals, certificates, equipment items of Siberian champions Alexander Tikhonov, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Alexander Karelin, Evgeny Podgorny, Viktor Markin and many others.
Everyday life of townspeople at the beginning of the 20th century in the museum "City estate of Novo-Nikolaevsk"
Another branch of the local history museum, the “City Estate of Novo-Nikolaevsk” museum, is located in one of the few surviving houses of pre-revolutionary Novo-Nikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk) on Lenin Street, 23. A cab driver once lived in this house, from whom the famous revolutionary Alexander Petukhov rented a room. The layout has been preserved and the interior has been restored with furniture and household items of the townspeople of that time. The museum is shrouded in the spirit of the bourgeoisie with its measured and well-appointed way of life.
Each of the branches of the Novosibirsk Museum of Local History is worthy of your attention, find time to travel back in time!
The administrator of the “Hotel N” is always happy to help you and tell you how to get to all the sights of Novosibirsk.
