• The Novosibirsk Regional Museum of Local History
• The museum of the Sun
• The Novosibirsk State Gallery
• Archeology and ethnography museum of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences
• Siberian Birch Bark Museum
• Railroad engineering museum

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The Novosibirsk Regional Museum of Local History

The Museum of local history was formed as a museum of World’s Vision in 1920. And in 1920s as a result of active expeditions a great ethnographical material on russian old residents and indigenous population of Siberia, including unique shamanian collection was collected. At the same time a library and natural science collection including complete skeleton of mammoth, found in Novosibirsk oblast in 1939, were formed. New arrivals of 1920-30s make a basis of the best museum collections - ethnographical, archeological, paleontological, documentary photographs, arms and furniture.

Contemporary museum has three expositions placed in different buildings. The main building of museum is situated in the very city center. It is a former commercial construction built in 1910, where regional history expositions dated from paleolith to modern times and exhibition spaces are placed. The central exhibition hall has a unique acoustics – here concerts of famous singers and musicians are regularly held. In one of the other museum’s buildings “The nature of Novosibirskaya oblast” exhibition and exposition halls of contemporary art are placed and in other hall there is a memorial exposition “S.M.Kirov in Siberia”.
Address: 630099, Novosibirsk, Krasny Prospect Street, 23
Phone number: +7 (383) 227-1543
e-mail: adm@museum.nsk.ru
web: http://museum.nsk.ru/
opening hours: 10.00-18.00 (Wednesday - Friday); 11.00-19.00 (Saturday, Sunday). On Mondays and Tuesdays the museum is closed.

The museum of the Sun

The visitors of Novosibirsk will be very surprised by a Museum of the Sun. The idea of it’s creation appeared in 1980 and still over a period of 15 years there have been made attempts to realize it in Akademgorodok. Why it was decided to create such a museum? The fact is that there is no such a museum in the world. There are lots of museums that have sun symbols or iconography of ancient Sun gods, but there is no museum that could summarize all the artifacts and information accumulated by people and worship of eternal celestial body and fountain of life.

Founder and director of museum V. Lipenkov over the last 15 years the Sun museum made a huge collection of images of the sun and wooden Indian Sun gods, and imported metal goods, ceramic ware, fabrics from India. Also the collection includes the gifts from visitors and friends who had been to India. The lack of space for expositions puts obstacles in the way of placing all the unique collections. But now it is problem of the past. The museum got additional building and now has an opportunity to relocate one of its biggest museum collections into separate hall – the hall of an Indian tradition- that is undoubtedly one of the favorites of the staff and visitors.

Address: Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Ivanova street, 11a
Phone number: +7 (383) 339-91-26
e-mail: sun-museum@yandex.ru
web: http://www.sunmuseum.ru/

The Novosibirsk State Gallery

The museum’s collection includes belongings of the end of 1950 and the beginning of 1960s, given by the USSR, Moscow committee of RSFSR, Tretyakovskaya Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pavlovsky museum – palace, Pushkin State Museum of Visual arts, the Hermitage Museum and other Russian museums. In 1960s-80s the museum pursue its own policy of accession of its funds. In the collection, a Russian art’s section is prevalent. Now when characterizing the museum’s exposition it’s inevitable not to mention works of  D. G. Levitsky, V.A. Tropinin, I.M. Pryanishnikov, I.E. Repin, V.I. Surikov, A.Y. Golovin, Z.E. Serebryakova, N.I. Mashkov, R.R. Falk, P.P. Konchalovsky, F. K. Uon, N.K. Rerih. A foreign art section includes casts from antique sculpture, graphic works and pictures of European masters of  XVI – XX centuries (A.van Everdingen, G. Rober, the master of circle N. Pussen and the portrait of a woman in the form of Flora, attributable to Rembrand’s pupil – N.Masu).

Address: 660007, Novosibrsk, Krasny Prospect, 5
Phone number: +7(383)  223-53-31
e-mail: guk-nkg@narod.ru
web: www.nsartmuseum.ru/
Opening hours: 11.00 – 19.00 (Tuesday-Friday); 13.00 – 19.00 (Saturday, Sunday); on Monday the museum is closed.

Archeology and ethnography museum of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences

Not very big exposition shows Siberian and Far Eastern archeological monuments dated from paleolith to the middle ages. There is a special hall with excavation goods of Gorny Altai pazirikski barrows where you can see Scythian times(V century B.C.)grand people’s tattooed mummies and rich funeral inventory preserved  in lenses of under barrow frost.

Address: Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya Street, 4
Phone number: +7(383) 3303572  

Siberian Birch Bark Museum

Today the museum “Siberian Birch Bark” is the only one expositional center that has a unique collection of decorative and applied arts and modern works from birch bark.

The museum was opened in 2002 and it has a great collection of more than 400 works of authorship from birch bark made by Siberian painters and masters from Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Mariinsk, Perm, Prokopyevsk and many other towns where such kind of handicraft exists in various stiles and areas.

In the museum you can not only look at the works of authorship but also buy some of them.

Address: 630132, Novosibirsk, Gorkogo Street, 16
Phone number: 7 (383) 210-18-80
e-mail: museum-beresta@mail.ru
web: http://www.museum-beresta.ru
opening hours: 11.00 – 18.30 (Tuesday-Friday), 12.00 – 18.00 (Saturday)

Railroad engineering museum

It is a very interesting open-air museum stretched for three km in the Sovetsky district of the city near the “Seyatel” station of railway Novosibirsk-Berdsk. This museum is the largest of that kind over the Urals. The idea of it appeared in 1996. And the museum was opened in August of 2000 year. The museum’s collection includes more than 100 steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, coaches and special machinery that show us history of Russian rail transport from pre-Revolutionary up to modern times. There are also such unique objects as model of steamer stagecoach projected by brothers Cherepanovy (they made a first Russian steam locomotive), service armour coach of 1898, private coach of Trotsky, almost the whole ambulance train of the Second world war times, some pre-Revolutionary steam locomotives. The collection is always updated with historical and modern machinery and not only railway. In 2006 the collection of retro cars was also included. The museum is not only for visiting it is also holds exhibitions and organizes retro car rallies.

Address: Novosibirsk, Rzyezdnaya Street, 54a
Phone number: 7(383)229-66-22