Museum of Buryat Science Center Soran
Ulan-Ude, ul. Sakhyanova, 8The Mineralogical Museum is the only academic museum in Transbaikalia. In the exposition there is a rich collection of nephrite of Buryatia of various colors and shades, beautiful collections of decorative marble, landscape jasper, various chalcedony.
Museum of History of Buryatia them. Khangalova
Ulan-Ude, ul. Profsoyuznaya, 29The Museum of History of Buryatia is one of the oldest in Siberia. Here you can find interesting materials on archeology and religious cults (shamanism, Orthodoxy, Buddhism). In the museum's collection there are rare books and coins, a rich collection of Buddhist tanks (icons). Exhibition of contemporary paintings and works of arts and crafts.
Ethnographic museum of the peoples of Transbaikalia in Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude, the village. Верхняя Березовка ул. Museum, 17bThe ethnographic museum of the Transbaikal peoples is a museum complex in the open air in the near suburb of Ulan-Ude - the picturesque area of the Upper Berezovka microdistrict. One of the largest open-air museums in Russia, it was opened in mid-summer 1973
Ethnographic Museum of Ulan-Ude
Ulan-Ude, the village. Upper BerezovkaIn the museum, located near suburbs, under the open sky there are several interesting historical objects related to the life and culture of the peoples of Transbaikalia. Great interest of visitors is caused by traditional dwellings, tools and household goods of the peoples of Transbaikalia.
To get acquainted with the historical past of the city and all of Buryatia, you can get a general idea of the region, its nature, people, traditions, customs, religions and many other things by visiting these beautiful places and getting acquainted with the museums of Ulan-Ude. They are clearly illustrated with the help of artifacts, painstakingly collected and preserved by fanatically devoted employees of museums, rich material and cultural values of the past, diversity of fauna and flora, treasures of the Transbaikalian interior.
One of the most unique in Russia and the largest in Buryatia is the Ethnographic Museum of the Transbaikalian peoples, which was established in 1973 on more than one hundred hectares of the picturesque Sukhoi Kluch Valley (the Upper Berezovka region). There are several complexes in the museum, separated from each other by thick forest belts and representing all the ethnic groups of Transbaikalia: archaeological, Buryat, Evenki, Russian, trade-craft, Old Believer, city and wildlife.
Houses, yurts, plagues, furnishings, hunting accessories, shoes, clothes, objects of applied art and everyday life, cult and farm buildings - everything gives us an idea of how people used to live here. Often on the territory of the museum hold festivals, folk festivals and festivals, not to mention different thematic excursions.
Another remarkable museum in Ulan-Ude, the oldest in Siberia, is the Museum of the History of Buryatia, which became one of the first in the city, opened in 1923 .and today has the status of a major scientific and local lore center .It contains remarkable archaeological and religious (Orthodoxy, shamanism, Buddhism) materials, rare coins, books, Buddhist icons, carved details of Datsan jewelry, sculptures from wood of Buryat masters (From .Tsybikov), masks of Dokshits from papier-mache .The exhibition of arts and crafts of modern painting introduces the art of Thailand, India, China, Nepal, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet and Buryatia and contains rare earliest Buddha images .
The Museum of Nature of Buryatia (1979) is unique in its kind. He presents samples of the marginal flora and fauna, the history of the geology of the Baikal region, objects found in archeological expeditions from the sites of primitive people and the Huns.
In Ulan-Ude, there are several interesting museums, trips to which are always fascinating and informative: the Geological Museum in the building of the geological department on Lenin Street, the museum of Ulan-Ude, opened in 2002 in the former merchant Goldobin's house, the Artists' Union of the Union of Artists Buryatia Museum of the Buryat Scientific Center of the SB RAS. But each of them pursues only one common goal - to arouse keen interest and love for this wonderful original territory.