Museum of Nature and Man

Description

The present history of the Museum of Nature and Man takes its origin from the Regional Historical Museum of Ostyako-Vogulsk region opened in 1934 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Museum was reconstructed several times and presently represents one of the modern museums in Ural region and Russia. The Museum includes several research departments: archeology, natural history, paleonthology, history and ethnography; except exhibitions. The Museum provides storage areas and conditions for long-term storage, restoration laboratories and organizes regular expeditions in the borders of Yugra region. The collection database is managed in the common Russian Museum’s Information System KAMIS (http://www.ugramuseum.ru/kng/?group-by=fund) from which they could be studied online, or downloaded as csv spreadsheet. The biological collection of the Museum of Nature and Man represents about 3800 specimens, including zoological specimens - stuffed animals, carcasses and skins (2416), herbarium sheets (1095) and dried specimens of fungi (250). The historical collection of specimens dates back to the 1930th. The Herbarium holds historical collection of specimens made by Yu.I. Gordeev, K.V.Garnovskiy, E.V.Dorogostayskaya – botanists working in the area in 40-70th. An important part of the collection represented receipts from the inventory work in Nature Reserves made by botanists A.S. Baykalova, A.L. Vasina and others; and contemporary expeditions by the Museum’s employees. The biological collections of the Museum are stored under special conditions of temperature and humidity, and actively used in Museum’s exhibitions and educational activities. Several researchers are working with the collections in the Museum on permanent basis, as well as the collections are opened for studies by other researchers upon visiting the Museum. The beginning of the paleonthological collection of the Museum starts from 1930th and includes two periods, first period of spontaneous collection of accidentally excavated quaternary fauna, and second period of scientific paleonthological expeditions. The Paleonthology department was opened in the Museum in 1999, that event started purposeful research in the area and collection management. The field works were conducted in collaboration with the leading specialists in the Western Siberian paleontology from different Russian institutions. Totally the collection includes about 4356 storage specimens. The major part of the collection represented by the larger mammals fauna of the Upper Pleistocene collected in the borders of Yugra region and mainly from the paleo-deposits site “Lugovskoe” (36 km W of Khanty-Mansiysk). Several other important paleo-deposits sites were discovered, studied and stored in the Museum’s collection. These collections were supplemented by acquired from other museums Paleozoic and Mesozoic age, to represent the whole chronology in the Museum’s exhibition. The collection is actively used for demonstration in the Musem’s exhibitions and educational programs.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
8 (3467) 32-12-01 Belogay
Telephone: +7 (3467) 32-12-38
email: obelogay@umuseum.ru

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Nina Filippova
Telephone: +79527057846
email: filippova.courlee.nina@gmail.com

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Yulia Skuchas
Telephone: +7 (3467) 32-12-01
email: jjj3@mail.ru

Museum of Nature and Man
Mira street, 11
Khanty-Mansiysk
628011
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
RU
email: mnm@umuseum.ru