We hoped to get a lot of information about the baikallake and the area around the lake. There weren't guides available but the said that it would be written in English. Inside it wasn't written in English, so we had a fun afternoon learning the cyrrilic alphabeth instead learning more about the lake. We had to pay extra for a movie and offcourse we expected a planet-earth-like movie but it wasn't. It was a movie about plankton in their on language. The seals were fun tought!
The museum itself is not particularly interesting, but the aquarium is fine and the Baikal seal kept there is very, very cute.The tree-garden outside is very nice and the boardwalks provide a lovely view of the lake
explores breadth and depth (literally and figuratively) of this amazing lake. If you are going to spend any time at Lake Baikal, this museum affords a good background of geological, biological and geographical facts regarding this enormous lake. Particularly fascinating is the exhibit of the micro-organisms and Omul fish that destroy pollutants--especially since the week after our tour group returned from Russia there was a story in the papers about people poaching these amazing Omul fish-- a silvery member of the salmon family unique to the lake-- to be used apparently in cosmetics. So now there are armed guards on parts of the shore. Sad about the pudgy seals forced to swim in such a small tank. Sill worth a visit.
There is little English-language information here, but that wasn't a problem because one of the staff members volunteered to take us through the museum on our very own English-language tour. If you're visiting Listvyanka, spend an hour or so here. It's quite interesting, and you'll take away some fascinating information about Lake Baikal and the surrounding area. The museum's Nerpa seals are a big hit with visitors, too.
The museum is the place that you must visit, if you're visiting Lake Baikal region. All of people know Lake Baikal as it is the deepest in the world and purest in the world etc However, I bet that not many of them know how Lake Baikal was formatted, when it is created, why it is the purest one and what life is in the Lake. As I'm visiting this museum, I found out that little inspects are the main role player for lake's purification, a "Nerpa" - lovely seal lives there etc.
a great insight to the Lake Baikal & surrounding, you can get lots of different info about the Lake, its' flora and fauna. recommended.
博物馆内介绍了贝加尔湖的生态环境和历史,还陈列了多种生物标本,还有淡水海豹可以参观哦!不过海豹们的活动空间太小了,看着好可怜。二层的实验室可以亲自体验,用显微镜观察湖里的微生物,非常好的互动方式!还有模拟的潜水艇,进去后会有工作人员给大家介绍不同深度的水生物。遗憾的是各种展品极少有英文介绍,90%都是俄文的,要不是有导游带领着,真的看不懂哦!
It's really a very unique place with a lot of scientist work done to make it informative and interesting. It contains a lot of models and aquariums with real fish and the Baikal Njerpa (the local fresh water seal). One of the seals was saved by museum's staff from the illegal hunters.
It was fascinating to learn all about the facts surrounding Lake Baikal. See the different gems and fish from the lake.
Very well done. Showed the history and inhabitants of lake baikal. Seals were gorgeous and interesting to learn about them.