baikal limnological museum

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！

The museum technically has three floors, but the main stuff is on the first. They cover both the historic and geological aspects of Lake Baikal, as well as the plant and animal life. There is no English translation on anything, but it is not really necessary since most of the displays are visual and graphic representations. The most interesting section were the tanks that contain an array of the native fish and, of course, the nerpas (Siberian seals). There were only two of them this time, but they were quite playful. It took about an hour to go through it all (and we were going slow). It can be a bit of a trek on foot if you are coming from the other end of Listvyanka (about 1.5 miles), but there are plenty of taxis around town that go back and forth. We walked down and stopped for lunch en route, but took a taxi back as it was getting too cold.

Lots of really interesting parts but not fully accessible if you aren't fluent in Russian. We phoned ahead and we're told in winter there is only one tour per day and it was in Russian. We went along anyway and while most of the information is only available in Russian, you can still get a good sense if what is going on. Looking at the plankton through the microscopes was fascinating. The nerpas are very cute, but it was sad to see them in such a small tank. The video is worth the extra 50 roubles. A really friendly lady put it on in English for us.

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.

a great insight to the Lake Baikal & surrounding, you can get lots of different info about the Lake, its' flora and fauna. recommended.

The museum was helpful in giving some details about lake Baikal and the fish etc only found there - exhibits includes some Nerpa seals which are interesting to see because of their bloated shape but it was a shame they were in such a small tank.held in a really small tank.

Very well done. Showed the history and inhabitants of lake baikal. Seals were gorgeous and interesting to learn about them.

It was fascinating to learn all about the facts surrounding Lake Baikal. See the different gems and fish from the lake.

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

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.

Very informative and lots of visual ( fish, water) etc . We were well educated on the largest fresh water lake in the world with lots to see and learn.

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.

Our guidebook said everything in the museum was in Russian, that was not strictly true, there was enough information in English to make it an enjoyable visit and the lady who "drove" the submarine kindly managed to get over the key points in English.The lake is amazing but you do need the background information which the museum gives to fully appreciate it. If you have taken the trouble to get to Lake Baikal it would be daft not to give the museum a visit.

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.

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!