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The Museum

The fragment of the exposition “The Ethnic Pictures”. From the photo-archive of the MEC.
Right photo: The exposition “The Ethnic Pictures”. From the photo-archive of the MEC.

Now the MEC is a large museum institution whose writer and the peculiarities of the region’s literary
workers are actively engaged in academic, scientific development.
and methodical, accounting and keeping, restoring, The museum funds has already counted almost 150
expositional and exhibitional, presenting and publishing thousand exhibits. The core of the paleontological
activity. It offers an academic library service and collection is undoubtedly represented by the skeleton of
develops a museum pedagogic direction. Mongochensky mammoth (the geological age is around
The basic audience of the MEC is children and 17 000 years), a fur rhinoceros, and the mummy of the
teenagers. The Children’s Centre, Military and baby mammoth Luba (the geological age is 42 000 years)
Historical Club as well as Einstein’s Museum of found in 2007. The discovery of the almost undisturbed
Entertaining Sciences work especially for them. The mummy of the mammoth became a scientific sensation.
Family auditory is included in different excursions Luba is the most demanded museum exhibit and several
around the city and museum, under the project «New exhibitions were held with its participation. They are
Tour». The creative studio “musART” works for the successfully conducted in Russia and abroad. Luba has
grown-up audience. been to many countries (Japan, Great Britain, the USA,
The complex total area is about 10 000 м , the Hong Kong, Canada, and Australia) become the most
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expositional and exhibitional one is 3 890 м . The MEC “flying” museum exhibit: the total distance that was
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structure includes the museum with a depository and “covered” by the baby mammoth during travelling is
display space; the exhibition centre with the exhibition more than 100 000 km.
hall, the administrative centre with the conference The Northern archeology specifics is reflected by
hall. L. Laptsuya’s flat and museum is a structural unit a great number of artefacts from organic materials
that studies the creative work of the famous Nenets remained due to their position in the eternal frost

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