Museum Group

HEAD Constantin A. Lutaenko

Staff numbers 5.

The Institutes museum was set up in 1994 in an effort to form a system of qualified storage and exhibition of collections of sea animals and plants. The museum's collections comprise more than 40,000 specimens, of which the greater part has not yet been cataloged. Malacological and ichtyological collections are the largest. The collection of corals from the laboratory of Benthos Ecology and the collection of sea flora and fauna assembled by the staff of the Far Eastern State Marine Reserve will be transferred to the Museum. One of the museum s exhibitions will show the advance in marine biology in the Russia Far East and the evolution of research at the Institute In the museum s halls there will be aquaria with inhabitants of the sea, particular Peter the Great Bay. Demonstration of underwater videofilms and ecological lectures form a part of the museum s educational program. Also our objective is to engage in museum s activities school-children and students of the Junior Academy of Marine Biology.

Phone: 32-05-43