Central Siberian Geological Museum in the city of Novosibirsk was founded in July 1958 as a research unit of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS. The initiator of the museum collection in the late 1940s. made of Mining and Geology Institute of the West Siberian Branch of the USSR. The museum's collection is directly linked with the name of a famous professor, expert on Siberian fields, GL Pospelov. The Academic Museum acts since 1961

The exposition of the Central Siberian Geological Museum presents a variety of ores and minerals Siberia, fragments of meteorites, fossil fauna and flora, as well as a rich collection of minerals, grown in the laboratories of the Institute, including the minerals that have no natural analogues. The geological museum has mineral specimens not only from all regions of the country, but from fifty countries. The collection includes more than one thousand different minerals. In general, the museum has about 20 thousand exhibits.

One of the main features of the museum is the world's largest Druze danburite whose weight is 200 kg and its cost - about $ 1 million. Drusus danburite brought to Novosibirsk from the Far East in the 1960s. the last century. The museum has another exhibit that deserves special attention. About 20 years ago Taymetskom field in Mountain Shoria student was discovered a huge nugget of copper. That pattern, which is stored at the Novosibirsk Museum weighs 700 kg. The latest exhibit, which was received by the institution, became the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

One of the showcases of the museum takes artificial karst cave. Apart from wandering formations - stalactites and stalagmites in the cave are presented and crystalline formations - aragonite and calcite.

Exhibited in the museum hall collection systematized, respectively classification proposed by eminent mineralogist A. Godovikova.