The museum of Local Lone was opened in Barnaul in 1823. So our Museum is one of the first Museums in Russia. It's funds were: P.Frolov a progressive public man, the head of Kolyvan-Voskresensk mining district and F. Gebler docor of Medecine, a naturalist and an explorer of the Altai. Today the museum collection numbers over 130000 monuments of natural history, material and spiritual culture. Especially rich are collections on archeology, ethnography, history of mining business. the collection of maps and rare books contains about five hundred copies. Annually about 120 thousand people visit the museum.