Cultural program
Within the framework PTB-2012 will be organized the following cultural measures
I. AKADEMGORODOK EXCURSION AND LOCAL MUSEUMS VISITING
Information:
Bus sightseeing excursion in the Akademgorodok scientific center, visiting Geological museum, Sun museum and Ob lake & storage dam.
GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM was founded in 1958. The museum exhibition represents mineralogical samples from more than 50 countries and all the regions of Russia. The museum collection contains 1000 mineralogical samples (the total number of exhibits is about 20 thousand). The exhibition has 56 meteorite samples of total mass about 150 kg. The large exposition also presents more than 60 artificially synthesized minerals.
The museum represents about 10 thousand samples of minerals and fossils from Siberia and Far East in the exposition hall and more than 25 thousand samples in the museum funds.
The idea of SUN MUSEUM was born in 1986.
Nowadays the museum collection contains about 1500 exhibits dedicated to Sun. More than 500 of them are woodcutting works of the museum founder V.I. Lipenkov.
The museum exhibits the folk’s tradition of Sun and Solar system depiction, images of Sun gods and Solar symbols in petroglyphic drawings of aincient peoples, artificers’ works related to Sun.
The NOVOSIBIRSK HYDRO POWER STATION construction on the Ob Lake/River began in 1950, finished in 1961. The energy production for the 40 years of Hydro Power Station work amounts to 74 billions kilo watts per hour. It is equivalent to 24 millions tons of coal. The width of the dam is 223,6 m, height is 33 м.
II. NOVOSIBIRSK EXCURSION
Information:
The bus excursion will show Novosibirsk historical places and several fountains: The Ob Buoyant fountain, The River Civilizations fountain, Musical fountain, etc.
III. EXCURSION TO NOVOSIBIRSK ZOO
See details below and at the official NOVOSIBIRSK ZOO web-site: http://www.zoonovosib.ru/?en
IV. Altay
http://conf.nsc.ru/files/conferences/PTB2012/102110/Altay_PTB-2012.pdf