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, USSR Academy of Sciences. The initiator of the Museum's collection in the late 1940s made the Mining and geological Institute of the Western-Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The Museum collection is directly linked with the name of a famous Professor, connoisseur Siberian fields, G. L. Pospelova. In Akademgorodok the Museum operates since 1961

In the exposition of the Central Siberian geological Museum presents various ores and minerals of Siberia, fragments of meteorites, fossil fauna and flora, as well as a rich collection of minerals grown in the laboratories of the Institute, including minerals, have no natural analogues. The geological Museum contains samples of minerals not only from all regions of the country, but also from fifty countries. The collection presents 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 Druse danburite, which weighs 200 kg, and its price – about $ 1 million. Druse danburite delivered to Novosibirsk from the Far East in the 1960s of the last century. The Museum has another exhibit, merit special attention. About 20 years ago on Timescom field in Mountain Shoria students was found a huge nugget of copper. A sample, which is stored in the Novosibirsk Museum, weighs 700 kg. the Most recent exhibit, which entered the establishment, has become the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

One of the showcases of the Museum is an artificial karst cave. In addition dripstone formations - stalactites and stalagmites in the cave presents and crystal formation of aragonite and calcite.

Exhibited in the Museum hall collection systematized accordingly to the classification proposed an outstanding mineralogist A. Godovikov.