The mammoth Museum in Yakutsk - the world's only dedicated Museum, studying and exhibiting a unique paleontological exhibits. The Museum was founded in 1991 as a research and cultural centre, which deals with the study of mammoths and their living environment in the ice age. The main initiator of creation of the Museum was made by the first Yakut Mamontov Peter A. Lazarev.

During archaeological excavations in the bowels of Yakutia archaeologists discovered unique finds cave lions, mammoths, bison, woolly rhinoceros, musk ox and other extinct animals. Prior to the founding of the Museum the majority of the finds of fossil animals immediately went to the Central institutions of the largest cities in the country. The creation of the Museum of a mammoth have the possibility to conduct all the necessary research and to leave them deposited directly in the city of Yakutsk.

In July 1998, the Museum became part of the Institute of applied ecology of the North, Academy of Sciences of Sakha(Yakutia). And in 2011, he became a structural subdivision of the new North-Eastern Federal University named after M. Ammosov, occupying one of the premises of this University.

Among the many stands you can see a copy of the famous mammoth Dima, was found in 1977 in the upper reaches of the Kolyma river. Today, this exhibit is located in Saint Petersburg. In a relatively short time, the Museum has managed to collect a large collection of bone remains of animals of the mammoth fauna. Currently, the osteological collections of the Museum of a mammoth are 1,450 units.

The mammoth Museum is one of the most interesting museums of the city. The Museum maintains fruitful cooperation with highly qualified specialists in Germany, France, Japan and the UK. Organized numerous expeditions and conduct joint research.