Nature and Ecology Museum was opened on 3rd September 2005 in the building of a former water tower, built in 1953. Its height is 32.7 m, diameter – 8 m. The exhibit space is 300 sq. m., more than a thousand items of natural history collection is on display. An epigraph to the exhibition is the words of Y. Bondarev: “Environmental awareness is a ladder that connects earth, sky and man into a single union”.