Formation of ecological culture by museum technologies

The article is devoted to the experience of working out and practice of holding the excursion-lecture “The Red Book of the Buryatia Republic”. The excursion-lecture is based on natural science research of the Institutes of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences situated in Buryatia in the area of monitoring rare species of mammals, birds and also the plants of the Republic. The results of this research are reflected at the exposition section in the museum.