Organised in 2009 by a family of Irina and Yuri Dryomin, The Museum of Happiness quickly became popular for ‘the feeling of pure joy it leaves you with’, as visitors say.
The owners of the museum travel the world to gather the items, symbolising happiness to people of different cultures.
There is a collection of ‘German Happiness’, along with the one for France, Russia and Kazakhstan.
An ancient doll and a mythical animal were buried with a child from the Okunev culture in the Bronze Age.
Nature makes its own collection of snowballs on the Arctic shore of the Gulf of Ob.
Unique pieces of skin from the late Jurassic era dinosaurs has been uncovered in a natural 'time capsule' by scientists in the Trans-Baikal region.
This exceptional collection of brightly coloured historic engines and carriages, dating from pre-revolutionary times, is fascinating as much for the casual visitor as the railway fanatic.
You can climb into many of the old exhibits, and get a sense of the extraordinary Soviet locomotives that opened up Siberia in the age of steam.
From the city, you can get here by local train, perhaps combining a visit with sightseeing in Akademgorodok and at the Ob Sea.
A group of Russian billionaires spent over 3 million euro at French auction to buy historic papers of the man who tried - and failed - to halt Bolsheviks.
More than 20 calves born although park keepers say there could be more.
Apparently the only USSR museum in Russia, opened in 2009 and situated in a pretty 1917-built wooden house, nestled between the city centre office and residence blocks.
So far it is more a chaotic collection of all kinds of items from the Soviet times, from iron hair-straightener to an old fashioned TV set, and famous Soviet perfumes, rather than a systemised museum exposition-but it is still worth a visit!
Some of the items are for sale.
Almost 1,300 bones of 13 species of mammals unearthed at new site on Gydan peninsula aged between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.