Project Activities
1. Establishment of a Museum Exhibition
The exhibition will show a realistic seal resting place and a real pup as well as a winter hole with a young seal. The exhibition will provide details on the way of life, nutrition, procreation and protection of the seal.
2. Preparation and Implementation of Interactive Encounters with visitors. Museum staff, together with GRAN experts, will develop a series of interactive technologies to make the Baikal seal more attractive to children. Young museum visitors will have the opportunity to change into the young Kuma seal, dive into the water and explore the underwater world themselves. Young guests may take part in different handicraft workshops as well as in creative games and competitions. Films about the Baikal seal will be shown as well. The young seals playground will inspire many children to visit the magic Lake Baikal.
3. Organisation of an Educational Seminar for Teachers and Workshops for Pupils. Experts in museum pedagogy from Moscow, GRAN experts and staff of the nature museum in Ulan-Ude will be involved in the preparation of the educational seminars.
4. Preparation and Publication of a Brochure about the Baikal Seal. It is planned to publish three brochures for small children: "Where do seals live? "What do seals eat?“, "Why do I change my colour?“. Additionally, two info flyers about the protection of the Baikal seal shall be distributed.
5. Analytical Part – Summary, evaluation, monitoring of the impacts on the ecological awareness of the museum visitors.
The exhibition on the Baikal seal will significantly contribute to promote the value of nature, environmental protection and environmental education. Every year, about 20,000 visitors are expected, about 35,000 children and adolescents shall take part in the planned activities.
The exhibition can be used for different educational activities relating to Lake Baikal: Ecological Festival – Water Day, Lake Baikal Day, Day of Environmental Protection, lectures, topic related field-trips.