Editing Irkutsk (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Exaltation of the Cross Church, Irkutsk, Russia.jpg|thumb|The Church of the Cross (1747–60) is a pinnacle of the [[Siberian Baroque]] architecture]]

Irkutsk<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/siberia/irkutsk |title=Irkutsk – Lonely Planet Travel and Information Guide |publisher=Lonelyplanet.com |access-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-date=December 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231202842/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/siberia/irkutsk |url-status=live }}</ref> is a point of interest for tourists with its numerous museums and old architecture. The [[Taltsy Museum]] ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Тальцы|Тальцы]]}}), located on the Angara {{convert|47|km|sp=us}} south of Irkutsk, is an open-air museum of Siberian [[vernacular architecture|traditional architecture]]. Numerous old wooden buildings from villages in the Angara valley, which have been flooded after the construction of the [[Bratsk Dam]] and [[Ust-Ilimsk Dam]], have been transported to the museum and reassembled there. One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ''ostrog'' (fortress) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ''ostrog'' in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the  ''ostrog'' and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.<ref>[http://babr.ru/?pt=news&event=v1&IDE=3423 В «Тальцах» завершается реконструкция южной стены Илимского острога] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214032721/http://babr.ru/?pt=news |date=February 14, 2009 }} (Re-creation of the southern wall of the Ilimsk ''ostrog'' in the Taltsy Museum is approaching its completion) {{in lang|ru }}</ref>

The [[Botanic Garden of the Irkutsk State University]] known as the "Irkutsk Botanic Garden" is the only [[botanic garden]] as a living [[museum]] in Irkutsk Oblast and Baikalian [[Siberia]]. Its mission is "to protect and enrich the flora of the Lake Baikal area and the world for people through public education, collection, propagation, research, and conservation of plants". The garden is mainly an educational and scientific tool for the [[Irkutsk State University]] and maintains the largest plant collection of living plants in Eastern [[Siberia]] (more than 5,000 plant taxa), a herbarium, and a seed bank. It occupies {{convert|27|ha|acre}} within Irkutsk city, {{convert|70|km|0|abbr=on}} west of Lake Baikal. It has a federal status of especially protected land and a nature memorial of Irkutsk.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}