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Monument to Laboratory Mice

Monument to laboratory mice
Monument to laboratory mice in Novosibirsk, Russia. Sculptor Alexey Agrikolyansky

The Monument to laboratory mice for their services to science was installed in the square not far from the local Academic Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The bronze monument shows a mouse in a lab coat and glasses, knitting with needles the DNA double helix. The monument was opened on July 1, 2013, to the 120th anniversary of Novosibirsk. According to the Institute Director, Academician Nikolai Kolchanov, a monument symbolizes the gratitude of the humanity for the animal, for the use of mice to study the genes of animals, molecular and physical mechanisms of diseases, development of new drugs. Sculptor Alexey Agrikolyansky, who embodied the idea into life, admitted that to do this was not easy, because the mouse is not a human, and it was necessary create it with emotion, character, find a cross between a cartoon character and a real mouse, and keep anatomical parameters of it.

Monument to laboratory mice in Novosibirsk, Russia. Photo by By Irina Gelbukh
Monument to laboratory mice at the Academic Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. Photo by By Irina Gelbukh

The first stone of the monument was laid on June 1, 2012, in honor of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics. The image of the mouse was created by Novosibirsk artist Andrew Kharkevich, who made more than a dozen sketches. Among the different variants from the classic to stylized images of the animal, was selected a mouse, knitting the DNA strand. The sculpture was cast in bronze in the city of Tomsk, by master Maxim Petrov.

Monument to the Laboratory Mice

Alley with monument
Academic Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. Alley with the Monument to the Laboratory Mice. Photo by By Irina Gelbukh

Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix:

Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
Fabulous monument to a mouse
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
From a grateful humanity. Monument to laboratory mouse in Zadonsk, Lipetsk region
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
Helsinki Monument to archival wise mouse
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
Klaipeda Monument to a mouse. Rub nose, whispering desire in its ear
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
Minsk, Klumov street. Cat and mouse
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
Ramenskoye, Moscow region Rat Larissa
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
The city of Zarechny. Rat Monument
Some more monuments to mice, including DNA Helix
The old woman Shapoklyak and the rat Larissa (Khabarovsk)
DNA Helix. Established in 2008 in Novosibirsk, performed at the IV Symposium of Stone Sculpture, held in Novosibirsk in 2008. One of the most unusual sculpture in the history of symposiums
DNA Helix. Established in 2008 in Novosibirsk, performed at the IV Symposium of Stone Sculpture, held in Novosibirsk in 2008. One of the most unusual sculpture in the history of symposiums

sources:
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