It was formally opened in 2000 near Sejatel railway station (станцией Сеятель), at the Novosibirsk–Berdsk line and is the second largest transport museum in Russia after the Central Railway Museum in St Petersburg.

After retiring in 1984, he started to work on the collection of the museum for several years, storing the relevant exhibits on the circular track of the All-Russian Railway Research Institute.

Preparatory work lasted until 2000, when the museum was formally inaugurated on 4 August 2000 during the celebrations of the Railway Day.

In addition, some locomotives from the United States, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are exhibited.

[1] The museum has also an educational obligation: It organises seminars and conferences, which cover a wide variety of railway related topics.