There are 6 exhibition complexes in the museum, where the traditional culture and life of the peoples inhabiting Transbaikalie (Evenk, Soyot, Transbaikalian and Pre-Baikal Buryats, Russian old-timers, Cossacks, Old Believers), as well as the archaeological complex, displaying unique archaeological monuments (the home of the Huns, tent and plate graves, burial mounds - hereseurs, and others), and the city complex "Old Verkhneudinsk", in which the immovable monuments of the city of Ulan-Ude XIX - early XX centuries are concentrated, with a typical interior recreated.