# The Monument to the Laboratory Mouse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monument-to-the-laboratory-mouse/821788 "2018-09-23T17:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monument-to-the-laboratory-mouse/821788/1 "2018-09-23T17:57:00Z")
Do you think of all those millions of rodents that have suffered and died for us? [They are remembered](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse). > [@Wikipedia](#): > > The Monument to the laboratory mouse is a sculpture in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia. It is located in a park in front of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and was completed on July 1, 2013, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of the founding of the city. > > According to Nikolai Kolchanov, the director of the institute, the monument commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing of diseases. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-monument-to-the-laboratory-mouse/821788/2 "2018-09-23T19:20:22Z")
I work with lab mice, and that is one of my favorite sculptures in the world (despite the fact that it looks like the sculptor has never once in his life seen an actual mouse). The knit DNA helix slays me.