The Perm Regional Museum fumigates its premises twice a year, in accordance with the decree from the culture ministry of the USSR on the adoption of regulations for storing and safeguarding museum artifacts.

While it carefully preserves its collections of insects that inhabit the region, those that live inside the museum are considered pests, meant to be gotten rid of.

In 2018, at Axel Straschnoy’s request, the museum carefully collected the killed insects, classified them, placed them in boxes and created the first collection dedicated to its inhabitants, totalling 199 specimens.

The Permian Collection documents this project through three texts framing the project from an artistic and a natural history point of view and 33 plates presenting the insects in the collection.