Yamal Local History Museum

About museum

On August 27, 1991 the Yamal District Museum was founded, built on the basis of a school museum collection. Over the years the museum has successfully held many exhibitions from its collections, as well as traveling exhibitions from the collections of the I. S. Shemanovsky Interregional Museum and Exhibition Complex in Salekhard. Numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, as well as academic collections, archaeological and ethnographic expeditions, attest to the museum's activity. As a result of archaeological excavations in the Yamal district the museum expanded its collections with objects made of ceramics, bronze, iron, copper, bone and stone dating from the 12th-17th centuries. Some of these items are not only of historical value but also of considerable artistic value (especially bronze art with zoomorphic decoration: plaques, pendants, women's bracelets, ornaments). Some items were donated to the museum by private individuals as accidental archaeological finds in the Yamal tundra.