Yamalsky District Museum

About museum

On August 27, 1991, the Yamalsky District Museum was founded based on the collection of a school museum. Over the years the museum has mounted several dozen exhibitions from its own collections and travelling exhibitions from the collections of the I. S. Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex in Salekhard, and has published hundreds of articles in newspapers, magazines and scientific collections. The museum's holdings include rare books, black-and-white photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, archaeological, natural science, historical everyday-life and ethnographic collections, including a collection of ritual items of the Yamal Nenets. The museum displays unique exhibits: documents related to P. P. Kruzenshtern's 1862 expedition of the schooner "Ermak" to the Kara Sea and the shores of Yamal; archaeological collections from local monuments; an ethnographic collection of ritual items; stone, bronze and iron arrowheads; a copper-cast icon collection; a bronze collection of women's jewelry; and books.