Yamal District Museum

About museum

On August 27, 1991, the Yamal District Museum was established on the basis of a school museum collection. Over the years the museum has mounted several dozen exhibitions from its own holdings and traveling exhibitions from the collections of the I. S. Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Complex in Salekhard, and has published hundreds of articles in newspapers, journals and scientific proceedings. The museum's collections include rare books, black-and-white photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, archaeological, natural science, historical-domestic and ethnographic collections, including a collection of sacred objects of the Yamal Nenets. The museum houses very unique exhibits: documents related to P. P. Kruzenshtern's 1862 expedition to the shores of Yamal, archaeological collections from site monuments, an ethnographic collection of ritual items, stone, bronze and iron arrowheads, a copper-cast collection of icons, a bronze collection of women's jewelry, and books.