Chuvash National Museum

About museum

The Central Chuvash Museum (currently known as the Chuvash National Museum) was opened on February 12, 1921 by a resolution of the regional section for museums and the protection of monuments of art and antiquity of the Chuvash Autonomous Area. The organizer of the museum was a group of the intelligentsia of the city of Cheboksary led by Nikolai Pavlovich Neverov. In 1993 the museum was transformed into the Chuvash National Museum by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic. Its collections include more than 202,000 museum objects that provide rich material for the study of the history, culture, economy, everyday life and nature of Chuvashia. The core of the museum's collection is the archaeological collection formed in the 1930s–1950s. The ethnographic collection is the most comprehensive collection in the Chuvash Republic of items of the material culture of the Chuvash people and other peoples living in Chuvashia.