Khakass National Museum of Local Lore named after L.R. Kyzlasov

About museum

The museum was founded in 1931. Today it contains over 140,000 exhibits. The museum's collections include rare stone, bronze and iron artifacts, jewelry and weapons from various periods, as well as bronze objects in the Scytho-Siberian animal style, funerary masks and ceramic vessels. Particularly notable are the collections of rock paintings, stone sculptures, stelae and the 'Idols of the Yenisei', dated to the Bronze Age. In 2007 the museum was granted national status and was named after the prominent archaeologist Leonid Romanovich Kyzlasov. It became the leading methodological center for the development and improvement of museum work in Khakassia. The museum's area is 28,129 sq. m. The building has a circular form set within a square plot; the complex's diameter is 130 m. It houses exhibitions, administrative offices, a children's museum center, storage facilities, a 600-seat concert hall and a 150-seat conference hall. Temporary exhibitions and mass events are held in the building.