Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve 'Valley of the Kings'

About museum

From 1998 to 2003 a joint archaeological expedition of the German Archaeological Institute and the State Hermitage was conducted under the leadership of Professor Hermann Parzinger, Dr. Anatoly Nagler, and Konstantin Chugunov. During this expedition one of the largest Scythian-period kurgans in Piy-Khem kozhuun in the Valley of the Kings in the Republic of Tuva was investigated. The diameter of the structure reached up to 80 meters, and the height was 2 meters. At the kurgan site all the principal structural elements of the burial-commemorative complex were restored and reconstructed. To preserve all the main elements of the kurgan, stone slabs were produced for it, which makes the tours more illustrative. In 2004 the state institution 'Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve Valley of the Kings' was established, and in 2011, through reorganization, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the State Budgetary Institution 'National Museum of the Republic of Tuva'.