Kamchatka Regional United Museum (village of Mil'kovo)

About museum

In 1976 the Museum of Kamchatka was founded to preserve the heritage of the island's indigenous inhabitants and the history of the land's conquest by Russian explorers. It collects, studies, preserves and publishes material monuments of Kamchatka's history and culture, as well as natural objects. The museum exhibits works of painting, graphic art, sculpture, items of decorative and applied arts and works by Kamchatka artists and craftsmen. The museum also displays archaeological finds and objects of the material culture of the ancient Itelmens. The ethnographic collection contains items of the material and spiritual culture of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The collection of documents and photographs provides an insight into life in Kamchatka. The museum's holdings include the manuscript of the poet G. G. Porotov titled Kolkhoz Bezbozhnik, the original of the second edition of S. P. Krasheninnikov's Description of the Land of Kamchatka, and its 1949 edition.