Mikhail Nikolayevich Yantemir Literary and Ethnographic Museum

About museum

The museum named after the Mari scholar and ethnographer M. N. Yantemir was opened in 1994. It is located in a two-story house built in 1939. The museum's collections include over 5,500 items of ethnography, history and daily life, photographic materials, rare books, and works from the Kuzhersky Glass Factory of the early 20th century. There are more than 300 volumes of literary works by Morkinsky writers and poets. The museum has four halls with exhibitions created by the museum's founder G. M. Bekeshev. The ethnographic hall displays the traditional interior of a Mari peasant house from the late 19th century. The literary hall presents the history of the formation of the creative intelligentsia of the Mari people at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. The exhibition hall features a collection of paintings by well-known artists E. G. Yaranova, I. M. Yamberdova, and Z. F. Lavrentyeva. On the second floor there is an exhibition dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, as well as a model of a dugout, photographs of Heroes of the Soviet Union, and the orders and medals of war participants.