Minusinsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after N. M. Martyanov
About museum
The N. M. Martyanov Museum in Minusinsk was founded in June 1877 by the scientist-botanist Nikolai Mikhailovich Martyanov. It was the first museum in Siberia and the Far East to have a program and a charter. In the 19th century it was called "the Pearl of Siberia." The museum houses more than 200,000 items of natural and historical-cultural heritage of the peoples of the Upper and Middle Yenisei. It also has a library of 136,000 publications from the 17th–20th centuries. Today the Minusinsk Museum is a cultural and scientific-educational center of the south of Krasnoyarsk Krai. In 2019 it received more than 241,000 visitors and held over 40 exhibitions. In 2017 the museum celebrated its 140th anniversary!