Chuvash Embroidery Museum

About museum

The building of the Chuvash Embroidery Museum was built in 1915 to a design by the well-known Kazan architect K. S. Oleshkiyevich and was entered into the Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of the Peoples of the Russian Federation as a monument of regional significance. In 1930 the building was transferred to the Pedagogical Institute in Cheboksary, where it remained until 1939. In 2015 the Chuvash Embroidery Museum was opened here. The exhibition presents visitors with a rich collection of embroidery from the 18th–21st centuries. In the museum you can see and feel the atmosphere of traditional Chuvash crafts: kepe shirts, headwraps (surbans and masmaks), hip ornaments (yargychi and sary), and bridal coverlets (pergenchek). You can also see an embroidered map of the Chuvash ASSR created for the All‑Russian Agricultural Exhibition of 1937 by embroiderers of the Algeshevskaya factory 'Paha Tere' under the direction of the artist E. I. Yefremova. The Chuvash Embroidery Museum is a monument to the history and culture of the early 20th century.