Museum of History and Ethnography of Yugorsk

About museum

1999 was the founding year of the City Museum, which opened on January 12, 2001 together with the first permanent exhibition 'Yugorsk. From Legend to a Point on the Map', which displayed the museum's archaeological and ethnographic collections. In 2002 the open-air museum 'Suevat Paul' was opened, where a replica of an ancient settlement from the left bank of the Lower Ob was recreated, consisting of a residential house, sacred sumyakh, household labazes (raised storehouses), a summer kitchen, a bread oven, dog kennels, reindeer corrals and hunting traps. In 2005 the two museums were merged into the Museum of History and Ethnography, where in 2007 the permanent exhibition 'Lines of Fate — Crossing Point' was opened. It presented archaeological and ethnographic collections, the region's history and the history of the city of Yugorsk. Also exhibited were objects of labor and everyday life from the 1960s–1990s, photographs and documents of the city's residents, as well as personal belongings.