Museum of Russian Everyday Life, Nizhnevartovsk

About museum

The Museum of Russian Everyday Life has become one of the most interesting and significant museums in Nizhnevartovsk. It is a historical and everyday-life complex that allows visitors to immerse themselves in the history of the village of Nizhnevartovskoye from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. The idea to create the museum was supported by long-time city residents, the administration, and staff of the local history museum. The museum opened on March 10, 2003. The museum grounds feature a peasant homestead with agricultural outbuildings, as well as a two-story wooden house where the interiors of a peasant izba, rooms of merchants, and rooms from the Soviet period of the 1930s–1950s have been recreated. The museum's collections include more than 700 items of Russian material culture, which were gathered by staff during ethnographic expeditions to the villages and hamlets of the Nizhnevartovsk district, the Tyumen region, and the Kurgan region. At the museum visitors can always learn a great deal about the lives of Russians in the past, view objects of Russian material culture, and immerse themselves in the atmosphere of bygone times.