Kassel Settlement Museum

About museum

The Kassel Settlement Museum is the youngest of the museums in the Nagaybaksky District. It was established at the initiative of local residents to preserve and develop the national culture and identity of the indigenous Nagaybak people. The house that houses the museum was built in the mid-19th century by local craftsmen. The core of the collection consists of items gathered for a school museum, numbering about 1,000. These include household items, decorative and applied arts, documents, and photographs. The museum has four halls that showcase the everyday life and furnishings of a Nagaybak kitchen and parlor, as well as decorative and applied artworks made by local craftswomen. In addition, the museum features exhibitions on the history of the settlement, the formation of the kolkhoz and sovkhoz, the pre-war and wartime years, and the major stages of the area's development. A unique feature of the museum is a functioning Russian stove.