National Museum of the Komi Republic

About museum

The largest and oldest museum of the republic was founded on October 17, 1911. Over its century-long history the museum has formed a collection of more than 260,000 storage units, including unique examples of icon painting from the 16th–20th centuries, a numismatic collection from the 1st millennium BC to the 2nd millennium AD, a collection of objects of the material and spiritual culture of the Komi people, natural science collections, a rich photographic and documentary archive, collections of everyday life items from all layers of the region's population, archives and collections of prominent political and public figures of the republic and of the creative intelligentsia. The museum has 5 permanent exhibitions and an exhibition hall. The ethnography department is built around a fairy-tale theme developed from folklore materials, through which the rich spiritual and material culture of the Komi people is revealed via the relationship between man and woman, its main creators. The nature department presents the diversity of the fauna and flora of the tundra and taiga. Interactive exhibitions in the history department tell the story of the Komi region from ancient times to the end of the 20th century.