Namsky Historical and Ethnographic Museum named after P. I. Sivtsev

About museum

The Namsky Museum was established in 1967, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, at the initiative of the Council of the Club of Revolutionary, Combat and Labor Glory and with the support of the chairman of the district executive committee, Danil Sofronovich Protopopov. The founder of the museum (and later its director) was the teacher Pyotr Innokentyevich Sivtsev. One of the important components of its activities are annual expeditions in which museum staff and local historians participate. In the hall with the exhibition 'The Great Patriotic War' one wall is dedicated to the diorama 'The Battle for the City of Rzhev'. The foreground is object-based; authentic materials are used here: weapons and ammunition from the wartime period. The collections contain items made of wood and birch bark — round Yakut tables on three legs, stools made from dwarf willow (talnik), agricultural implements, hand mills with wooden and stone millstones, grain mortars, muzzles for calves, bows, saddles, and household items. The museum's ethnographic material is so diverse that it can be used to study the culture and daily life of the Yakut people.