Narym Museum of Political Exile

About museum

In 1938 a museum named after I. V. Stalin was established on the territory of the Narym region. In 1991, after a new department dedicated to political repressions, the camp system and special commandants was added, it was renamed the 'Narym Museum of Political Exile.' The site includes memorial buildings, including the Narym cell and the Alekseyev house, where I. V. Stalin lived in 1912. In 2003 a 'Corner of Selkup Antiquities' was opened. The museum's collections contain materials that allow a comprehensive understanding of the history of political repressions in the Narym region, including personal belongings, documents and photographs of participants in the Decembrist uprising of 1825, revolutionaries of 1905–1917, Soviet citizens repressed in 1930–1950, and other persecuted people in the USSR.