Valuysky Historical and Art Museum

About museum

Valuysky Historical and Art Museum was founded in 1964 by the People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts, laureate of the Toktogul Prize of the Kyrgyz SSR, and native of Valuyki, Alexander Illarionovich Ignatiev. The museum building is an architectural monument of regional significance, built in 1913 by the Valuysky zemstvo for the Higher Primary School to the design of the architect of the Valuysky zemstvo board, Alexey Stepanovich Kunichev. The museum is divided into two parts: "Soviet Fine Art" and "History of the Valuysky Region from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century." The local history exhibition presents museum items that illustrate stages of the region's development: documents, photographs, archaeological finds, household and ethnographic items, church utensils, numismatics of the 18th–20th centuries, as well as personal belongings of notable fellow countrymen. The art department showcases the works of the museum's founder A. I. Ignatiev.