Exhibition "Bronze 'Guardians' from the Banks of Siberian Rivers"

About exhibition

At the center of the exhibition are examples of figurative bronze casting from Siberia. These are images of humans, bears, wolverines, hares, swans, ducks, pike and snakes embodied in ancient metal by the craftsmen of the past. Ancient religions and many peoples often pictured deities and spirits in animal form. The display features unique Bronze Age artifacts of the Seima-Turbino type from the museum's collections — bronze-cast spearheads and celts (chance finds from the vicinity of the village of Okunevo, Muromtsevsky District, Omsk Region). The collection is supplemented by exhibits from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of F. M. Dostoevsky Omsk State University — samples of ceramic vessels and stone industry implements of that period. A striking highlight of the exhibition is the work of Omsk artists Yevgeny Dorokhov and Natalya Karnaushenko, and Novosibirsk artist Eduard Loginov. Also on display are items from the personal archive of the famous Omsk scholar and archaeologist Vladimir Matyushchenko.