Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore, Regional history museum in Novosibirsk, Russia.
The Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore is a regional museum that preserves and displays collections about the area's history, nature, and archaeology across several buildings throughout the city. The exhibition includes thousands of objects from different periods, including fossils, old coins, and handcrafted items.
Founded on 3 August 1920 as the Central People's Museum of Novonikolaevsk, with Vladimir Anzimirov as its first director. It took its present name in 1937 and was closed during the Second World War, reopening in 1947. In 1985 it received the former City Trade Chamber, built by Andrey Kryachkov in 1910; the first exhibition there opened on 5 November 1987.
The museum's name comes from the Russian word for local lore, and its collections cover fourteen Siberian peoples, including Altaians, Shors, Tuvans, Yakuts, Evenks, Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Nganasans, Kets and Tofalars. Displays of jewellery, sacred objects, tools, weapons and clothing span the Palaeolithic to the late Middle Ages. Weekly concerts draw on the museum's musical collection.
The museum spans multiple buildings, so plan enough time to see everything and move between locations. It helps to check in advance which departments are in which buildings to use your time wisely.
The complete mammoth skeleton on display was found in 1940 near the village of Vakhrushevo in Kochenyovsky District, with museum staff taking part in its excavation and recovery. After reconstruction it was exhibited after the war and became one of the museum's most valued specimens.
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