Perm Regional Museum, Regional history museum in Perm, Russia
The Perm Regional Museum is a history and local studies museum in the city of Perm, in the Ural region of Russia, housed in an early 20th-century building. It holds archaeological finds, natural history specimens, folk art, and regional artwork covering a broad span of time from prehistoric periods to the modern era.
The museum was founded in 1890, at a time when interest in regional history was growing among local scholars and officials across the Russian Empire. Through the 20th century it expanded its collections and settled into a permanent building in the city center.
The museum displays clothing, tools, and objects from the daily life of communities across the Ural region. Among the most noticed pieces are items from indigenous groups, each carrying its own visual language and craft tradition.
The museum sits in central Perm and is easy to reach on foot from the Kama riverbank. It is worth setting aside a good part of a morning or afternoon, since the collections spread across several floors and cover very different subjects.
Among the museum's holdings is one of the largest collections of Perm Animal Style objects, small metal figures made by Ural peoples over 1,000 years ago. These pieces show animals in unusual hybrid forms and are largely unknown outside Russia.
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