Minusinsky Regional Museum of Local Lore named after N. M. Martyanov

It is the first museum in Siberia and the Far East with a program and charter. Later, in the likeness of the Minusinsk Museum, a museum was created in Yeniseysk. Nerchinsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk and other cities of the Siberian region.

The Martyanov Museum brought fame to the small provincial Siberian city of Minusinsk. “The city’s only attraction is a museum,” Stark wrote in 1903.
In the press of the XIX century Minusinsky Museum called – “Pearl of Siberia”, “Miracle of Siberia”.

The museum collection relating to the nature and historical and cultural heritage of the peoples inhabiting the territory of the Upper and Middle Yenisei (now it is the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Khakassia and Tuva) has more than 180 thousand items.

The museum took part in Russian and foreign exhibitions – Yekaterinburg (1887 – silver medal), Florence (1885), Chicago (1893), Nizhny Novgorod (1896), Paris (1900 – diploma and silver medal), Hungary (1994), Korea (1995), Moscow (2000).
In 2008 in the III International Open Competition "Museum of the Year". Eurasia - 2008" (Yekaterinburg) in the main nomination "Municipal City Museum - 2008" Museum named after N.M. Martyanov" won a gold medal and the title "Museum of Eurasia-2008".

The unique scientific library of the museum is 135 years old in 2013. The library's collection consists of more than 120 thousand publications, magazines and newspapers of the XIX-XX centuries - "Eastern Siberia", "Siberia", the newspaper "Yenisei Provincial Gazette" (1875-1893), the magazines "Siberian Observer" (1902-1905), "Vestnik of Europe" (1870-1917), "Russian Wealth" (1880-1918), "Yenisei Diocesan Gazette" (1884-1919), "Russian Antiquities" (1870-1993), "Russian thought" (1870-1981), "Russian - 1893) - 18.19."

Minusinsky Museum takes part in the preparation and publication of scientific, encyclopedic publications: "Encyclopedia of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.South" (2008), "Illustrated Ethnography of Tuva" (2010), collections of reports and reports "Martyanovsk Regional Studies Readings" (7 vol.).

The museum is the organizer and initiator of various projects at the city and interregional levels: the annual Martyanov Regional Lore Readings (since 1999), the Museum Assembly of Siberian Museums (2012), the annual December Ball “Thanksgiving”.

Since 1994, the Minusinsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after N. M. Martyanov has been publishing the newspaper “Minusinsky Krai” (Appendix Minusinskaya Gas). "The power of labor." The newspaper is distributed free of charge in 7 southern districts of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The newspaper covers various topics - local history, history, culture. The authors of the articles are museum staff.

Today Minusinsky Museum is a cultural, scientific and educational south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The museum annually receives more than 200 thousand visitors (2011 – 256 thousand visitors) and annually creates more than 40 new exhibitions.

Year of foundation - 1877

Form of ownership - municipal

The number of employees is 93.

Museum Fund (as of 1.01.2012) - 189 thousand units.

Library fund (as of 1.01.2012) - 127 thousand units.

The number of visitors (2011) – 256 thousand people.