Kolyvan Museum of the History of Stone Cutting in Altai

The museum operates in the building of the drawing school (1876), which worked at the grinding factory and trained qualified personnel for it. In the 80s of the twentieth century, there was a museum room at the jewelry workshop of the factory, and after its closure, the museum began its work.

The museum presents a collection of stones from the Altai bowels, samples of processed stones. The main part of the exposition is devoted to the history of the Kolyvan grinding factory, the art of stone processing and the “Queen of Vases”. In the halls of the museum there are objects of Kolyvan residents (pottery, hand mill, clothes, photographs), products of Kolyvan stone cutters (cameo of 1839, mosaic panels, vases, bowls, a copy of "Queens of Vases" 1:10), there is a unique collection of drawings of students of the drawing class of Kolyvan Private School, award medals from international exhibitions in 1851 and 1862.