Bianca V.V. Museum of Local Lore

The Bisky Museum of Local Lore is the first People’s Museum of Siberia, opened on April 14, 1920. At the origins of its creation were V.V. Bianki, sculptor V.A. Sengalevich, archaeologist S.M. Sergeev, who discovered and studied Srostinsk culture for 12 years, M.F. Rosen - the discoverer of Altai gold, entomologist B.F. Belyshev - the first to confirm the theory of continental drift on practical material. Today, the museum has 18 halls of permanent exhibitions, more than 25 exhibitions annually, more than 60 thousand visitors, 43 dedicated employees.

In the collections of the museum, the second largest in the region, there are more than 140 thousand historical artifacts and 20 thousand books, of which ~ 3000 volumes are rare. The earliest date from the XVII century. In the history department, you can see a sarcophagus, a cauldron, weapons from Scythian mounds, objects of worship of Altai shamans; the original art of ancient artistic casting of cast iron, Buddhist sculpture; collections of watches and samovars; unique samples of cold and firearms, including infantry flint gun of the sample of 1808, with the engraving “Tsar Alexander I deigned to forge this rifle barrel at the Izhevsk factory on October 5-24.”

All epochs, all peoples have left their material trace in the collections of the museum, in its expositions. The archaeology fund is more than 70,000 units. The best collection of wooden carvings in Siberia.

A unique collection of Altai petroglyphs has been formed, numbering more than 300 paintings of different eras, plots, various styles and techniques.

The department "Museum of the Chui tract" presents all climatic zones of the Altai, rare species of animals, birds, plants. The tract itself is represented from the pack trail to the modern M-52 highway, from Chui merchants to famous people whose life and work are closely related to the path (Obruchev and Potanin, Roerich and Sapozhnikov, Shukshin and Evdokimov, Shishkov).