Chuvash National Museum

The Central Chuvash Museum (now the Chuvash National Museum) was opened on February 12, 1921 by the resolution of the regional section for museums and protection of monuments of art and antiquity of the Chuvash Autonomous Region. It was organized by a group of intelligentsia in Cheboksar headed by Nikolai Pavlovich Neverov. In April 1993, by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic, it was transformed into the Chuvash National Museum.

Its funds include more than 202 thousand museum items, which are rich material for studying the history, culture, economy, life and nature of Chuvashia. The largest collection is the collection of archaeology, which was formed mainly in the 30-50s of the twentieth century. The ethnographic collection of the museum is the most complete collection of objects of material culture of the Chuvash people and other peoples living in Chuvashia. It is represented by ancient women's costumes of the riding, intermediate and lower groups of Chuvash, dating from the XVIII - early XX century.

Since 2007 and 2008, visitors are receiving permanent exhibitions “Nature and man”, “Ancient inhabitants of the Chuvash Territory according to archaeology and paleontology”, “History of the Chuvash people and the Chuvash Territory from the IX to the beginning of the XX century”, “Chuvashia in the XX century”.