Mahketa Local History Museum

The modern museum was started by the local history museum of the school of Mahketa village of Vedensky district, founded in 1962. The basis of the funds was mail found by a local resident during plowing on the garden plot, as well as other old things that were brought by high school students.

In 2011, the director of the museum was appointed a resident of the village of Makhkety, Candidate of Historical Sciences, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR and the Russian Federation Nunuev Said-Khamzat. With personal funds, he built a three-storey museum building with a battle tower in the medieval architectural style in the center of the village.

The museum has 3 large and 3 small halls. The first large hall hosts exhibits until the twentieth century. Here are collections of archaeological finds, medieval dishes and fragments of weapons. Among the unique exhibits is a natural stone axe, the age of which scientists have determined 40 thousand years (stone age).

In the second large hall there are objects of everyday life and culture, testifying to the unity of culture and life of the peoples of Russia. There are stands that tell about the period of the Civil War, collectivization, collective farm production. Separate stands are dedicated to the participants of the Great Patriotic War, eminent immigrants from the village.

There are permanent exhibitions, including an exhibition of things brought from deportation; an exhibition of dishes and household appliances of the Soviet era, an exhibition of blacksmith products, an exhibition of local history literature, an exhibition of works by local writers and poets.