State National Museum of Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Okrug

The State National Museum of the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Okrug has been working continuously since 01.06.1946. The museum employs four employees and three researchers. The collection of the museum includes more than six thousand one hundred and sixty items, two thousand six hundred and twenty items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. In 1944, the Ust-Ordyn District Museum of Local Lore was established, which in 1995 acquired the status of the State National Museum. The museum exposition displays history, culture, religion from ancient times to the present. On the territory of the museum there is an open-air complex "Buryat Peasant Manor" where ethnographic holidays are held, which are very successful among foreign tourists. The State National Museum of the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Okrug operates in the form of a non-profit institution with specialization in the field of local history, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between participants. The State National Museum of the Ust-Ordyn Buryat Autonomous Okrug is an institution of federal subordination (state, national, republican). The main activities of the museum: cultural and research.