Iskitim City Historical and Art Museum

The Iskitimsk City Historical and Art Museum receives guests from the fourth of November one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven. The collection of the museum includes more than nineteen thousand eight hundred items, seventeen thousand two hundred items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The Iskitim City Historical and Art Museum was opened to visitors by the decision of the Iskitim City Administration on November 4, 1977. Initially, the museum was formed in two directions and is complex, consists of two departments: historical and artistic. The museum holds 24 collections, more than 19 thousand exhibits. The oldest are the exhibits of paleontological and archaeological collections. The most modern materials testify to the participation of Iskitimians in the Chechen wars. On March 1, 1981, a literary and art hall dedicated to V.M. Shukshin was opened, where photos, letters, publications of the writer’s works, photo reports from Shukshin readings, landscapes and portraits belonging to the brush of the Siberian artist I.P. Popov, second cousin of V. Shukshin were presented. The museum has a large amount of material, accumulated experience in organizing exhibitions, in many other areas of activity; there are many traditions: Decades of military glory, Days of Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinist Repressions, Shukshin Readings, a contest of readers dedicated to the memory of V. Shukshin, the Iskitim Art Exhibition, exhibitions of decorative and applied art, educational programs for children, etc. On June 1, 2006 a new exhibition "Siberian Antiquities" was opened in the museum. Every year the museum opens about 50 different exhibitions. The main tasks of the museum: the formation of museum collections testifying to the history of Iskitim and the Iskitim district, the preservation, study and development of the historical and cultural heritage of the native region Iskitimsk City Historical and Art Museum operates in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main purpose of its activities the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit between participants. Iskitimsk City Historical and Art Museum is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.