Yar Historical and Local Lore Museum

Yar historical and local lore museum receives visitors from the eighth of August one thousand nine hundred ninety-eighth year. The museum employs four employees and two researchers. The collection of the museum includes more than three thousand hundred and ninety items, one thousand eight hundred items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. Yar Historical and Local Lore Museum was opened in 1998. The opening of the museum was timed to two significant dates in the history of the Yarsky district of the Udmurt Republic: the 100th anniversary of the Yar station and the 60th anniversary of the Yar village (district center). The expositions and funds of the museum contain more than 3000 exhibits. Visitors can see permanent expositions on the history of the railway in Poland. Yar, reflected in the family dynasties of railway workers, in the organizations serving the railway, in the history of the Yar station station. The ethnographic corner presented in the museum acquaints visitors with various traditions, folk art and craft, life of the northern Udmurts and Besermians living in the Yar district. In addition, the museum has a separate hall for an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of fellow countrymen Flor Vasiliev and Mikhail Fedotov. The current exhibition "Heroes of Our Names" reflects the heroic feats of the residents of the Yarsky District during the Civil War. In addition to the listed expositions, the museum organizes and conducts tourist routes in the Yarsky district, the Yar Historical and Local Lore Museum 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. Yar Historical and Local Lore Museum is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.