Regional Historical, Cultural and Environmental Center of Megion

The museum was founded in 1992. Ecocenter collects, studies, stores and uses monuments of nature, culture and history of the peoples of the region for scientific, educational and educational purposes.

The museum contains ethnographic collections on the culture of the indigenous peoples of Western Siberia, as well as Russians, Tatars, etc., a taxidermic collection of wildlife of the Middle Ob region, a collection of icons, antique and second-hand books, numismatics and bonistics. Collections of paintings by V.A. Igoshev, G.S. Raishev, A.F. Mukhametova, P.F. Bredyuk.

The most valuable collections are:

headdress of a shaman with objects of worship of the Vakhov group of Khanty;

• collection of icons of the middle of XIX - XX beginning of centuries;

Wedding Russian costume of the Belgorod region of the late XIX with a dense carpet geometric ornament on the sleeves of the shirt.

Unique exhibits of the museum:

- ceremonial Mansi veils from the Northern Sosva of the late XIX century;

- Female bone decoration of the Siberian Tatars "Chulpy" with silver coins and carnelian oval jewelry in silver frame;

Rainbows and fabrics, skillfully decorated with ornament. The pattern is painted from a mixture of deer blood with a decoction of larch and is rounded with a flagellum from the white neck hair of the deer and stitched with the finest tendon thread.