Ethnographic Museum Complex named after TD Shuvaev

The ethnographic museum complex is the successor of the city museum of local lore, which was created on a voluntary basis and opened on November 4, 1972 in a two-storey wooden building. The first director was Shuvaev T.M. In 1978, the museum became a branch of the Regional Museum of Local History. In 1992, the museum changed its status and became a municipal institution, the program of which provides not only for the preservation of the central importance of the local history museum, but also for the creation of new museums - the Museum of the History of Russian Life, the Ethnographic Park-Museum under the open air, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Salon. The museum tells about the history of our region, customs and mores of its indigenous population, nature and animal world. In the halls of the museum there are permanent expositions “Reindeer herder’s Residence”, “Journey to Ancient Ugra”, “Man and Nature”, “Nizhnevartovsk in the Mirror of KhMAO”. Children will be interested to see magnificently stuffed rare animals and birds, unique collections of archaeology, paleontology and geology, “visit” the reindeer herder’s camp. The museum also provides a variety of services: conducts survey and thematic excursion, both in the museum and around the city, lectures, quizzes, family games, creative meetings at the museum, scientific consultations, search for historical documents, etc.