Koryak District Museum of Local Lore

The museum was founded in 1932 as a folk museum, since 1969 it has been called local lore. The museum has more than 16,000 storage units. It has the following collections: archaeological, ethnographic, works of fine and applied art, photo and documentary materials on the history of the peoples of the district - Koryak, Itelmen, Evens and Chukchi. One of the elements of the exposition is the diorama “Nymylans of the Lesnovsk Coast” by artists A. Pirozhenko and V. Krupin. By preserving the ethnographic collection and popularizing this information, the museum seeks to participate in the cultural revival of the indigenous peoples of Kamchatka. The museum plans to continue research and educational work, as well as establish contacts with other local history and ethnographic museums of Russia, near and far abroad.