Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I.S. Shemanovsky

In 1906, the rector of the Obdor Orthodox Mission, hegumen Irinarch (in the world - Ivan Semenovich Shemanovsky), at the library of the brotherhood of St. Guria, opened a repository of collections on the ethnography of foreigners of the Tobolsk North. In 1996, the District Museum of Local History was named after its founder, I.S. Shemanovsky.

Modern Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I.S. Shemanovsky, established in 2002, is an institution of culture of a new type, combining the preservation of traditions, study and preservation of historical and cultural heritage and innovative approaches to their popularization. Its assets include exhibition areas and storage facilities, a scientific library with more than 13,000 books and rare manuscripts, a museum-apartment of the Nenets writer Leonid Laptsuy.

Funds of the museum are more than 60 thousand paleontological, archaeological, historical and ethnographic exhibits, works of modern painting and applied art, collection of minerals and fauna of the north of Western Siberia. The unique exhibits of the museum are the archaeological collection. Luba's mammoth remains.

The main activities of the IEC are custodian, research, educational, representative, cultural and educational, scientific and methodological, publishing.