National Museum of the Republic of Komi

The National Museum of the Komi Republic in Syktyvkar is the largest and oldest museum of the republic. It was founded on October 17, 1911. The museum’s collection is based on a small collection of items of ethnography, archaeology, paleontology and a small library of A. A. Zember. He was the creator and first director, being a history teacher and ethnographer in everyday life.

He worked closely with the members of the Society for the Study of the Komi Territory, which consisted of scientists D.T. Yanovich, V.P. Nalimov, A.Gren and A.S. Sidorov, who helped to form the first museum collections on the culture of the Komi-Zyrians.

Today, the National Museum has the only collection of material, written and pictorial evidence in the republic, covering the centuries-old period of the history of the region. The museum funds store archaeological monuments of the Paleolithic era found on the territory of the republic. In addition, for several decades, the museum collected its extensive collection of iconography of the XVI - XX centuries.