National Museum of the Republic of Komi

The largest and oldest museum of the republic was founded on October 17, 1911 on the basis of a collection of objects of ethnography, archaeology, paleontology and a small library. Its creator and first director was A.A. Sember – teacher, historian, ethnographer. In the 1920s, the work of the museum was closely connected with the activities of the Komi Region Research Society. Thanks to scientists D.T. Yanovich, V.P. Nalimov, A.Gren, A.S. Sidorov and others, a collection on the culture of the Komi-Zyrians was formed. On October 29, 1940, the Komi Regional Museum (since 1923) was transformed into the Republican Museum of Local Lore. Since 1994, the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the main museum institution of the republic, performing the functions of a methodological, cultural and educational center. The museum has the only collection of material, written and pictorial evidence in the republic, covering a significant layer in the history of the region, starting with the first archaeological monuments of the Paleolithic era (28-30 thousand BC), ending with sources on the political and socio-economic history of the early XXI century. Throughout the almost century history of the museum, a collection of more than 250 thousand items of storage was formed, including unique monuments of icon painting of the XVI-XX centuries, a collection of numismatics I thousand BC – II thousand AD, a collection of objects of material and spiritual culture of the Komi people, natural science collections, a rich photo documentary archive, collections of everyday life items of all layers of the region’s population of various chronological periods, archives and collections of outstanding political and public figures of the republic, creative intelligentsia. The museum collection is the basis for historical, ethnographic, archaeological, natural science, linguistic, cultural research. The structure of the museum includes departments: funds, history, nature, ethnography, the Literary Museum of I.A. Kuratov, the House-Museum of I.P. Morozov. The museum has permanent expositions: the department of history – “Komi Krai from ancient times to the middle of the twentieth century”, the department of ethnography – “Traditional culture of Komi in the rites of the life cycle of the late XIX – early XX centuries”, the Literary Museum of I.A. Kuratov – “Life and work of I.A. Kuratov”. The history of the discovery and study of poetic heritage, the House-Museum of I.P. Morozov “I.P. Morozov – the fate of man in the history of the republic”, as well as the permanent exhibition of the Department of Nature – “Natural Resources of the Republic of Komi”. The museum annually hosts more than 100 exhibitions from the museum and museums of other cities and regions. Currently, one of the priorities of the National Museum is participation in grant competitions. A number of projects aimed at improving research, exposition, exhibition, publishing and educational activities were supported by the Presidential Grant Fund (Tree of Life, Between the Lines). A thousand letters about war and peace. The Second World War in Letters), the J. Soros Foundation (exposition of the ethnography department “Once upon a time a couple”, the creation of an electronic version of the ethnographic exposition, the website of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the installation of the electronic accounting program for museum collections KAMIS), the Museum Department of Finland (Stefan Permsky). Unread Letters), M.A. Kastren Society (Finland) and the Ministry of Culture of Estonia (a number of expeditions aimed at studying the traditional culture of the Komi people). The winners of the grant competition “Changing Museum in a Changing World” of the V. Potanin Charitable Foundation were the projects of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Way of Stefan Permsky” (2006) and “Weaving Words” (2007) Every year the museum receives more than 100 thousand visitors. On the basis of the museum, theatrical classes and holidays on calendar rituals, studio classes, creative workshops, weekend clubs and various thematic events are held. Departments of the museum are located in buildings of civil architecture of the XIX-early XX centuries and specially built buildings: Department of History - a monument of history and architecture of the beginning.XX century. Department of Ethnography - the former trading house of merchants Debenev, the construction of the XIX century. Department of nature - the former trading house of merchants Kuzbozhev, the construction of the beginning.XX century. The Literary Museum of I.A. Kuratov is a residential house of merchant S.G. Sukhanov, the construction of the beginning. XIX century. I.P. Morozov Museum - reconstruction of the family home of the Morozov family from the village of Mezhador Sysolsky district of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Main excursions: Komi region from ancient times to the middle of the twentieth century. Traditional culture of the Komi people in the rites of the life cycle of K.XIX - early XX centuries. Natural resources of the Republic of Komi. The life and work of I.A. Kuratov. History of the discovery and study of poetic heritage. I.P. Morozov (1924-1987): the fate of man in the history of the republic. Educational services: - A cycle of museum events "From the Intercession of Autumn to Yegory of Spring" based on the calendar ritual and folklore of the Komi. - Environmental mornings. Behind Five Castles is a game based on Komi folklore. - Annual practice "Fundamentals of museum business" for students of SSUZ and universities of the city. - Annual Olympiads in local studies for schoolchildren of the city and the republic. Family rites program, which includes excursions and events with elements of theatricalization for employees of enterprises / institutions and their families. - Training seminars for directors and employees of municipal museums of the Komi Republic. Individual internships for employees of municipal museums of the republic. Local attractions: All departments of the museum are located in the historical part of the city. Nearby are: Stefanovskaya Square, Komi Republican Philharmonic, National Music and Drama Theater, National Gallery of the Republic of Kazakhstan, National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, S.M. Kirov Park, Finno-Ugric Cultural Center of the State University of the Republic of Kazakhstan. There is a souvenir shop near the museum. Tourist routes: Syktyvkar is a city of two centuries. Ust-Sysolska temples. Syktyvkar - Ust-Vyim - Syktyvkar. Syktyvkar - Ib - Syktyvkar. Syktyvkar - Nyvchim - Syktyvkar. Syktyvkar – Ulyanovsk monastery – Syktyvkar. Main officers: Director - Kotyleva Irina Nikolaevna, tel. (8212) 24-11-73. Deputy Director for Scientific Work – Bandura Svetlana Vladimirovna, (8212) 24-20-63. Deputy Director – Lebedeva Irina Valentinovna, tel. (8212) 24-54-25. Scientific Secretary – Sova Valentina Alekseevna, tel. (8212) 24-20-63. The main custodian is Kirichenko Marina Nikolaevna, tel. (8212) 20-03-23. Directorate phone: (8212) 24-11-73, fax (8212) 24-22-72 Address: 167000, Republic of Komi, Syktyvkar, str. Communist, 6. Opening and foundation dates: Founded on October 17, 1911. Budgetary status: Russian subject Organizational and legal form: Non-profit institution Classification of the organization: Historical, local history, literary Areas of organization: Exposition and exhibition -2522 m2 Fund storage - 507 m2 Number of staff: 112 of them are employees – 65 Average number of visitors per year: 105 - 107 thousand people The structure of the organization includes: Archive, scientific library The most valuable (unique) collections: Collection of handwritten and old printed books - 325 units. Collection of artistic casting of the Nevchim cast iron factory - 86 units. Collection of icons, copper casting and church utensils - 403 units. Collection of coins and paper banknotes – 5 489 units. Collection of orders and medals - 175 units. Collection of traditional clothing of the Komi people - 3,000 units. Collection of items of "animal style" - 71 units. Collection of wooden objects from the excavations of I and II Viss peatlands VII thousand BC - VIII century AD - 415 units. Collection of painted and carved spinning wheels - 203 units. Collection of photo and documentary sources on the history of the region – 24 937 units. Collection of porcelain, glass, ceramics - 1,200 units. Major exhibition projects: 2006. - Between the lines: World War II in letters 2006. – On the way of Stefan Permsky (photo exhibition following the results of the expedition of the winning project of the III grant competition of museum projects “Changing Museum in a Changing World”) of the V. Potanin Charitable Foundation 2006 – Memory of the Forgotten War (World War I: Russia and Komi Krai) 2007 – Under the shadow of the golden bird (State symbols of Russia and the Komi Republic) 2007. We are children of the terrible years of Russia (Gulag Children) 2008 – Stefan Permsky. Unread letters 2008 – Weaving words (exhibition of the winning project of the IV grant competition of museum projects “Changing Museum in a Changing World” of the V. Potanin Charitable Foundation) 2008 – Icon in the traditions of Orthodox Komi holidays 2009. - Ust Sysolsk. Provincial city world 2009: The Memory Keepers. History of the Republic in the collections of municipal museums of RK 2009. - Finno-Ugric toy Visiting and exchange exhibitions: On the edge of Oikumena. Traditional culture of Komi-Zyrians (traditional Komi clothing, household items, ethnographic photography) A great contemporary of the Battle of Kulikovo. Stefan of Perm (archaeology, icons, books, reproduction of miniatures, texts) Heraldry of the Komi Land (photo exhibition) Beauty and pride of the Zyryansk region (photo exhibition on the history of Ust-Sysolsk-Syktyvkar) Green Bank (photo exhibition on the history of the S.M. Kirov Park of Culture and Recreation in Syktyvkar) Persons of the Republic (graphic works of students of Syktyvkar State University) 400 years of the Sukhanov family (photo exhibition) Fate under the sign "OST" (photo and documentary material about the fate of prisoners of war and Ostarbeiters during the Second World War) Unchildish secrets of a children's book. To the 85th anniversary of the Komi book publishing house (books, photos and documentary material) In Search of Truth (photo exhibition about the fate of P.A. Sorokin) Fairy tales of Karelia. Creativity of Honored Artist of the Karelian ASSR A.V. Semyashkin (painting) Decorative and applied art of Bulgaria (weaving, ceramics, copper utensils, furniture, folk costume) The samovar is boiling, not to be bored. Tradition of tea drinking in the Komi culture (collection of samovars from the NMRK funds) Publications of the National Museum of RK: Komi folk art. Album. I.O. Vaskul, V.P. Zenovskaya, I.M. Utkina. 1992. Museums and local history. Proceedings of the National Museum of the Komi Republic. 1-5 / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Syktyvkar, 1997-2007. Collection of documents of participants of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Catalog / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. E.M. Savelyev. Syktyvkar, 2004. The capital, beauty and pride of the Zyryansk region (Photo collection). National Museum of the Republic of Komi. R.I. Larukov, I.V. Lebedev. Syktyvkar, 2005. XX century: Man in the Age. The Age in Man: Materials of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference (Syktyvkar, November 14-15, 2005) / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Syktyvkar, 2006. ART. Syktyvkar, 2006, No. 3 (the issue is dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan). Memory of Equal-to-the-Apostles Stephen: to the 610th anniversary of St. Stephen of Perm: materials of the extended meeting of the Academic Council of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Syktyvkar, 2006. Writers of the Comey Land. Set of photos / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. D.G. Holopov, V.V. Byzov. Syktyvkar, 2006. Rarities. 1: Monuments of the history of writing of the Komi land from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi (Passcard Package) / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. I.Y. Moiseyev. Syktyvkar, 2006. Rarities. Issue 2: Coins. Treasures. Collections. Numismatic Monuments: History and Modernity (Package of Postcards) / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. S.W. Bandura. Syktyvkar, 2007. Rarities. Issue 3: Art casting of Nyvchim Iron Foundry. (Set of postcards) / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. V.S.Zelensky, Yu.A.Krasheninnikova, S.V. Bandura. Syktyvkar, 2007. V.B. Lipin. Traditional material culture of Komi / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Syktyvkar, 2008. I.M. Utkin. Komi spinners (Zyryan): from the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Komi / National Museum of the Republic of Komi. Syktyvkar, 2009. Pasköm. Comey's folk costume. CD-ROM / National Museum of the Republic of Komi; Company " Multimedia Project". Syktyvkar, 2007. St. Stefan of Perm. The way through the centuries. CD-ROM /National Museum of the Komi Republic; Company "Multimedia project". Hand. project I.N. Kotylev. Syktyvkar, 2008. V.A. Savin. Legacy. CD-ROM. /National Museum of the Republic of Komi; Company "Multimedia project". Syktyvkar, 2008. I.A. Kuratov. Fate. Poetry. Legacy. CD-ROM / National Museum of the Republic of Komi; Company " Multimedia Project". Syktyvkar, 2009.