Yamal District Museum

Yamal District Museum was founded on August 27, 1991 on the basis of the collection of the school museum. The result of the museum’s work is several dozen museum exhibitions from its own stock collections and traveling exhibitions from the funds of the I.S. Shemanovsky IEC of Salekhard, hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, scientific collections, archaeological and ethnographic expeditions.

In general, the collection of the museum includes photo-documentary collections with the archive fund of written sources of the first years of Soviet power and the period of developed socialism, rare books, black-and-white photographs of the late XIX and early XX centuries, archaeological, natural-scientific (fossil remains of ancient extinct animals), historical, household and ethnographic collections, including one of the best among the museums of the Yamal Nenets.

Over the years, the museum has become known not only in Yamal, scientists and museum experts of Yamal, Moscow, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Barnaul, Tyumen, Tobolsk, as well as the USA, Finland, Germany, etc. cooperate with it. More than 5,000 people visit the museum every year.

The most unique exhibits of the museum: rare documents relating to the expedition of P. P. Kruzenshtern in 1862 to the shores of Yamal, including. Certificate in the name of P. P. Krusenstern on awarding him the title of lieutenant of the fleet, Certificate of awarding Seich Sarotteto with a silver medal "For Diligence" (1863) for the rescue of the team of the schooner "Yermak" in 1862, the archaeological collection of monuments "Vary Hadyt", "Yurybey", "Yuribey", etc.; the collection of stone, bronze and iron arrowheads of the IV-XVII century; the Book of the Yamskoyevskaya Pryanskaya Pryanskaya plant in the XIX century, X-X century, and the first collection of the Japanese-X.