National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alanya

The museum was founded in 1893 on the initiative of the Terek Statistical Committee. It opened on the wave of interest in archaeology, which arose in the region with the discovery of the famous Koban burial ground with unique bronze objects, which formed the basis of the museum collection along with the collection of weapons and numismatics. The oldest museum in the South of Russia.

Today, the main building of the museum is located in the mansion of the merchant Khodyakov, built in the early XX century. The fund is about 300 thousand units of storage. In the museum collection there are unique items of archaeology, rare samples of Caucasian and Eastern weapons, a rich photo fund.

The structure includes the head museum and 11 branches: the Museum of Ossetian literature named after Kosta Khetagurov, the Memorial House-Museum of Costa Khetagurov, the Memorial House-Museum of I.A. Pliev, the Museum of History of Vladikavkaz, the Memorial House-Museum of G. Tsagolov, the Ardon Museum of Public Education, etc.