Museum of local lore

The history of Salekhard museum started in 1906 when father Irinarkh (I.S. Shemanovsky), superior of Obdorsk Orthodox mission presented collection of books and ethnographic exhibits for public overview.

In 2003 a new building of Salekhard museum named after I.S. Shemanovsky was opened for visitors. The museum celebrated its centenary not a long time ago. In the new building there are permanent expositions devoted to nature, history and ethnography of Yamal. Thematic exhibitions take place in the exhibition hall on regular basis. Guest exhibitors are often represented by the biggest museums of Russia. Besides traditional forms of exposition activity the museum supports up-to-date information technologies. Recently a virtual branch of the Russian Museum was open here. It gives opportunity to Yamal schoolchildren and students being far from large cultural centres to follow the events taking place in the Russian Museum in real time, to get access to new multimedia programmes representing unique collection of the Museum, and to get remote education.