Minusinsk Museum of Local Lore

The creator of the museum and its main curator until the end of his life was the Minusinsk pharmacist (head of a private pharmacy), a passionate collector and collector N.M. Martyanov (1844-1904), who settled in Minusinsk in 1874.

Initially, the museum was located in the house of the mayor G.I. Gusev (49 Oborony str.). In 1878, by decision of the City Duma, a local public library was opened at the museum. The Duma allocated 200 rubles in silver for its maintenance.

Since its inception, the museum itself has existed exclusively on public donations, 75% of which were contributions from ordinary citizens and surrounding peasants. In 1900 alone, 1,500 rubles were received from the treasury. For almost 30 years, N. M. Martyanov headed the museum on a voluntary basis. But it was necessary to support a family, and therefore he was forced to serve as a pharmacist.

In 1879, a building was allocated for the museum on Cathedral Square of Minusinsk , but it did not meet the needs of the museum. Therefore, it was decided to build a special building. The project was developed by the Irkutsk architect Rassushin with the assistance of a political exile, a museum employee A.O. Lukoshevich. The construction of the new museum building began in May 1887 . In 1890, the construction of the museum was completed.

In 1885, the number of visitors to the Museum reached 8 thousand people, moreover, the majority were peasants.

The museum's collections were awarded at Russian and foreign exhibitions - Florence (1885), the Siberian-Ural Exhibition in Yekaterinburg (1887), the All-Russian Industrial Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1896), the World Exhibition in Chicago (1893) and the World Exhibition in 1900 in Paris . The charter of the Minusinsk Museum, authored by N. M. Martyanov, was the basis for the charters of many Siberian museums.

December 13, 1904 , on the day of Martyanov’s death, the City Duma decided to name the museum and the street on which Nikolai Mikhailovich lived.

Between the old and new buildings of the museum there is a bust to its founder, the work of the sculptor G. D. Lavrov.

The museum collection totals 200.5 thousand items. The largest collections are: natural history (geology, botany, zoology, paleontology) - over 45 thousand items; archeology - 33 thousand storage units; ethnographies (Khakases, Tuvans, Russians, Mordovians, Germans, etc.) - over 10 thousand storage units; a collection of negatives and photographs - over 9 thousand storage.

Among the unique ones are: a collection of bronze objects from the late Bronze Age (XIII – VIII centuries BC) and the early Iron (VII – II centuries BC) centuries; a collection of stone statues, steles and plates with images from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages, including a collection of steles with runic-like Orkhon-Yenisei inscriptions (VII-XIII centuries); a collection of ethnography of the peoples of Sayano-Altai (Khakasses, Tuvans); a collection of herbariums of plants and mushrooms of Sayano-Altai.

The museum’s scientific library was opened in 1878. Today its fund is more than 125 thousand units.

The museum receives about 300 thousand visitors annually. . The number of employees is 99 people.

The Martyanov Readings are held (XXIV - in December 2013).

• Memorial Museum “The apartment of G. M. Krzhizhanovsky and V. V. Starkov”. Opened in 1970. Address: 662800, Krasnoyarsk Territory, the city of Minusinsk, ul. October, 73. Exposition and exhibition area of ​​220 m².
• Museum of the Decembrists. Opened in 1997 Address - Minusinsk, st. Defense, 59-a.

• Martyanov, Nikolai Mikhailovich
• Kropotkin, Alexander Alexandrovich
• Klementz, Dmitry Alexandrovich
• Yarilov, Arseniy Arsenievich
• Savenkov, Ivan Timofeevich
• Yakovlev, Alexey Ivanovich
• Kovalev, Vladimir Alekseevich
• Kharchevnikov, Alexander Vasilievich - director of the museum from 1927 to 1937.

• Krasnoyarsk affair of geologists, 1949.

• Klementz D.A. Antiquities of the Minusinsk Museum. Monuments of metal eras. - Tomsk, 1886.
• Cohn F. Ya. Historical outline of the Minusinsk Local Museum for 25 years. 1877-1902. - Kazan, 1902.
• Yavorsky G.I.N. M. Martyanov. A brief outline of life and work. - Krasnoyarsk, 1969.

• Archival documents in libraries and museums of the Russian Federation. Directory. Minusinsk Museum of Local Lore.
• Red place