Artefacts
In August 1942, Dixon became the scene of hostilities
One of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore exposition sections dedicated to the Great Patriotic War tells about the contribution of Dixon’s defenders to the failure of Hitler’s operation Wunderland. The dioramas reproducing the attack of the fascist battleship Admiral Sheer on Dikson Island, the response ...
18th century orthodox shrines stored in Norilsk museum
The liturgical book, Oktoih, is at least 260 years old. The leather-bound tome came into the museum's collection in 1995. It can be seen in the current exhibition, in the section dedicated to the development of the North, next to the icon of the patron ...
Smoking pipes in Taimyr cost much
The richest ethnographic collection of the Taimyr Local History Museum is represented by traditional clothing, household items, reindeer husbandry and fishing tools, jewelry and even toys of the indigenous peoples of the peninsula. Unique pipes stand out among household items, valued very much in Taimyr. ...
Medieval angel from Netherlands got home in Taimyr
This question was asked by a famous ethnographer Galina Gracheva to the museum specialists almost 30 years ago. An expert from the cradle of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences - the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, the former Kunstkamera, - answered her own question ...
Norillag former prisoner’s notebook survived
The Taimyr Museum of Local Lore is famous for its collections. This time we would like to tell personal fund of Alexander Snovsky - a physician, teacher, and a former prisoner of Norillag. The keepers helped their contributor to publish several books. Unfortunately, Alexander Snovsky ...
Brass sundial stored in Norilsk Museum for seven decades
More-than-two-century-old device is in excellent condition. According to Dmitry Shebalkov, the current head of the fund storage department of the Norilsk Museum, until 1980, only the time and place of the find were known about the rarity: “The receipt book says that the sundial was ...
The tambourine of the last Nganasan shaman was shown on Instagram
The ethnographic museum, located in the Bunisyak camp at the Lake Lama, shows the household items, culture and art of Taimyr inhabitants. This is a private collection of Oleg Krashevsky, an entrepreneur, ecologist, scientist, hunter, ethnographer and traveler, known both in the country and abroad. Due ...