Ethnographic Museum

Ethnographic Museum

The museum was opened in 1968. Museum exhibits Kazakh and Russian ethnography, material and spiritual culture of the peoples and indigenous ethnic groups living in the East Kazakhstan region.

The museum was opened in 1968. Museum buildings are historic and cultural monuments: former shop of merchant I.M. Kozhevnikov, mayor assistant, built in 1914 by captured Czechs; the former building of the highest urban primary school, built in 1886; former Mariinsky female school, opened in 1902.

Now these buildings are expositions and exhibitions of Kazakh and Russian ethnography, material and spiritual culture of the peoples and indigenous ethnic groups living in the East Kazakhstan region.