Inta Museum of Local Lore description and photos - Russia - North-West: Komi Republic (Topic)

Inta Museum of Local Lore description and photos - Russia - North-West: Komi Republic. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Inta Museum of Local Lore is located in the town of Inta on Kuratova Street, 28. The Museum of Local Lore in Inta was organized in 1969. In 1971, it became a branch of the Republican Museum of History and Local Lore. In 1992, the museum officially became an independent institution. The initiator of the creation and the first director of the local history museum was the historian and local historian Malofeevskaya L.N.

Today, the museum includes an exposition and fund complex, as well as a historical and ethnographic museum of the village of Petrun and a historical and memorial complex of the village of Abez. library with reading room, scientific archive, restoration workshop, lecture hall.

The rarest archaeological exhibits are finds from the 1st-3rd centuries. AD: mirror and rings, bronze pendants, which were found during expeditions in 2001 and 2003 near Lake Pozemty.

The exhibits of the paleontological collection, which consists of materials on the paleoflora and paleofauna of the Upper Paleozoic era, the Lower Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.

A large collection from the funds of the local history museum of the city of Inta also characterizes the history of this region. First of all, the attention of visitors is attracted by personal archives: art critic N. Punin, philosopher L. Karsavin, scriptwriters Y. Dunsky and V. Fried, metal scientist Feshchenko-Chopivsky and other famous people. Collections of photographs of old views of the city are of historical value, presented by the author's collections of Bludau, Porotikov, Ivanov.

The museum also houses a collection of products made of bone, suede, fur, leather, both modern and ancient, which characterize the national Komi crafts, a collection of items related to the work of miners.

One of the expositions of the museum entitled "City and Destinies" presents the history of the city, which is revealed through the destinies of specific, significant for Inta personalities.

The museum exposition also tells about the industrial development of the local coal deposit. It's kind of a museum within a museum. It's called the Coal Museum. This is the only museum of its kind in the Komi Republic. It was created in 2001, its opening was timed to the sixtieth anniversary of the formation of the Intaugol company. The Coal Museum displays photographs, documents, models of mine mechanisms, tools, services, as well as equipment and clothing, i.e. everything that helped to recreate the process of exploration of coal reserves of the Inta region, construction, operation of local mines. Especially for the museum, various types of mine workings were built in full size.

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