About this museum

Open: Every day from 8:00 to 17:00 except Saturday and Sunday
Official page in the Internet is www.museum.ru/M2681

Description:

The exposure of museum acquaints with the history of district from the earliest times to the end of XX century. Objects from the archaeological excavations of Kukmara town, Machkara village and Zur-Kukmara burial ground are widely represented: female Finno-Ugric adornments made from the silver coins of the period of the administration of Aleksey Mikhaylovich, beads from the temporal adornments, clay crocks, fragment of the ceramic water pipe of the times of gold horde and so forth

About the history of Kukmara, which counts about 700 years, tell, in essence, the documents, photographs, the ethnographical and everyday objects of XIX-XX centuries. Among the photographs of ancient buildings the sights of felting factory owners brothers Komarovs apartment building causes special interest. Articles of the factory are exposed including them embroidered felt boots; and also samovars, qumgans and copper trays of Volodins' workshop produced in 1870-1890-th years

Ethnographical material reflects the special features of the way of life of different peoples - Tatars including christened, Udmurts, Russians and Marie. Interior the house of the Tatar peasant of the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries is recreated.

In the "Great Patriotic War" division are put out the fragments of weapon and equipment of Soviet and German soldiers brought from "Valley of Death" and from "Neva patch". Portraits, copies of the reward sheets of five Heroes of the Soviet Union, born in the province, way in the war of 147th rifle division, which finished forming from the conscripts of the Kukmara region, and 25 volumes of "Book of the Memory" of Republic of Tatarstan are represented.

(This text is from the official site.) Translated with babelfish.altavista.com

(Many things to look are in the Photographs section)