The Khakassia National Museum of Local History houses one of the largest collections of ancient fine art. These are more than 150 rare stone statues and slabs.
In the permanent exhibition “Ancient Art of Khakassia”, visitors can see how the art of the Minusinsk Basin developed from the Neolithic to the late Middle Ages. These are rare statues and stelae of the Okunev archaeological culture of the late 3rd — early 2nd millennium BC, rock carvings of the Tagar culture of the early Iron Age, monuments of the Orkhon-Yenisei runic writing left by the ancient Khakass state.
The ethnographer Albert Lipsky began to form the collection, Leonid Kyzlasov made a huge contribution, Era Sevastyanova, Vladimir Kapelko and other researchers of the history of Khakassia enlarged the collection.
In the permanent exhibition “Ancient Art of Khakassia”, visitors can see how the art of the Minusinsk Basin developed from the Neolithic to the late Middle Ages. These are rare statues and stelae of the Okunev archaeological culture of the late 3rd — early 2nd millennium BC, rock carvings of the Tagar culture of the early Iron Age, monuments of the Orkhon-Yenisei runic writing left by the ancient Khakass state.
The ethnographer Albert Lipsky began to form the collection, Leonid Kyzlasov made a huge contribution, Era Sevastyanova, Vladimir Kapelko and other researchers of the history of Khakassia enlarged the collection.
