The exposition features ancient ceramic vessel which was created in the 15th or 14th century BC. It has a pot-like shape, a flat bottom and a bent neck. The item is decorated with well-preserved ornament on the edges of the neck and the upper half of the body. The pattern consists of uniform elements: straight lines, zigzags and dots.

In ancient times, such products were most often sculpted manually from a single piece of clay, without a potter’s wheel. Ancient crafters also employed band and braid technique, rolling the clay into oblong straps and arranging them spiral-like on top of each other. This method fit equally well for making both small cups and pots, and huge jugs. Though not always smooth, they were invariably durable.

The ancient tribes, who had founded settlements on this territory, lived in semi-dugouts and frame-pillar ground-based houses. Most buildings had open fireplaces located directly on the floor or in specially dug holes. Local residents were engaged in cattle breeding, fishing and agriculture; they knew how to process copper and bronze, and also created jewelry and ceramic products. Judging by the fact that archaeologists did not find too many bones of wild animals, tribes rarely hunted. Scientists came to the conclusion that the inhabitants of the Volga-Kama settlements made everything they needed on their own.

The researchers identified the burial sites as belonging to soil and barrow types. The dead were buried lying on their back, with their body straightened, or lying on their side, with their body bent. Their afterlife dowry included weapons, jewelry, household items and ceramics.
At the end of the 20th century, a discussion broke out in the scientific community whether it was appropriate to spin off the Prikazan culture into a separate entity; its chronology was also discussed. The works of Natalia Chlenova, Vladimir Markov, Sergei Kuzminykh, Andrei Chizhevsky, Rimma Goldina and other researchers led to the revision of the concept of a unified Prikazan culture and the separation of independent Lugovsky, Buysky and Maklacheevsky cultures from it.