Information
- Location
- East Kazakhstan Region, Semey city
- Period
- 1856
- Category
- Historical and cultural monuments of republican significance
- Type
- House, Architectural monument, Urban planning
- Kind
- Monuments of urban planning and architecture
Sources
- Album of historical and cultural objects and places of general pilgrimage of Kazakhstan. - Astana: KazSRIC, 2018. - 496 pages.
Description
The museum was founded in 1883 on the initiative of political exiles from the People's Volunteers Mikhaelis E.P., Filippov V.N., Suvortsev M.I. and many others stood at its origins. Abay, Shakarim, Auezov M. made a significant contribution to the development of the museum. The museum has changed its location eight times. The last move took place in 1977 and is currently located in the building of the former House of the Governor General. The building was presumably built in 1856. The architect is unknown. Before the revolution, the governor lived in it, then it was renamed the House of Freedom. The building is one-story and symmetrical, in plan it forms the letter P.
Today, the museum fund has more than 107 thousand items of storage in the form of collections on archaeology, paleontology, ethnography, zoology, mineralogy, numismatics, photographic documents, natural history and historical household items. Among them are manuscripts, reviews of the Semipalatinsk region (1882–1910), commemorative books, address-calendars, atlases and maps, notes of the Semipalatinsk Subdivision of the Russian Geographical Society (1903–1933).
The exposition of the museum is represented by the following sections in six halls: “Paleontology and geology”, “Nature of the native land”, “Archaeology and ethnography”, “History of the city and region”, “About the movement of Alash and the city of Alash”, “Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. We are for a nuclear-free world”, “Family in the years of independence”.