Askiz museum
Askiz museum presents different exhibitions such as «Ethnography of the Khakas people», «the Scientist Nikolai Fedorovich Katanov», «Askiz district», «Petr Ivanovich Kuznetsov in the village of Askiz». These exhibitions are located on the second floor of the museum building. On the first floor museum presents temporary exhibitions.
The collection is very important as for Askiz district as for all Khakassia. Today, the main museum fund consists of 4074 subjects. Mostly it is works of applied art and ethnography. From the beginning of museum history its staff actively collects paintings by local artists because each of the paintings reflects history, culture and magnificent nature of the author’s native land. Rare books, diaries, letters from the front, ethnographic essays are carefully stored in the Museum and gradually digitized.