National Art Museum of the Sakha Republic
Национальный художественный музей РС(Я)
The largest art museum in northeastern Russia, with Yakut folk art, mammoth ivory carvings, and Russian paintings.
The museum holds works by local Yakut painters, mammoth ivory carvings, Yakut silverwork and woodcarvings, and some Russian and Western European paintings from the 17th to 20th centuries. The mammoth ivory carving gallery is the most distinctive, with intricate pieces carved from ivory that is tens of thousands of years old.
It is located downtown, close to Lenin Square and the Old Town. It is closed on Mondays.
Opening hours
Closed Mondays; approx. 10:00-18:00
Nearby sights
- Lenin Square
- Treasury of the Sakha Republic
- Transfiguration Cathedral
- Archy Diete Spiritual Culture Center
- Old Town Yakutsk
- Yaroslavsky Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North
- Museum of Khomus
- Mammoth Museum