The decision to create the museum was made on May 13, 1929. The official opening of the museum took place in August 1930.
Vladimir Petrovich Yermolaev was appointed the first director of the museum. He played a great role in preserving the historical and cultural heritage of Tuva. Vladimir Ermolaev was the first photo-reporter in the republic: he photographed the nature of Tuva, the life of the population, crafts, and various moments of official and public life.
Since 2008, the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum has been located in a large white building constructed especially for it in the center of Kyzyl, at the intersection of Kochetov, Titov and Lenin streets. Now the museum has three exhibition floors, which reflect almost the entire history and culture of the Tuvan people.
The Tuva Museum is famous for
its rich archeological, ethnographic, cult and art collections, including the
Scythian gold from the Arjaan and Arjaan-2 mounds, which were an archeological
sensation of the 20th–21st centuries.
