20-8. AT THE MUSEUM

The parcel with our spare-parts is not likely to arrive before Monday or Tuesday. What to do? The historical museum saves our day. Here we see how the original Siberians, in particular the Yakuts and the Burjats, lived and dressed - much like the Samic people we know from Scandinavia. We see guns and crosses from imperial Russia and a reconstruction of at stately home. Dusty and unreal. On the upper floor there is an official exhibition about WW2 in Siberia and a strange collection of clothes and household items from each decade of the 20th cen. What to say about hard and cruel times? This is very much an unresolved question.