Arkaim is represented by itself a museum complex under the open sky, including a full reconstruction and a classical museum with showcases and archaeological finds. This diversity of representation of archaeological data is due to the fact that the archaeologists not only recovered items from the ground, but also try to make them yourself, using the technology of bronze age and stone age. The process of self-recreation objects or as it is called by archaeologists, reconstruction, so interesting and informative that requires the creation of separate exposures with the experimental dwellings and furnaces. According to this principle, on the arch there is a museum of Ancient technology and Dwelling of the stone age.
The history of "Museum" of Arkaim has started since the beginning of excavations. Almost immediately to the excavation site began streaming the curious. They have become more, they asked archaeologists to a variety of questions and asked to show those items that were recovered from the excavation. This pilgrimage distracted archaeologists from work, so it was decided to allocate a separate person to work with the public. Originally it was the students who carried out a brief tour of the excavation, reported the necessary minimum of historical and archaeological information and showed the most interesting findings. However, as time went on, the number of findings grew rapidly. The question arose: where to store and exhibit the artifacts without risking their safety? For this purpose was formed a small but informative museum is in an old construction trailer. With the strengthening of the infrastructure the museum moved into the cottage of a science camp, where four small halls of the exposition was arranged. 1995 saw the construction of the inpatient building of the museum. The project, authored by the architect, V. Fuksman, was awarded a prize at the competition in Rio de Janeiro in 2002, Construction was completed in 2004. In 2005,it was formed by the temporary exhibition, which was presented authentic items of archeology and Ethnography, open to visitors today. The museum was named museum of "Man and Nature", as the archaeologists presented it is not just shards of an ancient civilization, but put them in the context of natural cycles of the southern Urals.
The items were retrieved by archaeologists during excavations of Arkaim can be seen not only in the museum of Man and Nature", but in the Historical Museum of Moscow, in Museum of local lore of Chelyabinsk.
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