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The V. A. Derkach Museum of History and Local Lore is a state museum located in the village of Chishmikioy, ATU Gagauzia, Republic of Moldova. The official opening date is May 5, 1999 in honor of the founder V. A. Derkach. The subject of the museum's activities is the collection, study, storage, popularization and exhibition of objects of material and spiritual culture of the gagauz people. The museum is located in the center of the village, in the House of Culture, on the second floor. The museum has 5 halls, the total area is 92 m2. At the beginning of 2023, the museum fund amounts to 2200 exhibits.

History The first mention of the existence of the local history museum named after V. A. Derkach in the village of Chishmikioy dates back to 1988; it was founded on the basis of the school museum in the high school (now the Public Institution Theoretical Lyceum of the village of Chishmikioy). The official opening date of the museum was May 5, 1999, when the exhibits were moved to the local House of Culture.

Museum collections Exhibits and collections of the local history museum named after V. A. Derkach of the village of Chishmikioy are located in 5 exhibition halls. By the beginning of 2023, the museum fund amounted to more than 2200 exhibits. The main fund of the museum includes: memorable items, documents and photographs from the life of famous people of the village, items related to events of national and international significance, Gagauz antiquities (carpets, national clothes and shoes, national towels, framed embroideries). The museum contains a large collection of national Gagauz carpets, handmade from natural materials with various patterns, which consists of more than 100 carpets. The most valuable of them are the 1913 carpet and the 1928 carpet. More than 180 framed embroideries hang on the walls of Room 1, most of them older than 1953. The collection of homemade towels and towels with embroidered or woven patterns consists of more than 60 exhibits. The exhibition of ancient chests consists of approximately 50 chests in which the brides of the village of Chishmikioy collected their dowries. The exhibition includes a collection of retro dresses consisting of wedding dresses and models of everyday clothing worn by Chishmikioy women. There are 28 dresses in the collection, and the oldest is from 1934. In 2022, the museum collection was enriched with a new collection of antique sewing machines. The collection includes 20 machines - 11 are small tabletop and 8 large. The oldest of them is from 1930.

Literature Карамиля Мария, Сильвиу Орган Чишмикёй: Материалы по истории села (1809—2009) — Кишинёв «Seria» SRL, 2009. — 478—480 с. Ирина Константинова, Степан Булгар, Андрей Муткогло «Архитектура традиционного жилища гагаузов в конце XVIII — начале XXI вв.» — Comrat: Centrul de Cercetări Științifice al Găgăuziei, 2021. — 232c.