The Siberian museum of Decorative and Applied arts was established in September 2019. Interior design and household objects decorated with Ural-Siberian painting and national embroidery, textile art, leathercraft and metal craft articles are on display at the museum. The main part of the museum collection includes the graduation works of the students of the Omsk branch of the Higher School of Folk Arts, and also the works of the lecturers who are well-known painters and masters in the field of decorative and applied arts in Omsk.

    The museum workers give workshops on Ural-Siberian painting. Ural-Siberian painting is a kind of free oil folk art painting on a painted wooden surface which was commonly used in Western Siberia and in the Urals. Nowadays interest in folk arts and crafts becomes actual in Siberia. The museum workers have set up programmes and workshops on Ural-Siberian painting, jewelry manufacturing, leather and textile token gifts making, art doll, metal craft.

    The main purpose of the museum is to preserve and pass on the traditions of the craftsmen of decorative and applied arts of Siberia in making leather products, metal handicrafts, precious gemstones jewelry, art textile articles, Ural-Siberian painting traditions