Museums Scythian art

golden plaques representing resurrection of dead hero (saka culture, 5th century bc, hermitage museum).

the finds important nomad burials remain in countries found, or @ least capitals of states in located when found, many finds ukraine , other countries of former soviet union in russia. western european , american museums have relatively small collections, though there have been exhibitions touring internationally. hermitage museum in st. petersburg has longest standing , best collection of scythian art. court museum founded in 1764 catherine great, hermitage museum has art dating way stone age, including 3 million items. during 1840-1852, museum being reconstructed, expanded later in 1920s. although of these pieces had been sold soviet government in 1930-1934, museums collection had increased amount tremendously during post-world war ii. other museums including several local ones in russia, in budapest , miskolc in hungary, kiev in ukraine, national museum of afghanistan , elsewhere have important holdings. scythian gold exhibition came number of ukrainian exhibitions including museum of historical treasures of ukraine, institute of archaeology in kiev , state historical archaeological preserve @ pereiaslav-khmel nyts kyi.