You'll want to browse the collections at NKVD Memorial Museum of Political Repression, Tomsk History Museum, and Oppression Museum. You can catch a show at Theater Square, Skomorokh Puppet and Actor Theater, and Chamber Drama Theater. At Tomsk Theater, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of Siberia at TSU, and Museum of History of Tomsk Polytechnic University, you'll experience some of the local culture.