Her display is not continuous.

She is made available to viewers in limited periods, and the museum has guidelines about photography and conduct around her remains that reflect the spiritual dimension of her presence there.

For visitors who make the journey to Gorno-Altaysk — which is itself in a beautiful part of the Altai Republic, surrounded by mountains and rivers — the museum offers the closest possible encounter with the Ice Maiden.

The two-and-a-half-thousand-year-old woman is there, in her sarcophagus, in the conditions that preserve what the permafrost once preserved.