Angarsk City Museum

About museum

The Municipal Budgetary Cultural Institution of the city of Angarsk (the City Museum) comprises three divisions: the Clock Museum, the Mineral Museum and the Exhibition Hall. The Clock Museum was opened in 1969 and was built on the basis of the private collection of P. V. Kurdyukov, assembled by him over more than half a century. In 1995 the Exhibition Hall was opened as a branch of the Angarsk City Museum. Twelve or more exhibitions are held there each year. During the rare pauses between them, fragments of the museum's art collection are exhibited from storage. The art collection was created in 1969 after the museum received more than 500 works of painting, graphic art and sculpture by Soviet artists of the 1950s–early 1960s. The authors of these works lived and worked in various regions of the USSR. Thus, the Municipal Budgetary Cultural Institution of the city of Angarsk (the City Museum) is not only a place for the study of horology and mineralogy, but also presents to visitors the art and culture of past years.