Armavir Local History Museum

About museum

In 1904 a museum of teaching aids, the "Society for the Care of Children", was established, headed by V. I. Lunin. It was located in the Armavir Women's Gymnasium and in 1911 changed its name to the "Armavir Museum of Scientific and Applied Knowledge in Memory of February 19, 1861." In 1920 the museum was taken into state care, and in 1928 it received a fine building on the corner of Lenin and K. Marx streets. However, during a Nazi air raid in 1942 the museum was destroyed. In 1948 it was temporarily allotted a mansion at 114 Lenin Street, where it remains to this day. In 1949 the museum opened its doors to visitors. It houses numerous interesting exhibits, including paleontological finds, Scythian and Polovtsian stone sculptures, a collection of domestic and foreign weapons, studies by M. V. Nesterov and icons of the 19th — early 20th centuries. The museum is of interest not only to historians and cultural scholars but also to the general public.