Artinsky Historical Museum

About museum

The history of the Artinsky Museum began in 1967 as a people's museum. The collection was assembled by local residents, and a particularly large contribution was made by Civil War and Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) veteran Mikhail Mikhailovich Babushkin — the museum's first director. Since 1974 the Artinsky Museum has been a branch of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. Twenty years later the exhibition 'moved into' the former factory office building, where prior to the museum there had been a factory apprenticeship school (in the 1920s) and a school for working youth (in the 1970s–1980s). After a major renovation (2013–2018), temporary and travelling exhibitions were again placed on the second floor of the two-story building. The exhibition at the temple-museum of OAO 'Artinsky Plant' (Koroleva St., 50) introduces the history of the Artinsky region. Museum staff give guided tours by appointment devoted to the history of the Artinsky Plant ('Hello, Museum!', 5+; 'History of the Artinsky Plant', 6+; 'Artinsky Plant During the War'). In the museum building itself there is a permanent exhibition 'Peasant House', and temporary exhibitions are regularly mounted: works of art and items by local craftsmen, collections and themed exhibitions from the funds of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (guided tours are offered).