Artinsky Historical Museum

About museum

The Artinsky Museum began its history 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 World War II (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 "settled" in the former building of the factory office, where before the museum there had been a factory apprenticeship school (in the 1920s) and a workers' youth school (in the 1970s–1980s). After a major renovation (from 2013 to 2018), temporary and traveling exhibitions are again displayed on the second floor of the two-story building. The exhibition of the temple-museum of JSC 'Artinsky Plant' (50 Koroleva St.) introduces the history of the Artinsky region. Museum staff give guided tours by appointment dedicated to the history of the Artinsky Plant ("Hello, Museum!", 5+; "History of the Artinsky Plant", 6+; "The Artinsky Plant in Wartime"). In the museum building itself there is a permanent exhibition "Peasant's Hut", and temporary exhibitions are regularly held: works of art and items by local craftsmen, collections and thematic exhibitions from the funds of the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (guided tours are conducted for these).