Bryansk State Regional Museum

About museum

Bryansk State Regional Museum is one of the oldest museums in Bryansk Oblast, opened on September 1, 1921. The founder and first director of the museum was local historian and archaeologist S. S. Deev. During the Great Patriotic War the museum collection was lost, but after the liberation of the Bryansk region from the occupiers, work was carried out over several years to form collections and create a new exhibition. In 1982 the construction of a modern museum building on Partizan Square was completed. Today the museum presents about 290,000 items: unique archaeological collections, hoards of Arab and Old Russian coins, manuscripts and early printed books, examples of Maltsov glass, peasant clothing and utensils, relics of the family of F. I. Tyutchev and of the partisan movement. The museum also covers the plant and animal life of Bryansk Oblast — fossils and animal remains are displayed — and there is a hall for the 'Planetarium' department with a dome for demonstrating astronomical and space programs and a Foucault pendulum.