Buysky Local History Museum named after T.V. Olkhovik

About museum

The Buysky Local History Museum was opened in 1946. It was the realization of the idea of Pavel Mikhailovich Drulis, who worked as a forest conductor in the forestry and was the first member from Buysky Uyezd of the Kostroma Scientific Society for the Study of the Local Region. He travelled widely across the uyezd, recording legends and collecting archaeological finds, coins and items of peasant life. After the repressions the Kostroma Scientific Society for the Study of the Local Region fell apart, but local historians continued their scientific work. In 1940 a society of local historians was registered in Buy, and in the autumn of the same year premises were allocated for a museum. During the Great Patriotic War the museum was closed, but after the war the local historians returned to the idea of creating it. On March 20, 1946 the museum was opened by the decision of the executive committee of the City Council of Workers' Deputies. The first director of the museum was Pavel Mikhailovich Drulis. In 1966 the museum's premises were expanded, and in 1973 Tamara Vasilievna Olkhovik became the new director.