Khilok Local History Museum

About museum

The Khilok Municipal Local History Museum is the only museum in the western districts of Zabaykalsky Krai that encompasses a complex of regional natural and historical attractions. It was founded in 1990 in a former residential barrack built in 1896. This building once housed railway workers' apartments, and later accommodated the NKVD, an evening school and the District House of Culture. Geologists, paleontologists and archaeologists were involved in assembling the exhibition. The first exhibition for visitors opened on June 30, 1992, and in August 1996 the first permanent exhibition hall was created. The museum consists of two parts - the local history section (5 halls) and the exhibition section (3 halls). The first features halls of nature, ethnography and history. In the second you can see works by students of the Khilok Children's Art School, exhibitions from the collections of other museums, numismatic and other collections. The municipal museum's holdings number more than 19,000 items.