Ilyinsky Local History Museum
About museum
The Ilyinsky Museum is an important cultural center of Ivanovo Oblast. Its history began in 1935 under the leadership of a teacher at Khlebnitskaya School, D. E. Chernyavsky. Nine years later the museum was recognized as a state institution. The core of the museum's collection consists of rare books, weapons, household and ethnographic items, products of blacksmithing and pottery crafts, wood carvings, and black‑polished pottery. The museum's exhibitions are dedicated to the history of Ilyinsky District from the earliest times to the present day.