Ishak Local History Museum

About museum

In 1983 the Ishak Local History Museum was opened in the two-storey house of the former merchant Alexander Kostin. Earlier the building housed a boarding school for children evacuated from besieged Leningrad during the Second World War, and after the war children from the Ishak and A-Margin secondary schools studied here. The creation of the museum was supported by community representatives of the two village councils, as well as by V. I. Meshkov, S. N. Mikhailova, K. P. Petrov, I. D. Dmitriev, I. F. Averkieva, S. R. Malyutin, Yu. A. Ilyukhin and others. The museum exhibits more than 3,000 items, including paintings, graphic works, examples of applied art and documents. There are seven halls, including a Hall of Military Glory dedicated to the heroic deeds of our countrymen during the Great Patriotic War, and an Ethnography Hall displaying collections of folk art of our ancestors, including antiques, embroidery, clothing and accessories, as well as weaving and traditional looms.