Podolye Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve

About museum

The V. I. Lenin House-Museum is the core of the Podolye museum-reserve, opened in 1937 in honor of the October Revolution. The museum-reserve received its status in 1991. The exhibition presents the history, culture and everyday life of Podolsk in the 19th–20th centuries, as well as valuable archaeological monuments in the surrounding area. The museum's protection zone covers the most intact part of the city from the past century. The activities of the museum-reserve combine several directions: preservation of a unique environment, understanding Lenin's place in world culture, and turning the museum into a school for the development of museum functions. Visitors are regarded as equal interlocutors, and the museum as a place of cultural dialogue. The museum's collections comprise 47,849 storage units, of which the main fund consists of 30,233 items. The museum houses 11 collections on various themes. It also attracts the attention of children, who are regarded as partners in the dialogue of cultures.