Kamyshin Local History Museum

About museum

Kamyshin Local History Museum is located in the building of the Zemstvo Administration, built in 1901 to a design by architect A. T. Timofeev. This architectural monument took first place in the "Pearl of the Volgograd Region" contest in 2009. More than 60,000 museum items are exhibited over an area of more than 1,500 square meters. The first halls present information about the relict "Ushi" Mountains surrounding Kamyshin, and about the Dmitrievsky Regiment, which arrived from Kazan by order of the tsar. The halls are dedicated to the history of the city and the legend of the Kamyshin watermelon. Here you can learn about the facts and events of the Great Patriotic War, the people of Kamyshin and those who took part in it. Photographs, documents and objects tell about those who fought at the front and on the home front. Other halls of the museum present information about the revolutions, the Civil War, and the political, economic and cultural life of the city, the region and the 20th century.