Kamyshlov Local History Museum

About museum

Kamyshlov Local History Museum was opened on May 1, 1920; the first director was Alexander Andreyevich Naumov. The museum was a pride of the town, but in the 1950s it was closed as an institution 'not producing income'. The museum was reopened in 1974 at the initiative of Antonina Mikhailovna Belous. In the 1980s, for significant merits in the development of museum work and in the patriotic education of youth, the museum was awarded the title 'People's'. In 1990 it became municipal and acquired state status. Since 2001 the museum has been housed in a building constructed in 1914, whose architect and builder was Alexander Grigoryevich Falaleev. The museum has permanent exhibitions: 'Nature of Our Region', 'And Life Lasts Longer Than a Century' (furniture, tableware, clothing of the merchants of Kamyshlov), 'Life and Daily Life of the Peasants of Kamyshlov Uyezd', 'White-Stone Architecture of Kamyshlov Uyezd', 'And the Saved World Remembers' (Kamyshlov residents during the Great Patriotic War), 'Time Chose Us' (about internationalist soldiers, participants in the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya).