Kardymovsky Local History Museum

About museum

In May 1990 the Kardymovsky Historical and Local History Museum was opened, partly based on the museum of the Kardymovo secondary school, which had been opened in 1964 under the direction of teacher Filipp Prokopyevich Mudrichenko and school principal Leonid Grigoryevich Ulenkov. The museum had five exhibition halls. The first presented the region's history from ancient times to the 1812 war; the second covered ethnography and the district's churches; the third and fourth honored Heroes of the Soviet Union and veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The fifth hall featured the exhibition "Let There Be Ships." In 2002 an exhibition of dolls by Vera Iovna Yakovleva was opened in the museum foyer, and in 2003 one of the halls was converted into an exhibition hall. In 2009, with funds from entrepreneurs, a regional Duma deputy and a woodcut artist, an exhibition of woodcut works was opened. In 2010 the museum offered virtual tours on the Patriotic Wars of 1812 and 1941–1945. Today the museum is expanding its activities and seeking new ways to turn it into an institution with a distinctive aesthetic atmosphere.