Kuraginsky Local History Museum

About museum

In September 1964, the District Local History Museum was established at the Kuraginskaya eight-year school. An additional room was added for this purpose, and in 1969 the District Executive Committee decided to turn it into the 'District People's Local History Museum'. Today it is located in part of the building of the former trading house of the merchant and goldminer Pashennykh, Nikolai Pavlovich. The museum has three branches and preserves over 23,000 items from all historical periods of the Kuraginsky district's development, including 17,000 units of painting, graphics, sculpture, archaeology, numismatics, decorative-applied arts and everyday life, natural sciences and others. The museum also holds many photo-documentary materials and unique 19th-century items. Currently the museum does not have a permanent exhibition but conducts an active program of exhibitions and also offers museum lessons, off-site excursions, temporary exhibitions and displays from its own collections and those of other museums and private collectors.