Lyubim Historical and Local History Museum

About museum

The Lyubim Historical and Local History Museum was opened on January 15, 1971. Today its collections include nearly 3,000 items. The museum's local history department is presented through nine exhibitions. The "History of the Town" exhibition tells about the founding of Lyubim, the local sacred sites, and Lyubim's connections with Tsar Ivan the Terrible and the master of the Livonian Order, Fürstenberg. Here you can see a scale model of Lyubim Fortress at 1:100, the sculptural composition "Ivan the Terrible", the armor of a 16th-century Russian warrior, cannonballs, and much more. The "Folk Crafts" and "Peasant Life" exhibitions describe the townspeople — their daily life, customs, traditions, and occupations. You can see furniture from a 19th-century peasant hut, clothing, household items, tools, and works by local craftsmen. The "Tools" exhibition includes an ard (sokha), harrow, winnowing machine, flax beater, scutcher, and other implements that illustrate the hard peasant labor.