Mezhevsky Local History Museum

About museum

In 1975 a group of veterans of the Mezhevsky District appealed to the district committee of the CPSU with a request to create a museum to preserve the region's cultural and historical heritage. As a result, 800 exhibits were collected, and on December 21, 1982 the museum was opened to visitors. In 1990 it became a branch of the Kostroma Museum-Reserve, and on July 2, 2018 it was granted the status of a municipal state institution. The museum houses items of peasant household life, handicrafts, collections of samovars and clothing from the 19th–20th centuries, flax-processing tools, agricultural implements, as well as materials about participants in the Patriotic War of 1812, the First Cavalry Army, the Civil War, the Tolstykh family, the writer I. M. Kasatkin, and the establishment of Soviet power in Mezha. Among the most interesting items are a sword-cleaver by an unknown master and the cane-chair of I. M. Kasatkin. The museum also presents a permanent exhibition "History of the Mezhev Land" and periodically holds exhibitions of painting and decorative-applied arts.