Mozhaysk Historical and Local Lore Museum

About museum

The Mozhaysk Historical and Local Lore Museum is a branch of the Borodino Field museum-reserve in Mozhaysk. Its history began in 1905 with the local zemstvo, when a museum of visual aids for students was organized. After Countess P. S. Uvarova donated a collection from the Porechye estate of Mozhaysk uyezd, the museum became a historical and local lore museum. In 1917, after the February Revolution, the museum was left unsupervised and its exhibits were dispersed to schools and to a museum organized by the local cooperative. However, after a fire in 1920 almost all the exhibits perished. In the 1920s N. I. Vlasyev and V. I. Gorokhov revived the museum. In 1941, before the war, the collections were evacuated to Istra. In 1964 the museum was organized at School No. 1 at the initiative of teachers A. A. and B. L. Vasnetsov. In 1981 the museum was reopened. In 1985 the S. V. Gerasimov House-Museum was opened, which in 1990 became a branch of the museum-reserve. The museum's collections include historical and everyday items, archaeological finds, documents, photographs and paintings.