Museum of the History of Orenburg

About museum

The building of the Museum of the History of Orenburg was constructed during the second governorship of Orenburg's Governor-General V. A. Perovsky (1851–1857) in the neo-Gothic (or pseudo-Gothic) style. According to Orenburg historian P. P. Stolpyansky, the city owed Perovsky the construction of a large number of buildings: the caravanserai, the Control Chamber, the Public Assembly, the building of the Treasury Chamber, and barracks. Vasily Alekseyevich tried to give provincial Orenburg the appearance of a capital. As a result, public buildings and institutions, stone houses, balls and city festivities appeared. The museum was established in 1983 in honor of the city's 240th anniversary. It consists of nine exhibitions dedicated to the history of Orenburg from ancient times. Here one can learn about the city's founding, the peasant war led by E. Pugachev, A. S. Pushkin's stay in Orenburg, the city's architecture, ethnography, regional administration, famous people of Russia and researchers of the region.