Museum of the History of Rural Culture

About museum

The settlement of Martyush was lucky: 16 years ago it became the site of the district's first publicly accessible rural museum — the Museum of the History of Rural Culture. The Central District Library provided the space for it, and since then the museum has operated under its auspices at: Martyush settlement, Lenina Street, 11. The first collectors of the museum's collections were the librarians themselves. Today the museum has more than five thousand exhibits. Here the residents of Martyush saw for the first time paintings by the young fellow-countryman Andrey Blinov and by the district's eldest artist Nadezhda Pavlovna Chechulina from the village of Pokrovskoye, as well as works by the talented teachers of the art school, the Kopyrkin couple, and their students. For several years the museum has hosted annual exhibitions of paintings by the notable Kamen artist Anatoly Terentyev, a great lover and connoisseur of nature. In 2014 his jubilee exhibition (for the artist's 70th birthday), which he titled 'Let's Preserve This World,' was held. But the museum is not only a window into the world of art. It presents to us contemporaries who live among us — those who have achieved great success in some field and become known, and those who simply lived and worked honestly for the people and thereby earned the respect of their fellow villagers. Exhibitions such as 'The Happy Years of Martyush', 'Sporting Martyush', 'One Hundred Years of Life of the Kamen Village', and 'Iron Will' showcased people who are role models.