Goat Museum in Tver

About museum

Since 2006 Vladimir Ilyich Lavrenov, Candidate of Historical Sciences and a specialist in heraldry, began collecting coats of arms, flags and other heraldic materials for a future museum. In 2008 the exhibition was opened. It all started with a joke printed in a newspaper that Tver had long needed to open a museum to the goat, which is a character of local history. Today it houses more than 6,000 exhibits from 40 countries around the world, dating from the 14th century to the present day. Here you can see figurines and statuettes, hairpins, coins, cutlery, cufflinks, diadems, porcelain and bronze goat figurines, toys and coins of the Grand Duchy of Tver. Copies from the Athens Archaeological Museum, the Dresden Picture Gallery and the British Museum are also on display. All the exhibits are united by a single theme — the study of the image of the goat as a familiar animal and as a symbol of world culture. The museum is one of Tver's most interesting tourist projects.