Podporozhsky Local History Museum

About museum

Podporozhsky District is a historical region with a rich cultural heritage. It attracts people from different parts of Russia and abroad. Every year the museum is visited by thousands of tourists who admire the beauty of the nature and the monuments of wooden architecture.

Podporozhsky District is one of the most ecologically clean and beautiful districts of the Leningrad Region, where you can see wooden architectural monuments from the 15th–19th centuries. In 1965 a local history club was established, and in 1969 a historical and local history museum was founded. An exhibition hall was opened in 1997. The museum's collections consist of 22,000 storage units, and the sources of additions to the collections are archaeological expeditions and donations from private individuals. The museum exhibits unique photographs and documents on the city's history, models of wooden monuments, household items, coins, relics of the Great Patriotic War, archives of the city's enterprises and organizations, and paintings by local artists.