Purovsky District Museum of History and Local Lore

About museum

The Municipal Budgetary Cultural Institution "Purovsky District Museum of History and Local Lore" has existed since 1972. In 1980 it was awarded the status of a "People's Museum." The museum's main goal is to preserve the memory of the pioneers of the 1970s and to acquaint district residents with the ethnoculture of the local population, as well as to document and materially record the history of the founding and development of Purovsky District. The museum's collection is continually replenished through donations and purchases of museum items and comprises more than 26,500 exhibits, including collections of historical everyday life, ethnography, natural history, photo-documentary materials, fine art, numismatics and archaeology. The museum library contains more than 1,300 books. The museum has permanent exhibitions; particularly valuable items include a mammoth skull, a yagushka stuffed with swan down, traditional Russian national clothing, chain mail and the helmet of an 18th-century Russian warrior.