Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore

About museum

The local history museum in Saratov is one of the oldest museums in Russia. It was founded on December 12, 1886 under the Saratov Learned Archival Commission. By 1889 the museum's collections already included 144 exhibits donated by city institutions and residents. Today the museum holds over 400,000 exhibits that tell the story of the nature and history of Saratov Oblast from ancient times to the present day. Exhibition halls feature themes such as "City and People", "Natural Rarities", "Road to Space" and others. In the second half of the 20th century, 10 branches were incorporated into the museum, including the Saratov Ethnographic Museum, the Novouzensk Local History Museum, the Balakovo City History Museum, the Vasily Chapayev House-Museum, the Kalininsky, Arkadaksky, Krasnoarmeysky and Atkarsky local history museums, and the Samoylovsky and Marksovsky local history museums.

Museum features

Дата основания
December 12, 1886
Founder
Saratov Learned Archival Commission, Saratov Society of Naturalists
Посетители
141100
Единиц хранения
406747
Бюджетный статус
Subject of the Russian Federation
Классификация организации
non-profit institution
Предметы музея
Ethnographic clothing, household and labor items of the peoples of the Volga region: Russians, Mordvins, Chuvash, Tatars, Ukrainians, German colonists - 3,170 items. Archaeological collection: from the Paleolithic to the modern period (70,000 years BC – 17th–18th centuries) - 33,410 items in the main fund and 27,453 items in the scientific auxiliary fund. Cold weapons collection - about 200 items. Collection of cult objects of various religious confessions - 4,500 items. Collection of the only Hunger Museum in Russia (1921–1924) - about 1,000 items. Entomological collection of Professor N.L. Sakharov (1877–1945) - 8,714 items. Collection of socio-political and revolutionary movement of the late 19th – early 20th centuries - more than 700 items. Memorial collection of P.A. Stolypin, governor of Saratov (1903–1906) - 693 items. Poster collection, including from the periods of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War - 2,500 items. Highlights of the collections.
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Saratov Regional Museum of Local Lore
г. Саратов, ул. Лермонтова, 34.
г. Саратов, ул. Лермонтова, 34.
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