Sasovo Local History Museum

About museum

The Sasovo Local History Museum was opened in 1990. It presents materials that allow one to understand the past and present of the Sasovo region, its nature and culture. The museum's collection includes more than one hundred canvases by Russian and Soviet painters. The museum's branches include the Literary-Memorial House-Museum of A. S. Novikov-Priboy, the House-Museum of composer A. P. Averkin in the village of Shaftorka, and the A. P. Averkin Museum of Russian Song. In total, the museum's holdings comprise 5,960 items. There are collections of painting, graphics, sculpture, objects related to the history of technology, decorative and applied arts, numismatics, archaeology, ethnography, written sources, and a natural science collection. Particularly noteworthy are the collections of painting of the 20th–21st centuries and decorative and applied arts, which include unique works by a master of Fedoskino lacquer miniature and by N. M. Soloninkina. There are also collections of samovars from the 19th–20th centuries, and numismatics (coins of Russia from the 10th–21st centuries and from foreign countries). The museum has a large collection of photographs, including images from the late 19th — early 20th century.