Slavyansky Historical and Local History Museum

About museum

Slavyansky Historical and Local History Museum is one of the largest municipal museums in Kuban. It was founded in 1976 and was awarded the title of People's Museum in 1982. In 1993 the museum received the status of a Municipal Cultural Institution. Over the years it has grown and increased its exhibition space to 934 square meters, and its exhibition and display area amounts to 474 square meters. The museum houses more than 30,000 storage units, including archaeological and ethnographic collections, collections of rare books and items of religious cult, antique embroidered rushnyky (ritual towels), numismatics, bonistics (paper money collections), and works of painting, graphics, sculpture and decorative and applied arts. The main aim of the museum is the collection and preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of the Slavyansky District. The museum's exhibitions tell about the settlement of the interfluvial lands by the Cossacks, the floodplains prepared for rice cultivation, the development of collective and state farms (kolkhozes and sovkhozes), the immortal feat of the people of Slavyansk in World War II, and the nature of the Eastern Azov region.