Staritsa Local History Museum

About museum

In 1919 the Staritsa Museum was opened in the rector's building of the Staritsa Assumption (Uspensky) Men's Monastery. Evgeny Alexandrovich Klodt, the grandson of the famous Russian sculptor Pyotr Karlovich Klodt, actively participated in this project. During the Great Patriotic War the museum was looted, and in 1954 it was closed. All post-war exhibits were transferred to the Tver Regional Museum of Local Lore and the Tver Regional Art Gallery. In 1975 the museum was revived as a branch of the Tver State United Museum and was housed in the building of the Vvedenskaya Church of the Assumption Monastery. In 1997 the Assumption Monastery became active again, so in 2008 a new building for the museum was constructed. The museum's exhibition presents materials on the Time of Troubles, on the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Job, on the reforms of Catherine II, as well as on the Staritsa nobility, urban life in Staritsa in the 19th–early 20th centuries, municipal administration, trade, everyday life, culture and education.