Stavropol State Museum-Reserve

About museum

Stavropol State Museum-Reserve was founded on February 24, 1905 by the provincial statistical committee as a regional museum of the North Caucasus. It is located in the historic center of Stavropol, in the building of the former shopping rows, built in 1873 to a design by architect P. K. Nikiforov. The museum tour goes through seven halls and ends in the museum courtyard, where the lapidary exhibition "Messengers of former worlds of the Stavropol steppe and the foothills of the Caucasus" is presented. The basement also houses the exhibition "History of Stavropol: From the Past to the Future." The museum's main collection comprises more than 250,000 items, and the scientific-auxiliary collection more than 70,000 storage units. The exhibition provides a brief historical, socio-cultural and physical-geographical characterization of Stavropol. On January 1, 2012, the museum was granted the status of a state budgetary cultural institution of Stavropol Krai "Stavropol State Historical, Cultural and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve."