Sterlitamak Historical and Local Lore Museum

About museum

The museum is the city's oldest cultural institution, located in its historic center in the former branch of the Siberian Merchants' Bank. Visitors can see the halls of the city's pre-revolutionary history, nature, ethnography, mineralogy and numismatics. The museum regularly hosts exhibitions by local artists, and conducts consultative, educational and scientific-research activities. In summer, comprehensive expeditions are carried out across Bashkortostan. A military-historical club also operates at the museum. Its collections contain more than 30,000 items, stored in the depository and several exhibition halls. Residents and visitors can learn about materials related to different historical periods, fields and human activities. In the collections of archaeology, numismatics, antiquarian books, ethnography and other sections, geological and paleontological collections occupy a prominent place.