Troitsky Historical and Local Lore Museum

About museum

The museum opened to visitors on June 22, 1993. Ten years earlier, a local history club had been created by community activists led by Kalinichenko Natalya Pavlovna. For several years the local historians carried out extensive research, gathered information about the settlement's history, recorded recollections, and assembled albums. From 1990 to 1993, even before the museum opened, the local historians compiled four 'Books of Memory' about participants of the Great Patriotic War and home-front workers. These books of communal memory became the first exhibits of the newly opened museum. Since its opening it has become not only a place to encounter the region's history, objects of everyday life, and photographs of ancestors, but also a meeting place for locals, gatherings of war and labor veterans, and a venue for supplementary education for the district's students. From the first years various museum collections were formed. The museum's calling card became the collection of household textiles and clothing. Over 27 years a huge amount of work has been done to study and document the collection. Popular-science publications in the 'Folk Textile' series were issued, and a cycle of lectures, talks, and master classes on folk costume, textiles, and embroidery was created. A scientific-exhibition project 'Costume as an object, a sign of the time and of national affiliation of the peoples of the Urals' was developed. The museum collection now totals about 6,500 items across various collections. Natural history, household textiles, numismatics, ceramics, porcelain — this is by no means a complete list of the museum's treasures.