Tula Regional Museum of Local History

About museum

Tula Regional Museum of Local History is the city's oldest museum, open since 1919. It houses one of the largest museum collections in the Tula Region, including natural science, archaeological, numismatic and ethnographic collections. The museum displays manuscripts and printed editions, photographic materials, documents, metal and glass objects, ceramics, porcelain, furniture and graphic works. After renovation in 2014, the halls opened to visitors include nature, Pershin hunting, ethnography, the urban life of Tula, the earliest history of the Tula region, archaeology, spirituality and culture, the military glory of Tula citizens, and Tula industries. The exhibition features authentic taxidermy from the estate of N. N. Romanov, finds made in the vicinity of Tula in the 1920s, a paleontological collection of the German firm F. Krantz, letters of the Decembrists, manuscript documents from the 16th-18th centuries, and awards of the participants in the defense of Tula. The museum has a souvenir shop and is equipped with ramps.