Ust-Ilimsk Local History Museum

About museum

The museum attracts many visitors who can learn a great deal of interesting information about the city's history. The Ust-Ilimsk Local History Museum was opened in 1993. It contains information about the life and history of Ust-Ilimsk. The museum has seven halls: the nature hall, the ethnography hall, the modern history hall, the hall of military glory, the hall of naval glory, and two exhibition halls. Here you can see animals that live in the district's forests; objects that village residents used over the past 200–300 years; the history of major Komsomol construction projects; the stories of veterans of the Great Patriotic War (World War II); the history of the Russian fleet; and the renaming of ship No. 17 to "Ust-Ilimsk". The museum also displays decorative and applied arts by Ust-Ilimsk craftsmen. The museum attracts many visitors who can learn a great deal of interesting information about the city's history. The Ust-Ilimsk Local History Museum is an excellent place to learn more about the city and its history.