Uzlovsky Art and Local History Museum

About museum

The Uzlovsky Local History Museum was first opened to the public on May 9, 1968. In 1971 it was granted state status. In 1987 S. P. Tkachev, People's Artist and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, helped open the first folk art gallery in the oblast. This allowed the museum to be transformed into an art and local history museum with a substantial collection of works by Soviet artists from the 1950s–1990s. The museum also operates a children's art school, as well as clubs for amateur artists and masters of decorative and applied arts. The museum serves as a methodological and organizational center for small community museums. It also hosts associations such as "Memorial", "Lenin and the Motherland", "Classics", the clubs "Old Drum", "Young Archaeologist", collectors, "Local Historian", "Literary Association", and others. The museum's collections consist of holdings devoted to the history of local enterprises, the biographies of famous compatriots, and an art gallery under the motto "Deeds and People of the Moscow Region".