Vereshchaginsky Museum and Cultural Center

About museum

The museum offers visitors a variety of programs, guided tours, workshops and events dedicated to the history and culture of the district.

The museum was established in 1985 under the name "Museum of Military and Komsomol Glory", and in 1991 was renamed "MUK 'Vereshchaginsky District Local History Museum'". In 2014 the museum received the status of MBUK 'Vereshchaginsky Museum and Cultural Center'. A distinctive feature of the museum is the presence of a unique complex of railway telegraph and semaphore instruments and other early 20th-century railway items, from N. P. Prozorov. The museum also houses an ethnographic collection obtained thanks to expeditions by Moscow State University (MSU). It contains items of the spiritual culture and everyday life of the Old Believers of the Vereshchaginsky district. In recent years a collection of television and radio equipment produced in the 1960s–1980s has been assembled. It tells about several periods of the district's history: the culture and faith of the Old Believers, Orthodoxy, the Soviet period, the founding and development of the town, the construction of the railway, and much more.