Verkhnepyshminsky Historical Museum

About museum

In 1989 the Verkhnepyshminsky Historical Museum received state status and became a branch of the Sverdlovsk State Regional Historical and Local Lore Museum. Since 2006 the museum has been a municipal cultural institution, and in 2014 the museum was converted to the status of a budgetary institution. Today the museum is a cultural and scientific center uniting a complex of museum collections and items related to the historical and socio-cultural development of the territory of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma urban district. A rich body of material on the history, ethnography, economy, culture and nature of our region allows the development and implementation of important socio-cultural projects for various age groups. The museum holds unique collections: archaeological, ethnographic, visual sources and numismatics from the 17th century to the present day. The Verkhnepyshminsky Historical Museum covers the history of the development of non-ferrous metallurgy in the Urals from ancient times to the present, the gold-panning industry of the 19th–20th centuries, and the history of the development of copper-smelting production in the territory of the Verkhnyaya Pyshma urban district.