Vetluzhsky Local History Museum

About museum

\r\nThe Vetluzhsky Local History Museum is the first of the district museums in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, established by decree of the Vetluzhsky Revolutionary Military Council on October 28, 1918. The founder and first director of the museum was Ivan Ivanovich Razumov. In its early years the museum was primarily educational and consisted of several rooms. In 1930 the museum was reoriented toward local history. The museum presents exhibitions devoted to the animal and plant life of the Vetluzhsky area, the archaeological past of the region, the everyday life of local peasants, Orthodoxy in Vetluga, the people of Vetluga during World War I and the period of Soviet rule in the Vetluzhsky uyezd. In the exhibition hall one can see household items of the local nobility as well as various objects that came to the museum from former estates and landlords' houses. The museum also hosts art exhibitions and various events.