Konosh District Museum of Local History

Konosh District Museum of Local Lore is one of the youngest museums in the Arkhangelsk region. It opened its doors on October 22, 2003, the 105th anniversary of Konoshi.

The museum conducts exhibition, scientific, cultural and leisure activities; collects, studies, preserves the history and culture of the Konosh district.

Currently, the museum has five permanent expositions: “The Railway is the Knot of Life of the Konosh District”, “In the Traces of the Lost Aircraft”, literary and household exposition “The History of the Norinskaya Village”, interactive museum exhibition platform “Museum Laboratory”, paleontological diorama “The Sea of Kazan on the Land of Arkhangelsk”.

The museum actively cooperates with immigrants from the Konosh district: artists, local historians, musicians and other talented people. To preserve the memory of fellow countrymen and their achievements, vernissages, local lore lectures, dialogues about art are organized. Together with search engines, annual expeditions to the crash sites in the Konosh district during the Great Patriotic War are organized, research and search work is carried out in the field of unaccounted military graves of Soviet soldiers.