Belogorsk Museum of Local Lore named after N.G. Yelcheninov

Belogorsk Museum of Local Lore has been operating since 16.10.1961. The team of the organization employs nine employees and three researchers. The collection of the museum includes more than seventeen thousand seven hundred items, twelve thousand seven hundred items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The date of foundation of the Belogorsk Local History Museum is considered to be 1953. On the basis of the museum of school No. 3 of the city of Kuibyshevka-East, the school geographical society "Globe" was formed. At the same time, a museum was opened on the second floor of the school. In 1960, the founder of the museum N.G. Yelchaninov at the anniversary session dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the city, the exhibits were transferred to the city for the creation of the city museum. The opening of the city museum took place on October 16, 1961 in the building of the House of Pioneers (now a music school). In 1982, the museum moved to an attached room to the house on Kirova St. 117, where it is currently located. Since Kuibyshevka-Vostochnaya in 1957 was renamed Belogorsk, the museum became known as the Belogorsk Museum of Local Lore on a voluntary basis. In December 1980, by order of the MK of the RSFSR, the museum was awarded the title of People’s Museum. Since 1987, the People's Museum of Belogorsk has become a branch of the Amur Regional Museum of Local Lore named after G.S. Novikov-Daursky. One of the main directions of its activity is the acquisition of funds. The museum has five exhibition halls. Most visitors are attracted by the hall "flora and fauna of the Amur region". The exposition "Civil War in the Amur Region 1918-1920" is also very interesting, where, on the basis of documents, diagrams, diagrams, material sources, the conquest and establishment of Soviet power in the Amur Region and in our city is told. An integral part of the work of the museum is exhibition activities. Thematic stationary exhibitions are held monthly. The subjects of exhibitions are diverse: from new arrivals to exhibitions of decorative and applied arts. In 2000, the museum acquired the status of a legal entity. In 2005, a new hall "Combat and Labor Glory" was opened, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. In the same year, the museum is merged with the "Gallery of Arts" Belogorsk Museum of Local Lore works in the form of a non-profit institution with specialization in the field of local history, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activities the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit between the participants. The Belogorsk Museum of Local Lore is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: cultural and mass, research and educational. In addition to the main exhibition and research of phonods, educational programs are held in the museum.