Trans-Baikal Regional Museum of Local History named after A.K. Kuznetsov

Trans-Baikal Regional Museum named after A.K. Kuznetsov is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East. For more than a century, the museum is the largest center of the spiritual life of the city and the region.

More than 190 thousand monuments of natural history, material and spiritual culture are concentrated in the museum collection. Here are kept unique collections on archaeology, ethnography, characterizing the ancient culture of the inhabitants of Transbaikalia, economic structure, religion, art of the indigenous and Russian population. The museum has significant collections of documentary monuments covering the period of XVIII-XX centuries.

The museum funds contain manuscripts of Decembrists, famous public figures of Transbaikalia of the second half of the XIX - early XX century. Collections of documentary and material monuments on the history of Soviet society and current problems of our time are of scientific interest. A significant collection is represented by numismatic items: art and commemorative medals, orders, signs, tokens, coins. The art collection is represented by paintings, porcelain products, sculpture, objects of decorative and applied art.