Dmitriev State Museum of Local Lore named after A.F. Vangenheim

In 1919, at the Department of Public Education, a group of local intellectuals founded the Dmitriev Museum of Rodinology. The first director was Alexei Feodosevich Vangenheim, later the organizer and first head of the Unified Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR. The exhibits were collected by the museum staff, some donated by visitors and the investigative commission during the requisition of private property.

During the fascist occupation, the museum was completely destroyed, exhibits were looted and burned. It was reopened in 1946, the director was Mikhail Maximovich Gorbovtsev.

The funds of the modern museum are more than 25,000 items. The permanent exhibition occupies 6 rooms:

• "Past edges";
• "Ivan Surzhikov";
• "Animal and plant life";
• "Noble countrymen";
• "Pre-war five-year plans";
• "The Edge in the Years of War."

The spacious exhibition hall allows visitors to acquaint themselves with new collections.