Museum-Reserve "Dmitrov Kremlin"

The Dmitrov Kremlin Museum-Reserve is a young cultural institution, its age is less than a hundred years. This is a multifunctional cultural complex, which is engaged in the study and popularization of the history of Dmitrov and Dmitrov district, as well as the center of exhibition, educational and scientific activities.

The museum-reserve began in 1915 with the decision to create the Museum of Cooperation and the Museum of goods of local crafts and industries. Gradually, interest in local history manifested itself, and the task of studying and preserving the history of the region came to the fore. Gradually, the museum is expanding, active gathering, exhibition, educational work is conducted. Since November 12, 1923, the museum of the Dmitrov region became known as the State Demonstration Museum of the local region and switched to financing from the state budget. A few years later, the museum occupies the buildings and premises of the Borisoglebsky monastery. In 1992, the territory of the Dmitrov settlement was declared a protected area.

The museum collection was formed in the 1920s from objects collected in ethnographic expeditions, works of fine, decorative and applied, temple and folk art, as well as objects of manor life. In the funds and exposition of the museum there are unique documents, film and photographic materials. The Kremlin itself with the Assumption Cathedral, surrounded by an earthen rampart, is a monument of defense architecture of the 12th-16th centuries.