Essentuki City Museum of Local Lore named after V.P. Shpakovsky

Essentuki Museum of Local History was founded in 1963 and bears the name of its creator - veteran teacher V.P. Shpakovsky. For 15 years the museum was national, and in 1978, after winning the regional review of folk museums, it became state. He has 30,000 storage units in his fund.

The museum has two exhibition halls. More than 20 exhibitions a year acquaint visitors with the creative works of artists of the south of Russia, folk masters, as well as traveling exhibition projects from the funds of other museums. The museum is located in the historical center of the city, in a two-storey mansion built in the late nineteenth century by the priest of the Nikolaev Church Dmitry Yakovlevich Karagachev.