Isilkul District Historical and Local Lore Museum

Sixteen employees and four researchers are working on the preservation and development of the museum’s collection. The collection of the museum includes more than eleven thousand five hundred items, seven thousand eighty items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. In 1993, the management of the Omsk department of the Zap.Sib. railway transferred to the balance sheet of the district administration the buildings of the railway club, built in 1932. During 1994-1997, the building was reconstructed, its concept was developed jointly with the researchers of the Omsk SEC Museum. The museum houses: the history hall of the district, telling about its settlement and formation from 1752 to 1970, a hall, progeny and ecology, a memorial room dedicated to the life and work of the Honored ecologist of the Russian Federation V. S. Grebennikov, three exhibition halls in which the works of artists of the district and region, masters of applied art, thematic exhibitions dedicated to significant dates, outstanding people of the district are exhibited. The Isilkul District Museum of Local History operates in the form of a non-profit institution with a specialization in local history, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between participants. The Isilkul District Museum of Local History is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: cultural and research.