Balezinsky District Historical and Local Lore Museum

The Balezinsky District Museum of Local History has been operating regularly since the ninth of May 2000. The team of the organization employs three employees and one researcher. The collection of the museum includes more than one thousand six hundred and twenty items, one thousand one hundred and fifty items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The beginning of the acquisition of the museum funds was laid in 1961, when the history teacher Shulyaev Demyan Nikolaevich created a local lore room at school No. 1 pos. Balesino. By the end of the 1990s, the status of a school museum was satisfied, and in the spring of 2000 it was decided to create a district municipal museum on its basis. After organizational and preparatory work, on July 5, 2000, a decree was issued by the head of the district administration on the establishment of BRIKM. The first permanent exhibition opened on May 9, 2000, on Victory Day. Currently, the museum has 3 permanent exhibitions: the Hall of Ethnography, the Hall of Military Glory, the Hall of Labor Glory. Planning to open the Ecology Hall. In 2001, 3 temporary exhibitions and about 100 different events were held - excursions, lectures, etc. The museum is an organizational and methodological center of local lore work in the area. The Balezinsky District Museum of Local History operates in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received among the participants. The Balezinsky District Museum of Local History is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.