Malopurginsky District Museum of Local Lore

Malopurga District Museum of Local Lore has been operating since the third of November 2000. Two employees and one researcher are working on the preservation and development of the museum collection. The collection of the museum includes more than one thousand five hundred and ten items, one thousand one hundred and sixty items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The museum was founded by order of the head of administration on March 4, 1998. It is located in the district library building. Items and documents on the history of the district, participants of the Great Patriotic War, local wars are collected. In 2009, documents and leaflets from 1918 were found. A wealth of material has been accumulated on the history of agriculture, education, and healthcare. A book has been published on materials. The museum funds store personal belongings of the hero of the Soviet Union Zakir Sultanov, commander of a partisan detachment in the Belarusian forests Ivn Ocheev. There is a collection of portraits of war veterans made by an amateur artist for the 40th anniversary of the Victory. The exposition "Revived Antiquity" presents items of "antiquities" made by schoolchildren from birch bark and wood Malopurginsky District Museum of Local Lore works in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activities the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit between participants. Malopurga District Museum of Local Lore is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.