Sharkan Local History Museum

The museum was founded in 1997. The first exposition was opened in June 1998 in honor of the 320th anniversary of Sharkan village. Until 2001, they worked on organizing various exhibitions. On December 12, 2001, an exposition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Grigory Egorovich Vereshchagin - a singing Udmurt scientist, ethnographer, folklorist, poet, public figure was opened. His work was interested in Finnish scientists W. T. Sirelius, J. Wichmann; Hungarian scientists P. Domokos, B. Munkaci. For his monographic essays on Votyaks of the Sosnovsk Territory and Sarapulsky district of the Vyatka province, he was awarded a silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society, a scientific center for the study of ethnography of the peoples of Russia.