The creative activity of man, craft, architecture and everyday life are indissoluble parts of a single whole, called the culture o …
The museum complex was inaugurated on May 8, 1975 on the site of battles of units of the 43rd Army, including cadets of the Podols …
The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts is the largest art collection in the Kaluga Territory. It was opened in 1918, and in 1969 the museu …
The regional art gallery "Image" appeared quite recently, in 1994. It is a fast-growing and highly mobile institution. Every year …
The State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga, the first in the world and the larges …
Tarutin Military Historical Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812 was opened in 1962 on a voluntary basis. In 1969 it became a branc …
Military Historical Museum "Zaitsev Gora" was opened on May 9, 1972, in 1982 the re-exposition was carried out, and since 1995 the …
In 1970, in Ulyanov, in one of the most remote rural areas of the Kaluga region, a folk art gallery was opened on the initiative o …
The museum-reserve "Towel Factory" was opened on June 4, 1999. “Towel Factory” is a unique manor and factory architectural complex …
Ugra National Park was founded on February 10, 1997. It stretches for 200 kilometers through the entire Kaluga region, its territo …
The museum has been in existence since August 2013. The profile is a historical and local history museum, the main activities: exc …
The house-museum of A.L. Chizhevsky, an outstanding Soviet biophysicist, founder of aeroionification, heliobiology and electrohema …
Museum "House of G.S. Batenkov" received its first visitors in 2010. Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov is known as a hero of the war o …
The Tarutino Military Historical Museum dates back to 1962. The first years of the museum, created by Sinelshchikov V.Y. (1907-198 …
The Military Historical Memorial and Museum was opened on May 9, 1980. The project of the memorial was created by the architect E. …
The Museum of the Three Queens in Meshchovsk was opened in September 2015. The museum is located on the picturesque bank of Turei' …
Chamber Korobov - a monument of civil architecture v. floor. XVII century. The building of the Chambers attracts attention with it …
The Kremenki Memorial Museum is dedicated to the great feat of our people who defended Moscow during the Great Patriotic War. Krem …
The museum dedicated to the famous Soviet military commander General Efremov was opened on June 22, 2002. In the spring of 1942 …
The museum and local lore complex "Toll City of Borovsk" is located on the main square of the historical city of Borovsk - Lenin S …
At the corner of Pushkin and Bauman streets there is a 3-storey mansion built in the late XVIII century for the merchant Ivan Gala …
The museum exposition includes the following sections: Demidov period; History of development of Maltsovo district; The life of lo …
The memorial historical, architectural and natural museum-reserve “Tolotny Zavod” was opened on June 4, 1999, to the 200th anniver …
The museum was opened on October 4, 1992. - in the year of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet M.I. Tsvetaeva. Work on …
The history of the Yukhnovsky District Museum of Local History dates back to 1963. For the 20th anniversary of the liberation of t …
The Museum of Marshal Zhukov is located in a specially designated building, built by the architect Kireev in 1960. The total area …
The Provincial Historical Museum was formed by members of the Kaluga Scientific Archival Commission and opened to visitors in 1897 …
Kaluga is a city where history, science and folk traditions are intertwined in live museum expositions. Here you can go from crafts and peasant life to large-scale topics about the defense of the Fatherland and the conquest of space. The city attracts interesting travelers who are looking for meaningful routes and deep excursions to places that have left a noticeable mark in Russian culture and science.
There are various museums in Kaluga: Museum of Crafts, Architecture and Life tells about everyday life and folk crafts; Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the world’s first and Russia’s largest museum of cosmonautics with unique rocket models, archival documents and exhibits related to the early space program. The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts holds the largest art collection of the region, and the Regional Picture Gallery Image demonstrates modern regional practices. Military-historical complexes and memorials, such as the Ilyinsky Frontiers, Tarutino, Zaitseva Gora, Tarutinsky Museum of 1812, Kremenki and Nameless Height, allow you to experience the pages of military history and see rare front artifacts. In the vicinity there are museum and manor complexes and reserves: the museum-reserve of the Polotny Plant with a unique manor and factory architecture, the Ugra National Park with natural routes and ethnographic objects, as well as small but soul museums - the house-museum of A.L. Chizhevsky, the Museum of Georgi Zhukov, the Museum of Dolls of Berekinya in the village of Kozlov, the Museum of the Three Queens in Meshchovsk, the Museum and Local History Complex The Metropolitan City of Borovsk and the Taruss Museum of the Tsveta family. These places give a wide range of topics for excursions: from art and science to local history and folk traditions.
The museum life of Kaluga is active and diverse: many institutions participate in all-Russian actions and conduct their own programs. Military-historical museums traditionally hold commemorative events to the dates of the Great Patriotic War and on Victory Day - a number of expositions are timed to May 9, because some museums were opened on these significant days, for example, the Ilyinsky Frontiers on May 8, 1975 or the Unnamed Height memorial, opened on May 9, 1980. The Plant celebrates its history since June 4, 1999, and the creation of the Ugra National Park dates back to February 10, 1997 - all these dates are accompanied by thematic exhibitions and anniversary programs. In addition, mobile exhibitions from major museums regularly come here, temporary art and popular science projects take place, so it is worth watching the poster and planning a visit according to the event calendar.
Come to Kaluga to traverse rich museum routes and discover unexpected facets of Russian heritage. Schedule excursions with local guides - private guides will select the best routes, tell live stories, help get to the best temporary exhibitions and save time in queues. Booking an excursion in advance will make your trip to the Kaluga region deeper and more memorable, and the combination of visiting city museums and nearby reserves will turn the trip into a real discovery.
