Museum and Local Lore Center "House of G.S. Batenkov"

Museum "House of G.S. Batenkov" received its first visitors in 2010.

Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov is known as a hero of the war of 1812 and a participant in foreign campaigns of the Russian army, as a communications engineer who was engaged in the construction of roads and bridges in Siberia, who built the Angara embankment in Irkutsk.
Publicist, poet, philosopher, man of encyclopedic knowledge, who served A.A. Arakcheev and M.M. Speransky, G.S. Batenkov, left a noticeable mark in the political and cultural life of Russia.In Kaluga G.S. Batenkov lived 7 years after the amnesty of the Decembrists and return from Siberian exile.

From 2012 to 2016, the exposition of the museum was devoted to the events of the war of 1812, and from August 24, 2016, a new exposition dedicated to the 240th anniversary of the Kaluga province began its work. The exposition also presents memorial items of G.S. Batenkov.

The wooden building built in the first half of the XIX century was bought by the Decembrist G.S. Batenkov from the homeowner Efimova in 1857. He spent the last seven years of his life there.

In the XX century, communal apartments were located in the building, and only thanks to the painstaking work of local historians and descendants of the pupil G.S. Batenkov, the house was preserved and transferred to the local history museum. During the restoration of the house, its area increased due to the extension, which is part of a multi-storey house that occupied the territory of the former estate of G.S. Batenkov.

The museum is open without lunch:

Tuesday-Sunday from 9-30 to 18-00 .

Saturday from 11:00 to 19:00.

The day off is Monday.

The last Wednesday of the month is a sanitary day.