Kamyshin Historical and Local Lore Museum

The Kamyshinsky Museum of Local History is located in the building of the Zemsky Council, built in 1901 by the project of architect A.T. Timofeev. In 2009, the architectural monument “Zemsky House” took first place in the competition “Pearl of the Volgograd region”.

Today, the Kamyshin Museum of Local History stores and presents to its guests more than 60 thousand different museum items on more than 1,500 square meters of expositions. Already in the first halls of the museum, the visitor discovers the secrets of the relict mountains, called “Ears”, located in the vicinity of Kamyshin.

About the dramatic events of the period of appearance of the serfs on the river Kamyshinka tell the halls dedicated to the history of the city. You can find out what role the Dmitrievsky regiment arrived from Kazan on the order of the tsar played in the history of the city and hear the legend of the Kamyshinsky watermelon.

The exposition about the Great Patriotic War tells about the facts and events, the participants of which were Kamyshyn people and those whose life and work are connected with the city. Photos, documents and things tell about people who bore on their shoulders the brunt of the war against fascism both at the front and in the rear.

Revolutions and civil war, the political, economic, cultural life of the city, region and other events of the twentieth century are told by the other halls of the main exposition of the museum.