Museum of the History of Peasants named after A.M. Ronzhin

In 1972, a collective farm museum was opened for visitors. It was the only rural museum in the region, which was awarded the title of "People's" and twice (1984, 1989) confirmed it.

The main directions in the work of the museum are patriotic education of youth and environmental education.

The total number of items of the main and scientific and auxiliary funds is 10,231. Among them are objects of peasant life, archeology from the Kovrov settlement - one of the first ancient Russian settlements of the XII-XVI centuries on the Vyatka land.

The main part of the exposition is devoted to the history of the peasantry of Kotelnich district. The expositions of the museum give a visual idea of the life of the peasants of the Vyatka village, the history of the advanced farms of the district, its leaders. The decoration of the museum is the collection of wedding homespun towels, artistic miniatures of the Koretz family, winners of Russian exhibitions “Embroidered picture”.

The museum exhibits the works of graphic artists: People's Artist of the Russian Federation Arkady Kolchanov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Anatoly Nagovitsyn, photographers Anatoly Skurikhin and Nikolai Shilov. The material about noble countrymen, natives of Kotelnich land is presented. The museum contains a complex of exhibits about the People's Artist of the USSR A.V. Prokoshina, the first honorary citizen of the Kirov region, twice Hero of Socialist Labor A.D. Chervyakov, chairman of the collective farm "The Way of Lenin", about the initiator of the opening of the museum, the chairman of the collective farm "Iskra" A.M. Ronzhin.

To preserve the image of a man of labor of different years is the task of the museum.