Makariev Museum of Local History

The Makariev Local History Museum opened in March 1959. Its founder was A.I. Shmakov, who on the basis of the city House of Pioneers with members of the local history circle began to collect various exhibits.

Currently, the museum is housed in a building that is an architectural monument of federal significance, built in 1806 as an administrative complex of the Presence Places.

The most interesting exhibitions:

• “The memory of the past the city keeps” (the history of the creation and development of the city);
• "Maestro Zharov" (about the composer, conductor, founder and regent of the famous Choir of Don Cossacks - S. A. Zharov);
• "UNZhLAG - an unknown island of the Gulag archipelago" (about the existence of a correctional labor camp on the territory of the Makarievsky district, part of the Gulag system).