E. D. Felitsyn Museum

The museum originates from the Kuban Military Ethnographic and Natural History Museum, founded in 1879 under the Kuban Statistical Committee of Local History and historian, Secretary of the Statistical Committee Yevgeny Dmitrievich Felitsyn.

Since 1977 - Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve (KGIAMZ). In 1990, the museum was named after its founder - E.D. Felitsyn.

The museum currently has four branches: Anapa Archaeological Museum and the world-famous monument of archaeology "Antic City of Gorgippia", Taman Museum Complex - Taman Archaeological Museum, archaeological monument "City of Hermonass-Tmutarakan" and House-Museum of the great Russian poet M.Y. Lermontov, Temryuk Historical and Archaeological Museum, Timashevsky Museum of the Stepanov family.

On the rights of departments, the museum includes: the Kuban Literary Museum and the Memorial Museum-Apartment of the People's Artist of the USSR G.F. Ponomarenko.

The museum has collections of paleontology, numismatics, ethnography, black-lac and red-lac ancient Greek ceramics, toreutics, samples of jewelry art of both masters of the past and modern jewelers, a collection of weapons from the Stone Age to the present, materials dedicated to the settlement in the XVIII century Kuban by Zaporozhye Cossacks. In the lapidarium of the museum there is one of the best collections of Polovtsian sculptures in the world.