Kuraginsky Museum of Local Lore

The museum was founded in Kuraginskaya eight-year school in September 1964. Later, an additional room for the museum was added to the school, and in 1969 it became the District People's Museum of Local History. Currently, the Kuraginsky District Museum of Local Lore is located in part of the building of the former merchant’s trading house, gold miner Nikolai Pavlovich Pashennyh.

The funds store more than 23,500 items of all historical periods of development of the Kuraginsky district, a lot of photo documentary material, unique and rare items of the XIX century. The main fund includes more than 17,700 items of storage and is represented by collections of various nature and properties: painting, graphics, sculpture, archaeology, numismatics, decorative and applied arts and life, natural-scientific collection and others.

At the present stage, the museum does not have a permanent exhibition, but conducts intensive exhibition activities. It offers lectures, sightseeing and thematic excursions, museum lessons, interactive programs, walking and bus excursions, temporary, traveling exhibitions, expositions both from the museum fund and from the funds of other museums, private collections.