Kurgan Regional Museum of Local Lore

The museum was founded on November 10, 1951, the opening day of the first exhibition. For 40 years, the museum was located in the building of the Alexander Nevsky Church, from 1991 to the present time it occupies the building of the former House of Political Education.

In 2011, the planetarium reopened for visitors, which appeared in Kurgan in 1957.

The museum has about 200,000 exhibits, 40 museum collections. It is the largest repository of historical, cultural and natural science collections in the region.

Currently, the museum has permanent expositions of the departments of history and nature, thematic exhibitions are held.

Since 2003, on the initiative of the Museum and Kurgan State University in Kurgan, the annual scientific and practical conference "Zyryanovsk Readings" has been held, which since 2006 has the status of all-Russian.

Along with traditional forms of work, the museum staff actively practice interactive and combined excursions with master classes and elements of theatricalization, quest excursions, as well as virtual exhibitions.