Kursk State Regional Museum

The museum in Kursk was established on April 23, 1903 under the Kursk provincial archival commission on the initiative and with the active participation of the Kursk governor N. Gordeev. On January 18, 1905, the museum received its first visitors. In the first year, the museum was visited by 5,600 people. Now the museum and its branches are visited by more than 120 thousand people. The exposition of the museum is located in three departments: nature, history of the pre-revolutionary period, history of Soviet society and modernity. It reflects the natural features of the region, its past and present. The theme of the historical past, the theme of the Great Patriotic War, the Battle of Kursk are widely disclosed. The collections of the museum have been formed since its opening by purchasing items in antique shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg, at the expense of gifts from private individuals, proceeds from nationalized noble estates, archaeological, ethnographic, natural history and complex expeditions. Currently, the museum stores more than 170 thousand museum items, many of which are rare - unique collections: ancient beads, porcelain, art metal, ancient weapons, paintings, items of ancient Russian art, ethnography and Kursk life - old furniture, festive peasant clothes. More than 12 thousand items include a collection of rare books, more than 20 thousand - numismatics, including rare Russian and foreign coins, coin hoards. The photo documentary fund on the history of the Kursk Territory is of great value. The museum is the center of research, scientific-educational, scientific-methodical work on museum and local history work of the Kursk region. The museum has 15 branches: the museum "KP of the Central Front" in Svoboda, Zolotukhinsky district, the museum "Young Defenders of the Motherland" in Kursk, 13 regional museums.