Lebedyansk Regional Museum

The Lebedyansk Museum of Local Lore is not a structural subdivision of the Lebedyan administration. The administration of the city settlement of Lebedyan is the founder of the museum.

Lebedyansk Museum of Local Lore was founded in the spring of 1919. His emergence and formation he owes to the scientist-historian P.N. Chermensky. In 1956, the museum in Lebedyan was closed, and its exhibits were transferred to the regional museum in Lipetsk. The revival of the museum in the city began in the late 1960s. The initiative group was headed by P.D. Alekseev. In November 1976, a recreated museum was opened in the building of the former secondary school No. 1 of the city, which was built in 1913, and P.D. Alekseev became its first director. Since 1979, the museum has been a branch of the Lipetsk Regional Museum of Local History. Today, the local history museum is a municipal cultural institution under the administration of the city of Lebedyan.

The museum has six halls, four of which present the history of the Lebed region from the Stone Age to the present day. The exposition contains authentic household items, documents, photographs, coins and bonds, archaeological finds on the territory of the region. The fifth and sixth rooms are exhibition halls. They host not only exhibitions of their museum funds and collections of individuals and family archives, but also various events for students, schoolchildren and adults of the city.

The museum has more than 10 thousand units of storage of the main fund. Many of the exhibits are selfless gifts of swans to the museum. The pride of the museum is the archive and library of one of the most famous researchers of the medieval history of the South of Russia P.N. Chermensky, as well as the fund of the outstanding writer - countryman E.I. Zamyatin, which includes lifetime publications, personal belongings, documents and others.

Employees conduct excursions around the museum, city and district, both review and thematic - "Literary Swan", "Orthodox Swan", "Architectural sights of the city", "Nature monuments".

The museum is located in the city center near the New Kazan Cathedral and the district administration building. Passage by all means of transport to the post stop.