Lytkarin Historical and Local Lore Museum

The museum was founded by a group of enthusiasts as a folk museum of local lore, designed to tell about the history of the city, life and life, crafts of our countrymen-lytkarins through traditions, local way of life, creativity of people who lived and now live in Lytkarino.

A large role in the creation of the museum belongs to Levitsky A.I., Strelikov S.P., the former first director of the museum Danshin P.S., a large initiative group of the scientific and artistic intelligentsia of the city, schoolchildren and many indigenous residents who enthusiastically responded and supported the idea of creating a museum.

The museum collection includes collections of paleontology, archaeology, objects of folk life, painting, including ancient Russian, numismatics, documents and photographic materials.

Since 1999, the city planetarium has been operating within the walls of the museum.

The paleontological collection of the museum contains the main forms of marine organisms from sedimentary deposits of the ancient seas of the Carboniferous and Jurassic periods, which in our area come to the surface.

Archaeological finds from settlements of the late Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, located on the territory of the modern suburbs, form the basis of the archaeological collection of the museum.

The main part of the ethnographic collection is village utensils used in the daily life of the Lytkarins of the late XIX - early XX centuries, tools of labor of a peasant, artisan, trader. Extremely interesting collected in the museum a variety of measuring instruments of the last century, many interesting exhibits in the collection of coal irons, collected and constantly replenished collection of samovars.

The collection of paintings and graphics is constantly replenished with the works of Lytkarin amateur and professional artists. Ancient Russian painting in the museum collection is represented by fourteen icons, one of which dates from the XVI-XVII century, the rest from the middle - the end of the XIX century.

The collection of folk art products includes interesting and diverse works of wood carver Khalikov B.G., wooden toys Tkachev A.M., tin miniatures of Ivanov A., etc.

The numismatic collection features coins minted by Russian monarchs and governments from 1700 to the present day.