Bagan District Museum of Local Lore

The Bagan District Museum of Local Lore was founded on the basis of the district House of Pioneers in 1971. In August 1981, a regional museum of local lore was founded. The first exhibits were items transferred from the House of Pioneers, as well as finds that were discovered by an archaeological expedition in 1980-1981 in ancient burials in the Bolshelukovsky burial mounds in the district.

Currently, the museum has more than 8,000 exhibits of the main and scientific and auxiliary fund. Collections of documents, painting, graphics, sculpture, applied art, life and ethnography, numismatics, archaeology and technology, telling about the combat and labor path of fellow countrymen, the history of enterprises and organizations. Rich material was accumulated during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. On the basis of the collected material, open and operating halls: archaeological, Great Patriotic War, modernity, nature, lecture and exhibition.

Permanent expositions of the museum are “The Establishment of Soviet Power”, “Peasant Hut”, “Linseeds”, “Objects of Labor and Life”. For visitors there are survey and thematic excursions, lectures, museum lessons, exhibitions, events, meetings. Every year on May 9, the Museum hosts an Open Doors Day dedicated to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In 2015, the exposition “Letters from the Front” was presented, which made it possible to read genuine letters from fellow countrymen. The museum takes part in the international action “Night of Museums”.