People's Historical and Local Lore Museum of Tatarsk

MBUK “Historical and Local Lore Museum named after N.Y. Savchenko” is a center of civic and patriotic education of young people. The museum opened its doors to visitors on July 5, 1985. Over the years, it was visited by more than 456 thousand people. More than 2,580 donors have added to the museum’s fund, which currently stands at 37,423 exhibits. The library of the museum has 3 thousand volumes of memoir, documentary and fiction. The museum consists of two buildings: the main building and the demonstration area. The main building houses expositions reflecting the history of the city, the district, the hard years of the Great Patriotic War. There are expositions dedicated to Heroes of Socialist Labor, Heroes of the Soviet Union, honorary and honored citizens of the city and district - doctors, teachers, builders, agricultural workers.

On the demonstration site there are military and rare equipment available in the museum. This: An-2 aircraft, T-34 tank, locomotive. A worthy place in the expositions is occupied by: BM-13 - the famous "Katyusha" based on ZIL-157, GAZ-AA vehicles (half), ZIS-5 (three-ton), GAZ-67, armored personnel carrier, DT-54 tractor, Universal tractor, field soldier's kitchen, etc.

In 2001, the museum became a diploma winner of the “Window to Russia” contest. Experts of the competition made it one of the best museums in Russia. In the region, the museum is valued as a unique repository of history, it is included in the "Golden Book of Culture of the Novosibirsk Region" in the nomination "Institution of the Year "Golden Light of the Heart".