Hungarian District Museum of Local Lore named after P.M. Ponomarenko

The museum was founded in 1978 and received its first visitors on November 7, 1979. By the decree of the head of the administration of the Hungarian district of October 24, 1994, it was renamed in honor of the founder of the museum P.M. Ponomarenko.

The fund includes 8,605 items of the main fund and 7,056 items of the scientific and support fund. The museum has 6 exhibition halls. Existing expositions: “Nature of the Vengerovsky district”, “Paleolith”, “Neolithic”, “Epoch of Bronze”, “Epoch of Iron”, “Ust-Tartas Outpost”, “Archaeological monuments in the district”, “Occupation of the area in the XVIII – early XX century”, “Moscow tract”, “Siberian hut”, “Stands village on the road”, “For the power of the Soviets”, “The period of formation”, “Fiery versts of war”, “From Afghanistan to Chechnya”, “The founder of the Museum of P.Vennomarenko” and others.

Significant collections: Numismatics, Archaeology, Ethnography, Documents, Rare Books. The most interesting exhibits: objects of archeology - the skull of a rhino, the horns of a giant deer, bronze products, vessels of Bolsherech and Kulai cultures; items of ethnography - a cargo arc, a whole-carving bucket, leg shackles, a peak of Siberian partisans; documents - recipes of the Spassky pharmacy, the Spassky rural hospital (1913-1919), the certificate of the shooter of the imperial regiment E. Chervyakov of 1909.

The museum is located in a two-storey wooden building (the former house of merchant D. Kochugov), built in the second half of the XIX century.