Pechora Museum of Local History

The Pechora Museum of Local History arose as a public museum thanks to a group of enthusiasts led by local historian Peter Ivanovich Terentyev. On June 29, 1975, the public museum was opened to visitors. Since 2001, the museum has been developing new areas of work related to project activities and the use of digital technologies, working in the international project Virtual Museum of the Gulag of the Russian Memorial Society.

The most interesting collections of the museum are household items and ethnography of the Middle Pechora; the collection of the Byzov Paleolithic Parking Site, handwritten and old-printed books; items related to Old Believers in Middle Pechora, a complex of items of participants of the Great Patriotic War. Of particular value is the unique archive of documents of the agricultural camp "Cedar Shore" Pechora district 40-50-ies. Museum staff conduct excursions and lectures, game programs and quizzes, competitions, holidays and vernissages, actions and presentations, master classes and meetings, organize interactive zones.