Museum-Reserve of Narovchatsky District

The Museum of History and Ethnography is located in the building of a historical and architectural monument of the early XIX century, built according to the exemplary project of the famous Russian architect A.D. Zakharov. Until Soviet times, there were places here.

The museum was opened in 1925. The collection of funds was attended by well-known scientists-archaeologists M.E. Foss, A.A. Krotkov, A.E. Polessky, historian A.A. Heraclitov, mining engineer A.A. Stukenberg, etc. Gradually, the museum was formed as a historical and local history, it appeared departments of nature and history.

The archaeological collection of the museum covers the time from the Neolithic era to the XVII century; the numismatic collection presents coins of the XIV-XX centuries. The exposition of the museum contains objects of ethnography and life: documents, photographs, autographed books and lifetime editions of writers-countrymen, objects of fine art, exhibits telling about the occupations of the local population, crafts.

The Department of Nature acquaints visitors with the geographical location, geology, relief, minerals, soil and climatic conditions, animal and plant world of the region, the tasks of nature protection in the area. Especially interesting are local exhibits of the Cretaceous period, the remains of animals of the Ice Age - mammoth, archar, stuffed animals of the modern forest. Here are widely represented feathered local fauna.

To date, more than 12,000 exhibits are stored in the museum funds.