Penza State United Local History Museum

The Penza Museum of Local History was founded on September 9, 1905 by members of the Penza Society of Natural History Lovers (POLE) as a natural history museum.

In 1924, it was renamed local history, created departments of archeology, ethnography, history. The museum also included a botanical garden, vivarium, observatory. From 1988 to 2004, the regional museum of local lore was the head in the association of state museums of local lore of the Penza region, which included 15 branches. From January 1, 2005, the branches were abolished and transformed into municipal museums and local history departments of municipal libraries.

Currently, the Penza State Museum of Local History on the rights of departments include: the Museum of V.O. Klyuchevsky, the Museum of I.N. Ulyanov, the Museum of N.N. Burdenko and the exhibition hall "Zolotarevskoe settlement". The collections of the museum number about 140 thousand museum objects. The special value and pride of the museum are the paleontological, archaeological, ethnographic collections and the fund of a rare book. Over the years of its existence, the museum has achieved significant success in research, gathering, exhibition, cultural and educational activities. On its basis, international, all-Union and all-Russian conferences, meetings and seminars were held, more than 70 monographs, books, collections of scientific works of various generations of museum employees, thousands of articles were published.