Puchezh Municipal Local History Museum

Puchezh Municipal Museum of Local Lore has been operating since 15.04. 1960. The team of the organization employs four employees and three researchers. The collection of the museum includes more than six thousand seven hundred and eighty items, five thousand one hundred and seventy items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The museum arose in connection with the transfer of the city due to the creation of the Gorky reservoir. The first exhibits appeared in 1953, the museum was opened as a public museum in 1955, and on April 15, 1960 it received the status of a state regional museum. Visitors are interested primarily in exhibits related to the history of the disappeared city, the model of the old Puchezh, his photos, household items, models of river vessels. The Puchezh Municipal Museum of Local Lore works in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between the participants. The Puchezh Municipal Museum of Local Lore is an organization of municipal subordination. The main activities of the museum: cultural and research.