Local History Museum of Pushkin

The museum promotes the history of the former Tsarskoye Selo - the main summer imperial residence of tsarist Russia, an exemplary city in terms of improvement, as well as in terms of the introduction of technical achievements (passenger railway, electricity, sewage treatment plants, a powerful radio station, etc.).

Pushkin Museum of Local Lore is open to visitors in the building, which is an architectural monument. It was built by Vasily Petrovich Stasov in the early nineteenth century, in 1824. The architect Silvio Danini built the third floor. The main excursions offered by the local history museum are devoted to: the author of the project, Vladimir Nikolaevich Maksimov, the creator of the Fedorovsky town, the reflection of the Tsar’s village in the poetry of the Silver Age, the military town of the Sofia district, the history of the 1st Tsarskoye Selo detachment of young scouts (scouts), the participation of the residents of Pavlovsk and Pushkin in the Great Patriotic War, the main suburban square, the royal village estates, and literary places of the town. More than sixteen thousand items of exhibits are included in the collection of the museum, the collection of architectural sketches by Vladimir Maksimov is about twenty units.