Samara Regional Historical and Local Lore Museum named after P.V.Alabin

Samara Regional Museum of Local History named after P.V. Alabin is one of the oldest museums of the Volga region. It currently has several buildings. The main specialized building, the former Samara branch of the Central Museum of Lenin, was built in 1989. It has 2,500 square meters of exposition and exhibition space, a film lecture hall for 270 people, a library with a reading room. Here are the main exposition of the museum, storage rooms for collections, an art workshop, a photo salon, a cafe for 40 seats, a museum store and an information center.

More than 205,000 people visit the museum every year. More than 180,000 museum items are stored in the funds. The museum has rich archaeological, natural science collections (paleontological, mineralogical, zoological, botanical), expressive historical, household and ethnographic collections. The numismatic collection, collections of a rare book of the XVIII-XIX centuries, documents of the XVIII-XX centuries, cold and firearms of Russia, as well as countries of the West and East (XIV-XX centuries) are interesting. In the main building of the museum, expositions on the nature of the region “From the sea lizard to the steppe marmot” and “Four tables” are especially interesting. The life circle of the peoples of the Middle Volga”.