Marx Museum of Local History

It was founded in 1987 as a public museum of K. Marx and F. Engels. In April 1991 it acquired the status of the Marx Museum of Local History and became a branch of the Saratov Regional Museum of Local History.

The museum is located in a separate two-storey brick mansion, built in the early twentieth century. It was in this building since 1919 that the first national state museum of the Volga German Republic was located. Currently, the collection of the museum has more than 6 thousand items of storage. Of particular value is the collection of items of ethnography, which allows you to widely represent the occupations, crafts, crafts and various aspects of life of Ekaterinenstadt (Baronsk). This settlement of German colonists-craftsmen on the Volga after 1917 received the status of a city.

The collection includes carpentry, carpentry, blacksmith tools. Part of the exhibits is devoted to the dramatic history of the deportation of Volga Germans and the history of the city during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

There is a permanent exhibition "Flora and Fauna of the Marxovsky District". The exhibition hall exhibits thematic and art exhibitions, works of amateur authors. The museum has a film lecture hall where numerous clubs work. Concerts, master classes, subscription classes are held for all age groups of the population. The museum is one of the most attractive cultural, educational and leisure centers of the city of Marx. The annual attendance of the museum is about 15-16 thousand people.