Slavic Museum of Local Lore

The main activities of the Slavic Museum of Local History:

• research and development,
• cultural and educational activities,
• acquisition of museum collections,
• creation of expositions and exhibitions,
• promotion and promotion of the historical and cultural heritage of the region.

The museum has one of the largest collections of ceramics in the field, thousands of items include ethnographic, archaeological, faleristic, numismatic and other collections. The museum has its own scientific library.

The exposition of the museum is represented by four main sections:

• Department of Nature: introduces the natural features of the region - relief, climate, geology, animal and plant world and more.
• The department of development of society from ancient times to 1917 is represented by archaeology from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, the period of settlement of the region, the emergence and formation of the city of Tora-Slavyansk, a separate exposition is devoted to merchants, life and ethnography of Sloboda Ukraine. During 2005 - 2006 the department conducted scientific and archaeological studies of the remains of the Torsk fortress of the 17th - 18th centuries.
• The Department of Society Development from 1917 to 1990 introduces the periods of the formation of Soviet power, the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars in the territory of the Slavic region, the restoration of the national economy, the socio-economic development of the city.
• Department of Modernity since 1991. - introduces the development of the public and private sectors of the economy, education, culture and sports, healthcare at the present stage.

The section "Slavic Ceramics" presents the main stages of the development of ceramic production in the Slavic region, modern technology for the manufacture of ceramic products, ceramic products, works of Slavic ceramics artists, materials of the All-Ukrainian ceramics symposiums in Slavyansk.