Shumyach Art and Local Lore Museum

The Shumyach Art and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1991. It is a repository of monuments of material and spiritual culture of the Shumyach region. The museum consists of two halls - art and local lore.

The art hall exhibits paintings of the artist, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, a native of Kiryakinka Shumyachsky district Fedor Savvich Shurpin.

The local lore hall consists of three departments: “History and Ethnography of the District”; “History of the District during the Great Patriotic War”; “Department of the Modern Period”. The expositions present archaeological objects found in the area, tools, clothes, household items, authentic photos and documentary materials, rare and valuable relics associated with the life and work of famous countrymen. There is in the museum and an autograph of the world-famous science fiction writer, author of more than 500 books, a native of D. Petrovich Shumyachsky district Isaac Asimov.