Solikamsk Museum of Local History
About the company:
The museum was opened in 1929 as a local history branch. On its basis in the 1930s it was supposed to create a complex of museums: a museum of potash industry, an anti-religious museum, a historical and revolutionary museum. In 1938, the museum was closed and again became operational in 1947, already as a local history museum. Today the museum is housed in 23 buildings. It includes 4 branches: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Old Russian Art, the Museum of Nature, the Museum of the History of Salt of Russia.
The museum is located in cultural monuments of federal significance: the Trinity Cathedral of the XVII century, the Epiphany Church of the XVII century, the house of the voivode of the XVII century, the Cathedral Bell Tower of the XVIII century, the Ust-Borovsk salt plant of the XIX century.