Uryupin Museum of Local Lore

The museum is located in a two-storey mansion built at the end of the XIX century by the merchant Smelov. Founded in 1968, it tells the story of Uryupinsk from its foundation to the present. It tells about the amazing nature and animal world of Prikhoperye, the inhabitants of the region - Cossacks.
The expositions present models of the Cossack hut and farmstead in life size, mound with six types of burials.
The memorial exposition of the museum presents famous natives of Uryupinsk: an artist with a world name I.I. Mashkov, E. Dzhugashvili, army general M. Shtemenko, coach of the first cosmonauts (Gagarina, Tereshkova, Titova) N. Nikitin and others.
Since 2001, an art gallery has been opened at the museum, where works by both local authors and capital masters are exhibited. There is a hall "Folk art crafts of Russia", which presents types of decorative and applied arts throughout Russia. The art gallery on Saturdays invites everyone to the studio of art and decorative and applied art "Air Castles".
In 2003 (according to the horoscope of the year of the Goat), the department of ethnography “Goat Museum” was opened at the museum, where the visitor gets acquainted with goat breeding and the local craft of knitting down products from goat down. Moreover, to comprehend the basics of skill, starting with scratching down and spinning, you can on yourself, making your own down scarf, tied it on spokes or a mechanical knitting machine.