Uzlov Art and Local Lore Museum

The Uzlovsk Museum of Local Lore was opened on May 9, 1968 as a public museum. In 1971, it became a state. And on June 13, 1987, thanks to the help of the People’s Artist S.P. Tkachev, the first folk art gallery in the Tula region was opened. Later, this allowed to transform the local history museum into an art and local history museum. The museum has a rich fund of works by Soviet artists of 1950-1990.

The museum collection is a base for amateur artists, students of the Children's Art School, masters of decorative and applied creativity. The museum is a methodical and organizational center for public museums and clubs organized at the museum and united by the motto "Museum - House of Muses". According to this motto, the museum actively participates in the cultural and social life of the city of Uzlovaya. Within the walls of the museum there are various associations. These are various societies: "Classics", "Memorial", "Lenin and the Fatherland"; clubs "Young Archaeologist", "Old Drum", "Kraeved", "Literary Association" and others.

Museum funds are a rather diverse collection. It is based on collections dedicated to the history of the enterprises of the city and the district, personalities of famous countrymen, an art collection on the theme "Deeds and people of the Moscow region".

In recent years, the museum conducted active archaeological work in the area with the participation of the Tula archaeological expedition, as well as the club of young archaeologists. As a result, a collection of materials on the history of these places from the Stone Age to the 18th century was created.

Unique exhibits of the museum are a treasure of Arab dirhams, as well as samples of black-and-grained ceramics of the 12th-14th centuries. Together with the hunting society, a collection of stuffed animals living in the territory of the Uzlovsky district is being formed, a rich material has been collected on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident on the ecology of local places.

The exhibition area of the museum is about 700 square meters. A year the museum is visited by about 13 thousand people. The museum conducts excursions dedicated to the history of the region, since ancient times, the development of capitalism in Russia, the glorious Knotlovites, the period of the war of 1941-1945, the development of Uzlovaya as a major railway junction, genres of art, art crafts of the Moscow region, Uzlovaya and Knotlov residents in art and literature, etc.

The most valuable are the collections of paintings by Soviet artists, icons (including two icons of the 18th century), old printed manuscript books, a literary archive and personal belongings of the famous writer and scout Zoya Voskresenskaya.

The museum has organized major exhibition projects, such as an exhibition dedicated to the tenth anniversary of "Kulikov Fields" (2001), an exhibition "Provincial Museums for the Sixtieth Anniversary of Victory" on Poklonnaya Hill (2005), a joint exhibition with the Museum of Military History "The Winners of Involuntary" (2010).

The museum organized exchange and visiting exhibitions: "Women's Faces" (painting, sculpture, DPI, graphics), revealing the image of women by means, which presents the works of masters of art of Central Russia in the first half of the 20th century, the sculptural exhibition of clay miniatures of Evgeny Malkov, "Uzlovskaya palette", dedicated to the work of artists Uzlova and amateur authors, among whom Assorov F.I., a member of the Union of Artists, an exposition dedicated to the embroidered cross paintings of masters of masters of Uzlova, "Rainbow of flowers" - on life of Moscow artists.