The Vesnin Architects Museum

The museum was opened on January 15, 1986, occupies a 2-storey mansion owned by parents of outstanding architects.

The basis of the exposition was the materials of the Shchusev State Research Museum, the Yurievets Museum of Local Lore, the personal archives of the architect A. G. Chinyakov, art historian K. V. Usacheva, relatives of architects, the widow of V. A. Vesnin - N. M. Vesnin rendered great assistance. The exposition of the museum is dedicated to the life and work of outstanding Russian architects Vesnin brothers - Victor, Alexander, Leonid, who lived in childhood in Yurievets. The exposition is based on watercolor landscapes of childhood and youth of future architects, as well as documents and photographs from the family archive, sketches of design works of different periods of their work.

The treasury of Russian and Soviet architecture included such masterpieces of the Vesnin brothers as the Sirotkin house in Nizhny Novgorod (now the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum), a bank in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Dneproges, the Likhachev Palace of Culture, a department store on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow.