Description of the attraction
The Mozhaisk Museum of History and Local Lore is a branch of the State Borodino Military History Museum-Reserve. In 1905, a museum of visual aids was organized at the local Zemstvo to help students. With the participation of Countess P. S. Uvarova, it gradually turned into a history of local lore. The museum now has exhibits transferred from the rich collection of the Uvarov counts, kept in the estate of Porechye, Mozhaisky district.
After the February Revolution of 1917, the museum was left without supervision. Its exhibits were distributed among the Mozhaisk schools, partly ended up in a museum organized by local cooperation. This museum existed until the fire of 1920, when almost all of its exhibits were destroyed in the fire. In the 1920s, through the efforts of local ethnographers N. I. Gorokhov, a local chronicler, the museum was revived.
Before the outbreak of hostilities in 1941, the museum's collections were evacuated to the Regional Museum of Local Lore in Istra, from where they did not return after the war for various reasons. Mozhaisk Museum of History and Local Lore was reopened in 1981 for the 750th anniversary of the city. Since 1986, the museum has become a branch of the State Borodino military-historical museum-reserve.
In 1985, the House-Museum of the People's Artist of the USSR S. V. Gerasimov, which since 1990 became a branch of the State Borodino Military History Museum-Reserve and became a part of the Mozhaisk Museum of History and Local Lore. The funds of the museum include collections of: historical and household items, archaeological finds, documents and photographs, a collection, paintings and graphics by Mozhaisk artists, S. V. Gerasimov and his students. Currently, the museum has an exhibition hall and a permanent exhibition in the S. V. Gerasimov.
