The Kursk State Regional Museum of Archeology was established on September 29, 1993 and became the first independent regional archeological museum in the European part of Russia. The mission of the museum is to study and preserve archaeological monuments of the Kursk region.
The museum is located in an architectural complex consisting of a three-story residential building and a one-storey service wing. The buildings were constructed in the 1740s and are the oldest surviving secular buildings in Kursk.
Today the collection of the museum includes more than 142 thousand exhibits. The most interesting finds — more than 3 thousand items — are presented in the permanent exhibition of the museum, dedicated to different periods of history of the Kursk region from the Stone Age to the developed Middle Ages. They occupy eight halls. In 2006, the museum opened a branch — the Historical and Ethnographic Museum in the village of Pryamitsyno, Oktyabrsky district of the Kursk region.
The Kursk State Regional Museum of Archaeology is actively engaged in research work, which has made the museum one of the leading research centers for the study of the distant past of the “Nightingale region”. Its staff members participate in Russian and international conferences, symposia and congresses. The museum hosts thematic scientific conferences attended by archaeologists and historians from various research and educational centers. Following the outcomes of the conferences, collections of scientific works are published, which arouse great interest among researchers.
The museum is located in an architectural complex consisting of a three-story residential building and a one-storey service wing. The buildings were constructed in the 1740s and are the oldest surviving secular buildings in Kursk.
Today the collection of the museum includes more than 142 thousand exhibits. The most interesting finds — more than 3 thousand items — are presented in the permanent exhibition of the museum, dedicated to different periods of history of the Kursk region from the Stone Age to the developed Middle Ages. They occupy eight halls. In 2006, the museum opened a branch — the Historical and Ethnographic Museum in the village of Pryamitsyno, Oktyabrsky district of the Kursk region.
The Kursk State Regional Museum of Archaeology is actively engaged in research work, which has made the museum one of the leading research centers for the study of the distant past of the “Nightingale region”. Its staff members participate in Russian and international conferences, symposia and congresses. The museum hosts thematic scientific conferences attended by archaeologists and historians from various research and educational centers. Following the outcomes of the conferences, collections of scientific works are published, which arouse great interest among researchers.
