Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore named after E. R. Romanov

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Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore named after E. R. Romanov is the oldest museum in Mogilev. It was opened on November 15, 1867 on the initiative of the provincial Statistical Committee. It was simply called the Mogilev Museum. In 1918 the museum was joined up with the Church Archaeological Museum.

In 1929 the museum changed its name to the Mogilev State Museum. It has two branches: The Museum of History and Atheism and The Memorial Museum.

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the museum had collected a unique collection of rare antique objects. In 1929 some antique items from the USSR antique fund were also transferred to the museum. During the Great Patriotic War the museum and its branches were burned down in order not to leave them to the occupiers since the museum values could not be taken out in time. The collection of the new collection began only after 1949. The museums of Moscow and Leningrad shared their exhibits with the Mogilev Museum. The museum is located in the former building of the district court where he moved in 1961. Now the museum has more than 300 thousand exhibits, divided into four sections: "Nature of the region", "Archeology and ancient history", "History of pre-Soviet times", "Soviet period". In 2005 the museum was named after the organizer of the first church-archaeological museum of Mogilev, E.R. Romanov. In addition to permanent exhibitions the museum hosts interesting exhibitions of archaeological collections from different countries, weapons, armor, military uniforms, rare ancient books and manuscripts, icons, and national applied art.