10 Specialty Museums in Tomsk That You Shouldn't Miss

We recreated the life of Tomsk professors of the early XX century. Authentic pieces of furniture and everyday life, photographs, paintings, unique evidence of the era will allow you to feel the spirit of the time. And all this in an interactive format-no signs "hands do not touch" and barriers.

The Museum is situated in a homestead built in 1842 and belonged to an owner of gold mines I.D. Astashev. Later, the Astashev manor became a residency of Bishops of Tomsk. Today the Shatilov Tomsk Regional Museum of Local Lore has 18 branches including the Memorial Museum NKVD Remand Prison, the Museum of Science Origins Gravitation Point, the Tomsk Planetarium as well as branches in Asino and Kolpashevo, Narym and Podgornoye. We conserve and study more than 216 thousand objects which part is exposed on the exhibitions. At least 10 exhibitions about history of the city and the region of Tomsk are working in the museum.

The first Museum of Slavic mythology has been existed in Tomsk since 2007. It was created by Gennadii Mikhailovich Pavlov, who graduated from Tomsk State University and has become a successful businessman. The Museum is located in a private three-storey building in the historic part of the city behind Voskresenskaya hill. Today it is a centre of Slavic culture in Tomsk. The Museum is unique and doesn’t have any counterparts in the world. It’s collection consists of paintings by modern Russian artists, and these paintings are connected by a common subject – the mythology of our ancestors, the ancient Slavs and their heroic past, Russian fairy tales and customs. The talented artists of these paintings, no matter how different they are in style, are united in their desire to recreate this legendary world of the ancient Slavs, to make it visible for other people by means of the art. It really feels as if the Gods and heroes of ancient Slavic culture are looking at you from the paintings.