House-Museum of VA Rusanov in Orel
Orel, ul. Rusanova, 41 This museum is connected with the life and work of a remarkable figure in Russian science, polar explorer VA Rusanov. The museum was opened in 1982 and occupies an old wooden house in Zheleznodorozhny district, included in the list of objects of cultural heritage.
NS Leskov House-Museum in Orel
Orel, ul. Oktyabrskaya, 9 NS Leskov House-Museum, arranged in a noble residence of 1874, built by the architect I. F. Thibault Brignole at the place of the Leskov family estate, on Oktyabrskaya Street, house 9, is the only literary memorial museum of the great Russian writer NS Leskov in the country.
Turgenev Museum in Orel
Orel, ul. Turgenev, 11 The Turgenev Museum is one of the oldest in Russia. It was opened during the Civil War. The museum occupies the building of the 1870s. construction, which was built according to the project of IF Tibo-Brinol in the part of the city where the noble families settled, and belonged to the distant relative of the writer.
Orel Military History Museum
Orel, ul. Normandy-Neman, 1 The Military History Museum is a branch of the Orel Regional Museum. The premises of the museum are located in the former house of the merchant Chikin, entered in the list of cultural heritage. In front of the building there are samples of military equipment, and inside the museum you can estimate the vast collection of cold steel.
Orel Regional Museum
Orel, ul. Lounge, 2 Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest in Orel and the region. It was founded by the Oryol Scientific Commission in 1897, and at that time it was among the first provincial museums of the state. Today the collection of the museum includes more than 170 thousand artifacts, somehow connected with the history of the region.
Orel Museum of Fine Arts
Orel, ul. Oktyabrskaya, d 29 Eagle Museum of Fine Arts has an amazingly diverse collection. Here you can see the art works of foreign and domestic masters, Russian and Soviet, as well as examples of modern and decorative and applied art.
Another large and interesting city museum - local lore . His collection is even more impressive: more than 170 thousand . exhibits! This is all sorts of items of household utensils and everyday life of residents of the Orel region, a rich numismatic collection, as well as an interesting collection of archaeological finds, including the tools of prehistoric people . The Museum of Local Lore has two branches: the Military History Museum and the Rusanov Museum . The first is dedicated to the glorious the military history of the city from the earliest times to the conflicts of the second half of the 20th century . The center of its expositions are two large-scale dioramas: one dedicated to the battle of 1919 ., the second - to the liberation of 1943 . In the House Museum of Rusanov you can find out more about this wonderful polar explorer and study the original materials of his expeditions .
Eagle's literary heritage is extremely interesting and rich. Paying tribute to him, the city created the United State Literary Museum, which includes the museum of Turgenev, Leskov, Bunin, Granovsky and Andreev. The memorial house-estate of Turgenev is located in the Orel region, in the village of Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, and there you can touch the recreated life of the writer; and the museum in the city has an extensive and interesting library. Also in Orel there is a common house-museum of writers-townspeople
Well and the youngest museum of the city is still considered the small museum of M. M. Bakhtin, which was opened in 2005, during the World Congress of researchers of the works of Mikhail Bakhtin , a great thinker, philosopher, culturologist and philologist of the 20th century.
In the Orel region there are also a lot of museums, mostly local lore and historical ethnographic. Such museums are in Mtsensk, Bolkhov, Dmitrovsk, Glazunovka, Zaligoshchi, Kolpne, Naryshkin, Khotynets.