Hauptvacht
Kostroma, ul. Simanovsky, 2 
In the center of Kostroma there is another very elegant building - the guardhouse. It was built in the beginning of the 19th century. and stands out with a rich stucco decor in the Empire style. Today the Kostroma Military History Museum is located here
Museum "Noble Assembly" in Kostroma
Kostroma, 7 Mira Ave. 
Kostroma Museum "Noble Assembly "Is a very cozy museum. Perhaps, due to the fact that everything happens in a beautiful ancient city, which in ancient times was called "The Empress of Kostroma". Or, most likely, due to the fact that all expositions are made with great love and attention to detail.
Museum of Wooden Architecture in Kostroma
Kostroma, ul. Prospects, etc. 1a 
When creating the entrance to the museum "Kostroma Sloboda", it seems that there were miracles. Everyone who passes through it to the museum's territory, he leads straight to the past. And the past remotely fabulous, when the Russian way of life was still not Europeanized, the buildings were wooden, and the forest impenetrable.
Flax Museum and birch bark in Kostroma
Kostroma, ul. Tereshkova, etc. 38 
Museum of flax and birch bark - this is one of those museums that can be found only in such old cities as Kostroma. If you look in passing, birch bark and flax do not seem very related, but if you remember that our distant ancestors wore only linen clothes.
Petrovskaya toy museum in Kostroma
Kostroma, ul. Erokhova, etc. 4 
Museum of Folk Crafts "Petrovskaya Toy" in Kostroma - very cozy and if you can say so, a warm museum. Perhaps this is because handicrafts based on old technologies are usually engaged in bright, enthusiastic people.
Museum of Jewelry in Kostroma
Kostroma, ul. Sovetskaya, d. 7 
Kostroma is called the "jewelry capital of Russia", and it is not surprising - more than a third of all gold and silver products produced in the country are made here in the Kostroma region. Gold jewelry has been produced in this region for more than 200 years.
Romanovsky Museum
Kostroma, pr. Мира, д.5 
The Romanovsky Museum is located in the center of the city in a two-story building in Russian style. Conceived as far back as the end of the 19th century, this building was originally built under a museum, which is very rare for provincial cities of Russia. At its opening was personally attended by the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, tk. most of the museum's exposition is devoted to the history of the Romanov dynasty.
Inspection of the museums of Kostroma, perhaps, it is worth starting with an artistic one. In his exposition there is a huge collection of a rather original artist Chestnyakov,
It was discovered by accident, during one of the expeditions in the Kostroma Region.
In addition, in the main building of the museum there is a large exposition of items of jewelry art.
The historical, ethnographic and ecclesiastical halls located in a nearby building of the Romanovsky Museum, made in the style of ancient Russian houses, whose exhibits are in one way or another connected with the Romanov dynasty.
The third building in the territory of the arts Foot of the museum - the building of the Noble Assembly, which played beautiful interiors and a collection of portraits of patrons Kostroma
on Susanin square in the guardhouse building is a literary museum.. Initially, it was intended to make only an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of forty different literary men, but just a month after its opening, it was given the status of a full-fledged museum.
And, finally, the museum of wooden architecture is of undoubted interest. Now in all Kostroma it is already impossible to find any ancient wooden building - which is not surprising, given their fragility. Especially for this museum, throughout the Kostroma region, the remaining monuments of wooden architecture were searched and transported, and now only there one can see with his own eyes what the life of the past represented.
The oldest of the museum's exhibits is the Holm church built in 1552. The interior of the temple was preserved, and now there is an exhibition of wooden house carving.
Another well-known monument of the past is the Church of the Savior, brought from the village of Spas-Vezhi, built, most likely, in 1628. This is the largest of their surviving wooden cage churches.