Historical and cultural center "Old Surgut"
Surgut, ul. Energetikov, d. 2 This complex is located in the center of Surgut, on the shore of Saimaa. The historical-ethnographic center includes the territory on which 4 houses are built, copying historical wooden city buildings. Once these houses were located in different parts of Surgut.
Surgut Museum of Local History
Surgut, ul. 30/2 Pobedy, 21/2 This is one of the oldest museums in Surgut: it was opened in 1963 and occupied the originally wooden building of a merchant's estate built in the late 19th century . In 1999 the museum moved to a new beautiful building, occupying two of its floors out of three.
Surgut Art Museum
Surgut, ul. 30/2 Pobedy, 21/2 Surgut Art Museum was founded in 1992 and today it can be considered the main cultural center of the city. The main emphasis in it is on the domestic art of the late 19th century. - the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the art of emigration and contemporary local authors
The main meeting of the museum of local lore is located in the museum complex, but there are also branches: Klepikova Manor, it is the last town house of the turn of the 19-20th centuries , which stands in its original place; The Salmanov House, where the exposition dedicated to the discoverer of Surgut oil works, and the Patriotic Heritage Center, where one can learn more about military history.
When choosing a museum in Surgut for a visit, it's worth to visit the Historical and Cultural Center "Old Surgut" . You will easily recognize this complex of black fox sculpture replicating the image of the city emblem at the entrance . On the territory of the complex There are 14 houses that copy historical wooden city buildings .. In the majority of houses - the House of Nature, the House of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the House of Cossacks, and . d . - museum expositions . are also open. All Saints' Church, built in 2001 . in accordance with old traditions, and the Craft Center, where artisan workshops are located and often hold master classes .
Center for Cultural Initiatives "Port" also represents something like a gallery of contemporary art. But the main goal here is not just passive exposure of works, but creation of an environment for uniting creative people and joint realization of their ideas. Here you can see photo and art exhibitions, go on tours, music concerts and creative evenings of famous (nationwide) personalities. The center organizes festivals, and an animation studio for secondary and senior schoolchildren runs on its base.
Another museum dedicated to the urban heritage (namely the oil and gas industry) is located right in the building of Gazprom company . It was opened in 2002 ., and to get here is not so easy (especially alone, but sometimes the museum serves excursion groups) . The exposition is small, but quite interesting: here you can see artifacts related to this industry and its development in the country , - for example, the first St. Petersburg gases e lights . curious installation, recreating the room in which the first gas workers lived in Siberia .Here you can see the personal belongings of the "founding fathers" of the Surgut Gazprom; in particular, especially valuable general epaulettes .
There is also the Museum of the Ugra bridge, one of the longest bridges in Siberia, included in the Guinness Book of Records. The museum stores the key, which the bridge was symbolically open, as well as pieces of cables that support its central fragment over 400 m long.