Меню
The municipal state institution " of the Department of Culture, Archives and Documentation of the Akmola region was founded in 2000. Its activities are aimed at studying, preserving and promoting the history of the regional center.
The museum's exposition opened in 2004, the year of the 180th anniversary of Kokshetau. The museum is located in the old part of the city, on Kanai bi Street, 32. It was in this area, at the foot of the Bukpa hills, on the shores of Lake Kopa, that the birth of Kokshetau began in the first quarter of the 19th century.
The wooden one-story museum building, surrounded by greenery of old trees, is a historical monument of national importance. From 1889 to 1905, the family of the future statesman of the Soviet era, V.V.Kuibyshev, lived in this house, his childhood and youth were spent here. During the Great Patriotic War, this house housed a rear hospital for wounded soldiers of the Red Army. After the war, in 1949, the Memorial Museum of V.V. Kuibyshev was opened in it, which in 2000 was reorganized into the Museum of the History of the city of Kokshetau.
The 5 small halls of the museum chronologically reflect the main milestones in the history of Kokshetau, from the moment of its foundation in 1824 to the present. The exhibition introduces the 19th - 20th century city of Kokshetau, the history of its economy, industry, healthcare, education, culture, and the lives of people who contributed to the development of the city.
The museum's funds contain about 20 thousand exhibits. These are old photographs, documents, manuscripts, household items and material culture that have yellowed from time to time, which can tell a lot about the life of the city and its inhabitants in the past. More than 4 thousand exhibits have been digitized and included in the National Museum.