The Department of culture, archives and documentation of Akmola region has 4 legal museum organizations:
State enterprise" Akmola Regional Museum of local lore", KSU" Museum of history of Kokshetau", KSU" Museum of literature and art", KSU" Malik Gabdullin Museum".
State municipal state enterprise "Akmola Regional Museum of local lore" of the Department of culture of Akmola region - one of the oldest cultural institutions of the region, founded in 1920 as a Museum of visual aids as the Kokshetau Museum of local lore under the county Department of public education.
The basis of the original fund was 130 items of historical significance collected and transferred from the school collection. The exhibits were exhibited for visitors in one of the rooms of the Department of Education. Six years later, the museum moved to a separate allocated room - a four-room house No. 89 on Sovetskaya street (now M. Auezov Street).
Since January 1945, the district museum has been transformed into the Kokshetau Regional Museum of local lore. In those years, the regional museum was given the building of the former mosque in the city center.
Since 1974, the museum has been located in a building located near the central square of Kokshetau.
The museum building is a monument of history and architecture under state protection. The building is two-story, brick, built in 1904.
In 2000, it received the status of the Akmola Regional Museum of local lore, since the city of Kokshetau became the center of the Akmola region.
The first large-scale reconstruction of the regional museum was carried out in 2012.
In 2018, The Open-Air Museum "Botai-Borovoe" will show, which will fully reveal the Eneolithic era.
In 2019, the museum halls were reexposed using new innovative technologies.
Museum collections on the history, archeology, ethnography, nature and culture of the region today the Regional Museum has more than 85 thousand exhibits, the best of which are presented in the new exposition halls:
* Nature Hall
* "Hall of Natural History"
* Hall" civilization of the Great Steppe"
* Hall" history of Akmola region in the XIX century"
* Hall" history of Akmola region in the XX century"
* Exhibition hall
The Regional Museum of local lore includes 10 district museums:
Atbasar Museum of local lore
Ilyas Yesenberlin Museum of literature
Marinovka Museum of local lore
Yereymentau Museum of local lore named after bogenbay batyr
5 Stepnogorsk Museum of local lore
Shchuchinsk Museum of local lore
Historical Museum of Burabay village
Botai-Borovoe open-air museum
Birzhan Sal Museum of local lore
Zharkain Museum of local lore
The state municipal institution "Museum of the history of Kokshetau" of the Department of culture, archives and documentation of Akmola region was established in 2000. The scope of the museum's activities is aimed at studying, preserving and popularizing the history of the Regional Center.
The exposition of the museum was opened in 2004 on the eve of the 180th anniversary of Kokshetau. The museum is located in the ancient historical part of the city - Kanai bi Street, 32. It was here, on the slopes of Bukhpa mountain and on the shores of Lake Kopa, that the formation of the city of Kokshetau began in the first half of the 19th century.
The wooden one-story building is a historical monument of national significance. From 1889 to 1905, the family of the future statesman of the Soviet era V. V. Kuibyshev lived in this building, where his childhood and youth passed. During the Great Patriotic War, there was a home front hospital for wounded soldiers of the Red Army. After the war, in 1949, the V. V. Kuibyshev Republican Memorial Museum was opened, and in 2000 it was transformed into the Museum of the history of Kokshetau.
In the small five-Exposition Hall of the museum, a chronological sequence dating back to 1824 covers the main stages of the city of Kokshetau from the period of its foundation to the present. The exposition introduces the city of Kokshetau in the 19th-20th centuries, the history of the formation of its economy, industry, healthcare, education, culture, and the life of people who contributed to the development of the city.
About 20 thousand exhibits are stored in the museum's collection. These are: yellowed photographs of the past, ancient documents, manuscripts, material culture and household items that tell about the life of the city and the life of residents.
Since July 22, 1993, the museum "literature and art", which was organized on the basis of the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR No. 14 dated January 20, 1989, has been serving the cultural and spiritual benefit of the public. This museum is the only Scientific Center for collecting and studying the life and work of not only residents of Kokshetau-Akmola region, but also other famous poets, writers, artists and artists of the country.
We are proud that the number of Museums of this content structure in the Republic is two, including the Bukhar zhyrau Museum of literature and art in Pavlodar.
More than 10 thousand exhibits are stored in the museum's collection. The museum "literature and art" in Kokshetau operates in five areas: folklore, literature of the modern era, art, public travel and fund department. The main collection of the museum includes personal belongings of famous Sal-Seri Birzhan Sal, akan Seri, Ukili Ybyrai, Baluan Sholak, personal belongings of famous poets and writers, literary scientists Zhumagali Sain, Esmagambet Ismailov, Kokken Shakeev, Musa Asainov, Saken Zhunusov, Estai Myrzakhmetov, Tursynbek Kakishev, handwritten notes, literary works, historical works photos are preserved. Among the most valuable exhibits are a medieval copy of the book "Diwani Hikmet" by Khoja Ahmet Iassawi, a mug of Kanay bi Watchman, a bottle of water of the hero of the XVIII century, an adalbakan of akan Seri, a mirror of akan akan, a mirror of akan akan, and a machine for sewing "Zinger", a dombra of Sultan Zhalmukan's son from Aktokti. The museum's valuable exhibits are the types of musical national instruments, jewelry, household antiques made of wood and leather, which have become an integral part of the nomadic life of the Kazakh people in the past centuries.
The Museum of Hero of the Soviet Union, academician, writer, public figure Malik Gabdullin was opened in accordance with the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07.05.1993 No. 465 and in connection with the decree of the Akim of Kokshetau Region No. 1-39 dated September 4, 1995 in honor of the 80th anniversary of our hero.
In 2004, the old building of the museum, which was 116 years old, was declared unusable. Akimat of Akmola region decided to reconstruct the museum building.
On August 19, 2005, the solemn opening of the new museum was attended by the president of the Republic N. A. Nazarbayev, who was then on a working trip in Akmola region, laid flowers at the monument to M. Gabdullin and paid tribute to the hero of the day.
The main purpose of the activity of the state institution" Malik Gabdullin museum " is to instill in the younger generation the responsibility for protecting the fatherland through the personality of Hero of the Soviet Union, academician, public figure M. Gabdullin, to promote the heroic traditions of our heroic ancestors, to form a new Kazakhstan patriotism through the activation of ethnopedagogical propaganda work. The museum's collection includes more than 7 thousand exhibits.
Museums of Akmola region continue to expand access to cultural heritage. There are 14 museums, including regional and district museums. The total fund included 170,258 exhibits (the main fund – 85,288, the auxiliary fund – 84,970), the IS-Museum (automated system) included 38,069 exhibits, which is 44.6%. During the current period, 4044 excursions, 465 lectures were held, 354 exhibitions were organized, and 1468 museum items were received. 94,799 people were served at all facilities.
In 2024, the Stepnogorsk Museum of local lore celebrated its 30th anniversary, and The Literary Museum of Ilyas Yesenberlin of the Atbasar district celebrated its 25th anniversary.
In 2025, the 105th anniversary of the Akmola Regional Museum of local lore, the 30th anniversary of the Malik Gabdullin Museum, and the 25th anniversary of the Kokshetau Museum of history will be celebrated.