The State historical and ethnographical museum-reserve "Shushenskoye" (formerly it is known as "Siberian exile of Lenin") is a unique open-air complex. The museum, founded in 1970, based upon the two memorial houses where Lenin had lived in exile. A central part of Siberian village Shushenskoye with some peasant's farmsteads, the house of management board, shops has been reconstructed on the 7 hectares plot.

    The Siberian peasant's occupations and conditions of life (as they were at the end of XIX-th - beginning of XX-th centuries) have been re-created in the houses and farmsteads. Supplementary occupations are also shown: hunting, fishing, tanning, wicker-working, weaving, the making barrels, traditional footwear, wheels, carts, sledges, etc.

    There are folk song band, theatre and a puppet-show in the museum.

    Among the buildings and other items which form the museum's collections, more than 80% are authentic products of the traditional culture of Siberian peasants at the end of XIX-th - beginning of XX-th centuries.

    The museum can receive more than 200 thousand visitors a year