Yaroslavl State Historical and Architectural Museum - Preserve was founded in 1865 as a museum of local Society of natural history. Sins 1959 it is located on the territory of former Spassry monastery. The collections of the museum number over 275.000 exhebits. It has collections of rare books, manuskripts, tekstils, icons. ets. There are departmens of local history, nature, ancient Russian art and litrature. The latter is devoted to masterpiece of Russian litrature - "The lay of Igor's Host", a unique sample of the 12 th century Russian litratur.The architectural ensemble of the former monastery comprises the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Savior built in 1506-1516, Holy Gates, Refrectory, Bell Tower. The branches of museum are te Church of St. Elijah the Prophet, the Church of St. Nicholas Nadein, the Church of St. Jhon the Baptist, the Church of the Epiphany. They are opened for tourusts for summer. The museum arranges traditional annual festival of bell music, varios thematic days and makets. over 300000 tourists visit our museum every year.