The Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve is a major depository of the 14th - 21d century Russian art. The Museum collections are housed in four complexes in the historical part of Sergiev Posad. The Museum was founded in 1920 on the basis of the collections of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, subsequently supplemented with the local history collections, the collections of the Moscow Museum of folk handicrafts which have been constantly completed, archeological finds, works of local artists.

    Now the Museum possesses over 110 thousand items: icons, medieval manuscripts and old printed books, icon and ornamental embroideries, articles of gold and silver, paintings, drawings, works of folk and contemporary applied and decorative art. The comprehensive early Museum collection, is also connected with the most important historical events, like the battle on the Kulikovo field of 1380, the struggle against Polish-Lithuanian invaders at the beginning of the 17th century and the events of Peter the Great's time.