The Volgograd Local Lore Museum occupies two buildings, which are the monuments of the History and Culture of the XIX-XXth centuries.

    Тhе tasks of the museum are to discover, collect, study, keep historical exhibits and publish all the documents оп the development of the nature and society оп the regional territory .

    The museum's collection enumerates about 120 thousand exhibits. The most interesting of them belong to such sections as paleonthology, paleobotany, archeology, cerarnics and china, householding of the XIX-XXth centuries, private memorial collections.

    The sections of "The Nature of the Volgograd Region", "The History of the Region from the ancient times till the beginning of the XXth century", the exhibitions "Letters from the War", "Children and the War", "Occupations of the Regional Population", "From the History of Porcelain" etc. are оп display.

    The museum performs cultural-educational activity according to the program "Тhе Forming of Historical and Ecological Consciousness of the Population". The Museum is also а scientific center.

    There is а Local Lore Society at the Museum. The Local Lore Reading and scientific conferences are held annually. All the proceedings are published in а special collection of works. The museum is visited Ьу 135 thousand people а year.