Tambov Museum of Regional Studies is one of the oldest Russian museums. It was established in 1879 and based on several donated private collections. Today there are more than 72 thousands of exhibits in the museum archive. Among others there are unique collections of ceramics (including amazing porcelain collection), archeology, ethnography. The museum has an interesting collection of drawings and oil pictures. The prioruty of the museum work is popularizing of the Tambov history. Several exhibitions are thematically bound with the names of famous people, who visited or livid in Tambov region (e. g. "Friendship of Pushkin and Baratinsky"). At the contemporary moment the museum scientific staff is succesfully developing several new exhibition projects. The museum includes archive, departaments of history, nature, metodic, restoration, scientific library, photo lab, planetarium and also four branch-museums (among them Rachmaninov's). Yearly more than 70 thousands of visitors experience the unique histori of Tambov and local museum.