Penza, 17 September 2015. PenzaNews. The Penza Museum of Local Lore will hold an official celebration of its 110th anniversary on Tuesday, September 22.

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A new exhibition scheduled to opened in the main hall of the second floor will be dedicated to the history of the museum, the Penza local lore community of collection creators and maintainers, and the staff of researchers who made a great contribution to the development of the field.

The guests of the museum will enjoy tea from an authentic samovar that rivals the museum in its age, and watch an interactive program “In our yard…”

“The Penza Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest in the Volga land. It was originally founded as a natural and historical museum in 1905 by the members of the Penza Society of Local Lore Researchers. As the time passed and the collection increased, it changed its direction and became a local lore museum in 1924. In the same year of 1924, it moved to the new red-brick two-story museum, formerly a dormitory of the Diocese Church School, where he were to reside for dozens of years. The museum went through its highs and lows, but always remained on the front line for our country and people of the Penza region, preserving the history and the culture of the land through artifacts it keeps,” said Vladimir Zimenkov, director of the Penza Museum of Local Lore.