The Berdians'k Municipal Local History Museum

History Museum in Berdyansk has a long history. It was founded in 1929, a year before the foundation of the city art museum, so is the first museum in Berdyansk. For him, isolated mansion, which previously housed the former city government. A museum operated until the beginning of World War II.

During the period of active hostilities for Berdyansk in the museum building hit by a shell. Most   exposures were forever buried under the rubble, survived only a small part. She was taken across the Volga and kept there until the end of the war. In 1945, for the local history museum allocate new building   Schmidt in the park, here are transported surviving artifacts. The house was small and could not accommodate all the preservation of the collections, so after 13 years to build a new building of the museum. The event took place in 1953, in this house museum is open to this day. By 1980, the number of exhibits was so great that led to the discovery   several thematic museums.

The exposition of modern urban local history museum is divided into several exhibitions: "The history of the city until the early 20th century", "Berdyansk Soviet times" and natural history of the region. Also, an exhibition of ethnography, where samples of clothing and household items peoples of Azov region.