V. O. Klyuchevsky Museum

The V.O. Klyuchevsky Museum is located in Penza at ulitsa Klyuchevskogo, 66-68. It was opened in 1991 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the famous historian's birth. The complex includes the main house, an adjacent building, a passage and a flier of the estate where the Klyuchevsky family lived from 1851 to 1861. The museum houses over four thousand exhibits including personal belongings, archives and manuscripts of the historian. This is the first historian's museum in Russia.