Rostov Kremlin State Museum-Reserve

The Rostov Kremlin State Museum-Reserve was founded on October 28 (November 10), 1883.

The museum is located on the territory of the architectural ensemble of the former Rostov Episcopal House (Rostov Kremlin), which was formed as a result of the construction activities of Metropolitan Jonah III (Sysoevich) of Rostov and Yaroslavl in the 1670s and 1680s.

The initiators of the museum's creation were Rostov merchants, local historians A. A. Titov and I. A. Shlyakov, Archbishop Jonathan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, Yaroslavl Governor V. D. Levshin, and representatives of the Moscow Archaeological Society.

With the organization of the Yaroslavl Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve (Yaroslavl) in 1959, the Rostov Museum became its branch, and in 1969 it received the status of an independent museum-reserve. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 64 dated January 24, 1995, the Rostov Kremlin Museum Reserve was included in the State Register of Especially Valuable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Peoples of Russia.

Currently, it is the only federal museum in the Yaroslavl region. The collection includes more than 220 thousand museum objects, combined into stock collections of icons, paintings, archeology, fabrics, etc.

Visitors are offered to explore unique architectural monuments, the exposition of the Rostov Fine Art, the historical exposition, open funds for the preservation of archeology, the reconstruction of the ancient storehouse and a variety of thematic exhibitions.