Chechersk. Historical and Ethnographic Museum.

Eight stationary halls and two exhibition halls will help to get acquainted with the history of the city, its traditions and heritage in the museum: archeology, iconography and ethnography, "The Entry of the Chechersk Territory into the Russian Empire", "Economic Development of the region" (late XVIII - early XX centuries), the Chernyshev memorial Hall, "Modern History of the Chechersk region" (1917 - 1991), the hall "Echo of Chernobyl".

The demonstration area of the halls is 634.1 m2. 

The exhibition "The Entry of the Chechersk Territory into the Russian Empire" presents antique furniture of the 19th century, exhibits, paper and copper money, documents related to this period. 

The ethnographic exposition introduces the red and white Chechersk towels, pious, pottery, woodworking, weaving, and weaving.

Icon painting is represented by the Chechersk Icon Painting School of the Gerakov dynasty of peasants and icons donated to the museum by residents and natives of the district.

In the Chernyshev Memorial Hall, visitors will be able to plunge into the atmosphere of the era of Count Chernyshov.

At the archeology exposition, visitors can see fragments of a mammoth tusk and tooth, silicon tools, glass bracelets made by local craftsmen, three-studded shoe shoes, fragments of terracotta tiles and other exhibits of significant historical value. 

"Echo of Chernobyl" presents a mock-up of an abandoned house, which was decorated with funds from the French CORE project. He talks about how the house looked after the residents left it.

The museum's most significant collections are "Numismatics", "Ethnography", "Painting", and "Old Printed Books". Rare objects of the museum are a 12th-century serpentine, old printed editions of the 18th century, 19th-century antiques, a silver spoon of the second half of the 18th century, a 12th-century body icon, stucco pots from the Neolithic period, exhibits and tools and household items of the 19th and early twentieth centuries, ancient icons of local craftsmen and icon painters of the Babichi iconographic school Gavrila and Vladimir Gerakov.

Chechersk, with its sights and architectural monuments of the XVIII century, is part of the Golden Ring of Gomel Region tourist route, and local historians believe that the Chechersk Historical and Ethnographic Museum is rightfully one of its pearls.