The Museum of the History of Orenburg
The museum expositions are dedicated to the history of the city from ancient times. As part of the main fund there are interesting items of ethnography (Bashkir, Kazakh, Mordovian national clothes), materials telling about the outstanding representatives of Russian culture who have made a significant contribution to the development of the Orenburg region and the country. The Museum of History of Orenburg includes six museums: The Shevchenko Memorial Military Prison Museum, The Memorial Museum-apartment of Yuri and Valentina Gagarins', The Memorial Museum-apartment of Leopold and Mstislav Rostropovich, The House of Memory, The Museum of Cosmonautics, The National Orenburg Museum of defenders of the motherland.