Kozmodemyansk Cultural and Historical Museum Complex, Republic of Mari El

The A. V. Grigoriev Museum of Art and History. The A. V. Grigoriev Museum of Art and History is a kind of "Small Tretyakovka on the Volga" - one of the oldest art galleries on the Volga, founded in 1919. The Museum of Merchant Life is a monument to the merchants, who in the XIX century played an important role in the development of Kozmodemyansk and its transformation into one of the major centers of timber trade in Russia. Ethnographic open-air museum named after V. I. Romanov. V. I. Romanov Ethnographic Open Air Museum is a small "village", where the life and life of the mountain Mari is fully recreated. Museum of satire and humor named after O. Bender, popularizing the novel by I. Ilf and E. Bender. Ilf and E. Petrov "12 chairs", in which the town of Kozmodemyansk was a prototype of the town of Vasyuki. Hotel farm "Lada". Museum "The House of Walnut Oak" has a permanent exposition "The Treasure of the River", the treasure of the river is understood as walnut oak.