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The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History is the oldest museum in Nizhny Tagil. It is located in the centre of the city, near the Tagil pond, at prospect Lenina (проспект Ленина (Lenin avenue)). The museum belongs to the Nizhny Tagil Museum Preserve Gornozavodskoy Ural (Горнозаводской Урал (Metallurgical Ural)). Furthermore, it is located in the building of the former laboratory outbuilding at the Zavodskaya office. Together with the City Council, it forms the architectural complex called Tagilskiy kreml (Тагильский кремль (Tagil Kremlin)).

History
The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Regional History was originally built in 1840 as Muzeum estestvennoy istorii i drevnostey (Музеум естественной истории и древностей (Museum of Natural History and Antiquities)). The museum was established on the basis of the exhibition that was organized for Alexander II, who visited Nizhny Tagil in 1837. The museum was a sheltered institution. Its purpose was to collect, store, and study collections which were also used as a study aid for the students of the Demidov Vyya Technical School.

On the basis of the collections from "Muzeum" and from the Vyya Museum, Gornozavodskoy muzeum Nizhnetagilskogo i Lunyevskogo zavodov (Горнозаводской музеум Нижнетагильского и Луньевского заводов (Metallurgical Museum of the Nizhny Tagil and Lunyevka Factories)) was established in 1891. However, this museum closed its doors in 1907 due to lack of funding. It caused the loss of many exhibits.

The museum was re-established only in 1924 as the Nizhny Tagil Museum of the Regional History. Its collection has been supplemented with the rare items from the Gospodskiy Dom (Музей быта и ремёсел горнозаводского населения Нижнего Тагила «Господский дом» (Museum of Life and Traditional Crafts of Locals)) museum and from the surrounding churches. By the late 1980s, the exhibits devoted to the nature were removed, and the museum became the museum of the regional history.

Exposure
In the museum, there are 7 exhibit halls. The exposition reflects the history of Nizhny Tagil from ancient times to 1917:


 * Hall 1: Primitive communal system from the Palaeolithic age to the early Iron Age. History of the development of the middle Urals in the 16th and 17th centuries.
 * Hall 2: History of the field development and occurrence of the first iron and steel works in the 18th century.
 * Hall 3: History of the Nizhny Tagil's urban district from 1806 to 1861
 * Hall 4: Cultural scene of Nizhny Tagil's urban district in the first half of the 19th century.
 * Hall 5: The Demidov family in the history of the Russian culture; their role in the relations between France and Russia, and between Italy and Russia
 * Hall 6: Nizhny Tagil's urban district in the second half of the 19th century.
 * Hall 7: Nizhny Tagil's urban district in the first half of the 20th century.