Literary Museum of Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod, Minina, d. 26 
Literary Museum named after A.M. Gorky - the first museum in the world, which presents museum collections that illuminate the life and work of the classic of world literature. Gorky. In addition, in the collections of the Literary Museum a large layer of books and manuscripts of Nizhny Novgorod writers of the XIX century.
Museum of Architecture and Life of the Peoples of the Volga Region
Nizhny Novgorod, Gorbatovskaya, 41 
A unique open-air museum, where wooden architecture is represented by magnificent cult, residential and household buildings. Peasant huts are wonderful monuments of wooden architecture. Sledges, trunks and cradles, spinning wheels and seamstresses, rollers, buckets and solstices are lovingly decorated with carving and painting.
The Gorky Childhood Museum "Kashirin's Lodge"
Nizhny Novgorod, congress Pochtovy, d. 21 
The Literary and Memorial Museum "Kashirin's Lodge" is the estate of Maxim Gorky's grandfather - V. V. Kashirin, a Nizhny Novgorod artisan. In the house of his grandfather in 1871-1872. Alyosha Peshkov's childhood passed. In all the premises, a household environment has been recreated that characterizes the life of the Nizhny Novgorod petty-bourgeois family.
Museum of the history of artistic crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod region
Nizhny Novgorod, B. Pokrovskaya, 43 
In the museum of the history of the artistic crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia there are about four thousand works of folk art that allow us to trace the history of the Nizhny Novgorod art crafts development during the 17th-21st centuries.
Museum-apartment of AM Gorky in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod, Semashko, d. 19 
This is the last Nizhny Novgorod apartment AM Gorky, which contemporaries called "Gorky Academy." The writer lived here in 1902-1904. - in the heyday of literary, creative and social activities.
The Museum "Steam Locomotives of Russia"
Nizhny Novgorod, Clubnaya, 5 
As a matter of fact, the Museum "Steam Locomotives of Russia" is not so much a museum as an open space on which steam locomotives are collected. The entrance to the exhibition grounds is completely free and free, there are no staff, guides or security guards.
Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
Nizhny Novgorod, the Kremlin, corp. 3 
The museum was opened on June 25, 1896 in the Dmitrov Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. His collection includes works transferred by the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts - plaster casts from antique sculptures, paintings by KB Venig, PO Kovalevsky, AI Meshchersky and other artists.
Nizhny Novgorod Museum N.A. Dobrolyubova
Nizhny Novgorod, Lykovaya Dama, d. 2a 
The Nizhny Novgorod Museum of NA Dobrolyubov was opened in 1971. And the historical and literary part of the exhibition opened in 1986. Currently, the museum is located in the apartment of the publicist. The house of the provincial priest is filled with genuine things of the Dobrolyubov family.
Nizhny Novgorod Orthodox Museum
Nizhny Novgorod, congress Pokhvalinsky, d. 5 
The exposition of the Nizhny Novgorod Orthodox Museum introduces the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese. Here are the true objects of Orthodox worship: Crosses, Gospels, Sacred Vessels, church utensils.
Russian Museum of Photography
Nizhny Novgorod, Piskunova, d. 9a 
The Museum of Photography is located in a building built in the XIX century, and is protected by law as a monument of history and culture. It was in this building that world-famous photographers worked: AO Karelin - the founder of artistic photography, MP Dmitriev - founder of journalistic photography.
Technical Museum in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, 43, fl. 3 
Did Nizhny Novgorod suppose Vyacheslav Khurtin, stumbling upon one of the city flea markets on the old calipers "Bolshevik", what exactly with this spontaneous purchase will begin a serious hobby of collecting technical rarities?
Rukavishnikov Manor
Nizhny Novgorod, nab. Verhnevolzhskaya, 7 
Rukavishnikov's estate in the middle of the 19th century fell for debts to a large pawnbroker and owner of the steel plant Mikhail Rukavishnikov. His son, Sergei, decided to turn her into the richest and most beautiful house in Nizhny Novgorod and remodeled the estate in the style of an Italian palazzo.
Art Gallery "Russian Age"
Nizhny Novgorod, pl. Minina, d. 2/2 
Art Gallery "Russian Century" is a gallery of modern sculptures, graphics and paintings. This place was founded in 1992, and its main activity is the holding of all kinds of exhibitions.
The ancient city of Nizhny Novgorod keeps a rich cultural heritage. Until recently, he even wore the status of a historical settlement, but for some reason he lost it. In total, the city has more than a hundred museums and their branches. At the same time, some of them demonstrate absolutely unique values of the Russian culture.
So, the greatest historical and architectural value is the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin - a medieval fortress located on the Volga slopes .Now it is part of the Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve .Actually, the Kremlin defines the historical part of the city .The architectural ensemble of the fortress is represented by thirteen watchtowers fenced along the perimeter by a powerful fortress wall .Inside there are permanent exhibitions and expositions .And outside the fortress there are rows of historical houses of the 19th century buildings - the sights of the Old Town .
So, the greatest historical and architectural value is the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin - a medieval fortress located on the Volga slopes. Now it is a part of the Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve.
Further on the importance follows the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum. It is one of the oldest museums in Russia and definitely the largest center of fine art in the region. The museum's collection includes more than twelve thousand works of Russian and foreign art, among which, by the way, there are masterpieces of national and world levels.
Quite an interesting complex of museums is represented by the Nizhny Novgorod State University. NI Lobachevsky. Under the patronage of the institution there are six museums dedicated to various sciences. In particular, it is worth noting the "Nizhny Novgorod Laboratory" - the first research center in the USSR dedicated to radio engineering.
A number of museums of Nizhny Novgorod are dedicated to Russian artists. For example, the State Museum of AM Gorky includes several branches at once: a literary museum, a memorial apartment and the "House of Kashirin" - a museum of the writer's childhood. The State Literary and Memorial Museum of NA Dobrolyubov also works with the same scope, incidentally, the only one in Russia. Well, without a museum of Alexander Pushkin in the city, too, did not do.
Also, museums can function within enterprises, factories and other organizations. For example, a little further from the city on the branch of Nizhny Novgorod - Moscow you can see a collection of steam locomotives of the first half of the 20th century. And within the city, once we touched on transport topics, you can visit the Museum of the history of the Nizhny Novgorod tram and trolleybus. Expositions work directly in the open.
In addition to state and municipal museums, the city has private galleries and exhibition halls. Their museums are available for some churches and libraries. And this is only within the city, and there are also neighborhoods. In Boldino, for example, on the vast expanses, not constrained by the tightness of urban development, extends a huge State Literary and Memorial and Natural Museum-Preserve of AS Pushkin. And in Gorodets not so long ago the Museum of Samovars with the largest collection in Russia opened.