Yekaterinburg History Museum, Municipal history museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia

The Yekaterinburg History Museum occupies several old buildings in the city's historic centre, with its main site in the early 19th-century Kachka House at Karla Libknekhta Street 26. The main building was constructed in 1820 by postmaster G. Laivashevsky, and a wing was added in 1837 by mining engineer A. G. Kachka. The building has served as a hotel, a noble estate, a revenue house and communal flats.

The museum was founded in June 1939 and opened to visitors on 3 July 1940 as the Yakov Sverdlov House-Museum, in the early 19th-century Kachka House at Karla Libknekhta Street 26. Its first display held a Sverdlov bust, portraits of Lenin and Stalin, and a recreated conspiratorial apartment with a model of an underground printing press. In 1995, after reconstruction, it took its present name.

The museum tells the story of how this city became important in Russia, showing how ordinary people lived and worked here over time. You can see objects and documents that reveal what daily life was like for residents across different periods.

The museum is easy to visit and located in the city center where it is reachable by public transport. The spaces are well organized so you can spend as much time as you need exploring the different sections at your own pace.

The collection contains many rare and special objects, including artifacts from the city's early days that cannot be found anywhere else. Some of these pieces tell stories of people who might otherwise be forgotten from history.