Tambov Regional Museum of Local Lore, Regional heritage museum in Tambov, Russia

The Tambov Regional Museum of Local Lore occupies the former House of Political Education on Derzhavinskaya Street, an architectural landmark. Its holdings number 112,693 items, including Russian printed engravings from the 18th–19th centuries, Chinese and Dutch decorative vases from the second half of the 18th–19th centuries, a paleontological collection of invertebrates, and rocks of the sedimentary cover.

Founded on 24 December 1879 as the Tambov Governorate Museum for the centenary of the Tambov Viceroyalty, it was transferred to the Tambov Scientific Archival Commission in 1884. Between 1918 and 1922 it absorbed the commission's museum, the city museum, the Bunakov travelling museum and the art museum. It became the regional museum in 1937 and was housed in the Transfiguration Cathedral from 1929 to 1994.

The museum displays craft works and ethnographic materials that reflect how people in this region lived and worked. These pieces show the traditions and daily practices of local communities.

The museum occupies the former House of Political Education on Derzhavinskaya Street, a building listed as an architectural monument. It has been housed there since 1994, after leaving the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral. Visitors should plan around the building's own layout rather than a purpose-built museum plan.

The museum's holdings number 112,693 items, a figure that includes a collection of Russian printed engravings from the 18th and 19th centuries and Chinese and Dutch decorative vases from the second half of the 18th to the 19th century. It also keeps a palaeontological collection of invertebrate animals and rocks of the sedimentary cover.