West Kazakhstan Regional Historical and Local History Museum, Regional historical museum in Oral, Kazakhstan

The West Kazakhstan Regional Historical and Local History Museum occupies a two-storey 19th-century building in Oriental style, originally the Russian-Kazakh vocational school. Its central riser carries an attic topped by a high barrel roof with spires, a pointed half-pediment with a round opening in the tympanum, and rectangular ground-floor windows beneath horseshoe arches set in pointed niches. The building covers 2,432.7 square metres, with 1,809.1 square metres of exhibition space.

The museum was founded in 1836 next to the Oral military school, and local teacher M. K. Kurilin played a key role in its opening. In 1870 it moved into the building of the Oral school, and in 1906 it became an independent Cossack military museum with its own building. Since 1980 its exhibitions have occupied the former Russo-Kazakh vocational school, built between 1879 and 1884.

The museum displays traditional Kazakh crafts and regional clothing that reflect how people lived in earlier times. In the exhibitions, you can see objects showing how different ethnic communities in the area practiced their customs and traditions.

The museum stands on Nazarbayev Avenue in Oral, in the two-storey building of the former Russo-Kazakh vocational school. Its total area is 2,432.7 square metres, of which the displays occupy 1,809.1 square metres. The collection numbers 21,930 items, and the museum also runs branches in the region, including the house-museums of Pushkin and Pugachev.

The museum's holdings number 21,930 items, among them gold ornaments from the 4th–7th centuries BC, armour of Kazakh batyrs, and books and clothing from the 17th–19th centuries. Its branches include the house-museum of Yemelyan Pugachev and a museum devoted to Manshuk Mametova.