Romanov Museum, Museum in Kostroma, Russia

The Romanov Museum is a regional heritage museum in Kostroma, Russia, housed in a building designed in the Russian Revival style in the early 20th century. The building features decorative facades with carved details, and its rooms hold collections of artworks, documents, and objects tied to the imperial period.

The museum grew out of the Kostroma provincial scholarly archival commission, founded in 1885, which opened the region's first museum in two rooms of the Nobility Assembly in 1891. In 1897 a Romanov department was created to gather records on the family of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich. The building by architect N. I. Gorlitsyn was begun in 1909 for the dynasty's tercentenary and opened on 19 May 1913 in the presence of Nicholas II.

The museum's name comes from the Romanov dynasty, honoured in 1913 for its tercentenary. The ground floor held the archive and library of the Kostroma provincial scholarly archival commission; the middle floor displayed peasant costumes, household utensils and serf-painted pictures; the top floor showed charters and portraits of the tsars. A separate hall holds over 4,000 engraved portraits donated by Kostroma resident K. N. Kozyrev.

The museum sits in central Kostroma and is easy to reach on foot from the main historic area of the city. Giving yourself enough time to move through all the rooms at a relaxed pace is a good idea, as the collection is spread across several floors.

The museum's collection includes over 4,000 engraved portraits of Russian figures from the past three centuries, donated by Kostroma resident K. N. Kozyrev and displayed in a dedicated hall on the left side of the upper floor.