ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the history of the rise of the regional museums movement. Building up on the regional case studies, the chapter outlines some regional patterns of the development of the kraevedenie museums across the country. The process of the development of ‘Soviet kraevedenie museum’ has started in 1921, and in the following decades, the strict idea of how the permanent displays of regional museums shall look like have been developed and implemented. Finally, this chapter discusses the centre–periphery relationships in the cultural context of the former Soviet Union and outlines the fact that unlike ethnographical Imperial collections objects and artefacts quite often stayed in the local museums, in a place they belonged to.
