Azov Regional Museum - this is one of the city's main attractions. It is located in the historic center of the city, near the monument to Peter I, a former city council, which was built in 1892 on the money of merchants in the eclectic style.

Azov Regional Museum is very big, it covers an area of ​​about 78 sq. M. m. The museum includes the territory of the Azov fortress XVIII century. Alekseevskaya with gates, ramparts and the powder magazine, the historic center of the XIX century., the house-museum of the famous polar explorer R. Samoilovich, as well as an exhibition hall "Patron". The funds of the regional museum there are more than 320 thousand. Interesting exhibits.

Reserve museum holds the richest fossil collection in the south of the country. The most popular museum exhibits enjoys Russia's only skeleton trogonteriya, whose age is 600 thousand. Years. Also, the museum has another unique paleontological exhibits - dinothere skeleton, which has 5 million. Years.

In the Azov Museum of Local History is stored and exhibited a large collection of archaeological Bronze Age, Iron Age, the Middle Ages, written sources and photographs, collections of coins, textiles, handicrafts, clothing XIX - XX century., Metals and so on. The pride of the museum is the exhibition entitled "Treasures of the Eurasian nomads."

A large part of the museum exhibition devoted to the struggle of the Don Cossacks of the Azov fortress. In the museum you can see a large colorful diorama, which depicts the capture of the Turkish Azov in 1637 the Don Cossacks. Found in the fortress armor, weapons, cannon balls, Turkish miniatures and paintings reminiscent of the siege of Azov, while 15000th Cossack garrison of about four months Azov was defended by the Turkish army. Also, military attributes saturated exposition dedicated to the grand event of the XVIII century.

Many collections of local lore museum were exhibited in countries such as Japan, Switzerland, France, Scotland, Austria, Germany.