Pikalevsky History Museum opened in mid-1978. The most important part of the museum is an exhibit center, acting at the school, which was located in the small village Spirovo Boksitogorsky area. For the most part all the declared items were a household or ethnographic objects, as well as photographs and documents relating to the historical development and the outcome of World War II (1941-1945 years). Today the museum's collection numbers about 14 thousand a variety of exhibits.

In the process of sorting and stock acquisition of museum collections the utmost attention paid to household objects and ethnographic exhibits. Everything connected with ceramics, was presented in the form of pottery, tiles, equipped with stamps and made on a private factory by the name of a wealthy landowner Pirozersky, who was in the village of Okulov and operated until 1918.

The district until 1915 their activities were two plant for the production of glass, one of which was called Ivanovo and was located in the village of Vella, and the second - Bystroretsky plant. Products of these factories are presented in Pikalevo museum of local lore in the form of container glass. In addition, special interest and the available porcelain and crockery factories Terekhova-Kiselev, Kuznetsova, Kornilov brothers was in the hands of the local merchants.

During the period from 1993 to 1996, numerous ethnographic objects that are in the collections of local history museum, were exhibited in the Russian Museum of Ethnography. It is worth noting that only by presenting subjects Pikalevo Museum is almost completely restored the situation Karelian Old Believer chapel. This collection has absorbed ancient manuscripts and early printed church books, while there are high-value items, dating from the last years of the 18th century.

In Pikalevo Museum is the place to be and an exhibition of ancient Russian art, including the subscription of the icon, which was performed Artemihom - Tikhvin painter, as well as valuable Old Believer icons, the famous icon of the Smolensk Mother of God, which at one time was put in the framework of the Belgian exhibition entitled "Russian Icon ".

The museum exhibition is a collection of graphs relating to the period of formation of the Soviet regime - a collection of works by one of the most talented professors of the Academy of Arts V. Vetrogonsky, which is devoted to the native city of Pikalevo. From Vetrogonsky creations can be noted and a series of works related to the history of the Russian Navy, as well as unique graphic works and paintings by local artists.

The greatest delight of the visitors is the archaeological collection Pikalevo Museum, which tells the story of the great history of the development of society, from the 4th millennium BC and ending with the 13th century AD. A unique collection of rich fragments of modeled ceramics, flint tools, the bones of some animals, a variety of tools, made of metal, as well as weapons. The pride of steel buckle, made of bronze, on which there is an image of a bird - this thing relates to the period of 11-12 centuries and has no analogues in the world. Among the variety of archaeological objects presented as part of this collection is to provide fragments of vessels dating 16-17 centuries BC. On the ruins of the vessel can be seen the inscription, most likely written in the ancient Indo-European language. It is particularly noteworthy that the vessel fragment was found on the territory of modern Russia.

To reach the museum you can from the city of St. Petersburg, to leave the Moscow Railway Station and get off at Pikalevo, then transfer to a bus or a bus from the stop to the bypass line and to Pikalevo, or by car via the St. Petersburg highway through the Volkhov and Tikhvin right up to the Pikalevo.