Formation of the Archaeological Museum began in the 1870s. Jobs Cherepovets museum is associated with the name and archaeological activities EV Autograph. Since the 80s of the last century in the museum are professional historians, archaeologists. In a separate building, the Archaeological Museum is located since 1987 (Red Street, 1b). Funds of the museum has 100 thousands of ancient objects. The museum is part of the Cherepovets museum association. The exhibition includes more than 2,000 items.

Archeologists continue to study the museum's archaeological monuments of the Vologda region, collaborating with various research centers around the country. Over the past 20 years, the staff of the Archaeological Association during the excavations was discovered more than 400 archaeological sites, studied in detail more than 30 monuments of the Stone Age and the medieval period. The results of this painstaking work were investigated, it was written by members of the scientific articles. The museum fund replenished with valuable archaeological finds. The museum has a permanent exhibition entitled "From time immemorial". Every year in the departments of the Cherepovets Archaeological Museum are reporting exhibition, called "The findings of the season."

Museum visitors get acquainted with the antiquities of the Russian North, learn how people acquire various work skills - from primitive gathering, fishing and hunting to the metal, a complex process that does not occur naturally. The peculiarity of the exhibition - the approach of museum visitors (especially children) to the perception of methods of processing stone, metal, clay, wood.

On the basis of the Cherepovets museum there are two expeditions that conduct excavations. One of them deals with the study of historical monuments in the basin of the White Lake and the river Sheksna. This expedition also studied settlements and burial grounds in the rivers Sheksna Sogozha, the Court Andoga. The second archaeological expedition has been researching the monuments of primitive time (Monuments X-XIV centuries). This expedition has investigated more than a dozen sites distant Mesolithic, at this time, the edge began to be occupied by people. This expedition investigated settlements, which are located in the Cherepovets - Cathedral Hill, October bridge Uryvkovo.

For several years, the expedition of the Archaeological Museum excavated a unique historical monument in the Rybinsk Reservoir - a settlement Lukovets (this is an old Russian center, which has been known since the X century). The expedition was headed by NV Kosorukova - Researcher Cherepovets museum.

The city of Cherepovets is growing interest in the work of researchers and archaeologists. For a long time on the basis of expeditions working children from school camps, school children get their first experience of research. There are practical history students. Museum staff conduct tours and lectures for residents of the city of Cherepovets, his guests, organize the work of electives and clubs for students. The head of the Archaeological Museum - Candidate of Historical Sciences A. Kudryashov.

Currently, the Cherepovets Archaeological Museum - one of the most famous centers for the study of archaeological sites in Russia. This famous museum acquired through employee archaeologists who participate in scientific conferences, publish articles on the results of research work and cooperate with many archaeological center.