Famous History Museum in the city of Cherepovets was opened in 1896. The earliest collections of the museum is a collection dedicated to natural history. Equally popular herbarium Petrova, MD Korovin, A. Antonov, A. Lashkevich are the oldest exhibits of the Museum of Nature and rarities. Particularly interesting ornithological and entomological collections of the Museum of Nature. With regard received at the beginning of this century entomological collections Tsekhanovich Yu, at the moment she meets all the requirements of modern science.

Beginning in 1907, it was the beginning of the formation of the fossil collections of the museum. At this time, under construction on the river harbor Yagorbe was found a huge amount of fossil bones of ancient animals. It is this collection to the greatest extent replenished in 40-70-years during the construction of a plant for processing of ferrous and nonferrous metals. A considerable number of bones of mammoths, bison and musk oxen were found in the building pits and quarries.

During the 20s of the 20th century, due to the rapid development of local history in the study of the motion of the Vologda region, in the process of including a large number of local enthusiasts. Museum of Nature has organized numerous expeditions related to the study of flora and fauna. The beneficial effects of co-operation with the Geological Committee evident in geological survey and in-depth study of deposits of building materials. Throughout the time of the Museum of Nature is constantly replenished with new exhibits, such as herbaria, rocks, mineral resources, fish and stuffed animals. It is worth noting that the greatest interest is the collection of stuffed animals, which presents a stuffed bear and four cubs, a male bear, elk, lynx, foxes, wolves and rare birds - eagles, eagle, heron.

In 1936, at the Museum of Nature was created by an experienced site-local lore nerds. This site used to promote and propagate the ideas of the Michurin IV, as well as modern agricultural techniques, the consistent continuation of the described exposure and included a beautiful garden and wonderful continuous and constant flowering, greenhouse, orchard and a large exhibition hall.

Over time, the museum's collection expanded only at the expense of not only the work of professional agents and forwarding fees, but also through gifts hospitable residents of Cherepovets. There have to be separate and collection, for example, the collection of shellfish Volkova AI or famous collection of plaster casts of mushrooms Manaeva AF, which were acquired in order to fully fund the museum exhibition issue.

Scientific-auxiliary fund of the Museum of Nature presented a huge collection of negatives and photographs, the authors of which were M. Berezovsky, Mikhailov VN, Shkuropadsky ND and many other artists. They participated in a variety of competitions, as well as published in various journals; their works were used in the design of albums related with nature, a book telling about the beauty of not only local people, but the whole of Russia. The total number of exhibits presented in the museum and the exhibits belonging to the museum fund reaches more than thirty thousand.

At the moment Museum of Nature is located on the second floor of a building located on the avenue Lunacharsky. The area of ​​the museum is 500 square meters, with exhibition space of 360 sq.m. The museum has a small room designed for training children and learned lectures. The exposition is built for the holiday-century museum in the city of Cherepovets and reflects all the natural features and characteristics of the Cherepovets district, it tells the story of a local nature.

On the firm basis of collections and exhibitions of the reserve funds is carried enormous work connected with the reception of visitors, mostly represented by students. Researcher lectures, guided tours, talks on a variety of forty natural history exhibits, art, environmental events, seminars and various other events.