Local History Museum is located in the Kiev region of Donetsk. This museum is engaged in scientific and research activities.

The museum was created in 1924. And the initiator of the museum is the AA Olshanchenko, who was a professor of geography at the Donetsk mining college. Students Simakov AI and Lavrinenko VP deposited the mineralogical collection of the museum and factory workers in the steel industry have given the museum its numismatic collection.

In 1925, the museum has been allocated for the first room, it was an area of ​​50 square meters. Already in 1926 the museum opened to the public. Throughout the year, it was visited by 1,900 people, and the foundation of the museum at that time was about 2,000 different items.

In 1927 the museum was transferred to a club named after Lenin in the Larinke. In 1938 the museum redeveloped in Stalin Museum of the Revolution. And in 1940 we joined with the Museum of the Revolution of Mariupol.

In the years when Donetsk was okkupirova, most of the collection was lost, and the museum itself quite badly damaged. In 1943, the museum was renovated. In 1950 the museum moves into the new building. There were five rooms with a total area of ​​334 square meters. In 1950 the museum convey some of the museum Mariupol.

In 1954 the museum moved again to the Donetsk regional library named after NK Krupskaya There has been allocated an area of ​​1000 square meters. During 1970-1990, the museum has organized an annual expedition to replenish the fund of the museum.

In December 1972 the museum moved to a separate building, which is located on the street Chelyuskintsev. There he is, and to date. Although the original building was built for the music school, but was transferred to the museum.