Trinity-Pechora District Local History Museum named after AN Popov is a scientific and educational and research institution that is the main repository of historical monuments, objects of spiritual and material culture Pechora. The museum was born and developed thanks to the efforts of local lore enthusiasts, namely Alexander Nikolayevich Popov - high school mathematics teacher Troitsko Pechora.

The opening of the National Museum in October 1957, for it has been allocated a separate building, which used to be the home for priests Trinity Church. AN Name Popova was given to the museum in 1982 as a tribute of appreciation and gratitude to a patriot of his land. In 1982, by decision of the executive committee of the district of Trinity-Pechora for a museum new building was constructed in the former high school number 1 on the street Soviet.

Over the entire period of its existence, the museum has gained about 7 thousand exhibits, most of them represented in the museum. The exhibition dedicated to the flora and fauna is presented flora and fauna of the area. Here you can see a stuffed black woodpecker, gray crane, owl, eagle, ermine and other fauna. The exhibition dedicated to the founder of the museum, presents documents, photographs, awards, which belonged to Alexander Nikolayevich Popov.

Archaeological exhibition begins with the archaeological map of the area, which shows the 89 sites of primitive people, here you can see the diorama "Kanin cave sanctuary", presents fragments of pottery, bone and flint arrowheads, a mammoth tooth and more. Ethnographic exhibition consists of original household objects of the local population, which has about 600 museum where you can see the different types of wood and birch bark utensils, Komi clothes, fishing and hunting equipment, and Calendar. The museum housed a large collection of geological and scientific work photographs and Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve.

The whole history of the area in the museum is divided into themes: "Past and Present of the Komi culture and traditions," "Trinity-Pechora island gulag", "bow to those great years! ". In the exhibition hall of the museum set up temporary exhibitions: "The pride of the land Trinity-Pechora", "river basin Ilych," "The origins of talent - the native land", "Ural Gems", "descendants of Maxim" and others. There are exhibitions of masters of arts and crafts Panfilovich NI AN Davydov, VG Cosmina .; Larina AK, artists - Belotserkovsky IA, EV Mezentsev, Bulatoshkina VI Shvetsov, VG, Yuri Samodurov, Bazhukova FD Kulaeva GN Podolina NI Bashkova EN and others. The museum - valuable material on the history, economy and the nature of this region - incunabula old Russian books of 17-19 centuries, ethnographic and numismatic collection, the originals and copies of various historical documents.

In the historical museum to collect material related to historical events such as the Civil War and the bloody revolt in 1919 in the Trinity-Pechora, the destruction of churches, escorting the repressed citizens.

The Trinity-Pechora museum contains original documents of famous countrymen, academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, EV Kozlov - People's Artist of Russia, professor of geological sciences: VA Chizhova and VI Bgatova, Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Bazhukova NS, writers, GA Fedorov and II Pystina, IE Kulakov - the former chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

It has become a tradition to hold the event in a museum in honor of the Victory Day, the Day of Youth, International Museum Day, in memory of victims of political repression; Here meetings with veterans and home front workers, artists, masters of arts and crafts, etc.

During the existence of the museum was visited by 50 thousand people, it was held 12, 5000 excursions. In 2006 the museum won the republican competition of museums and municipalities won the grant for the project "The Road to the Temple" and "Spiritual culture of the Komi Urals."