Mozhajskij historical museum is a branch of the State Borodino Military History Museum. In 1905, when the local country council organized a museum of visual aids to help students. With the assistance of the Countess PS Uvarova he gradually turned into Local History. The museum exhibits were transferred from the rich collection of Count Uvarov, are stored in the estate Riverlands Mozhaiskogo County.

After the February Revolution of 1917, the museum was left unsupervised. Its exhibits Mozhaiskoye went to schools, partly come to the museum, organized by local cooperatives. This museum existed before the fire of 1920, when almost all of its exhibits were lost in the fire. In the 1920s, the efforts of local ethnographers NI Vlasyevo, head of Historical and Archaeological Society section Mozhaiskogo ethnographers, and VI Gorokhov, a local chronicler, the museum was revived.

Before the outbreak of hostilities in 1941, the museum's collection were evacuated to the Regional Museum of Istria, where the war for various reasons have not returned. Mozhajskij historical museum was reopened in 1981, the 750th anniversary of the city. Since 1986, the museum becomes a branch of the State Borodino Military History Museum.

In 1985 in Mozhaisk it opened House Museum of Folk Artist of the USSR SV Gerasimov, who in 1990 became a branch of the State Borodino military historical museum-reserve and entered the structure Mozhaiskogo History Museum. Funds of the museum include collections of historical and everyday objects, archaeological finds, documents and photos of the collection, paintings and drawings Mozhaiskiye artists SV Gerasimov and his students. Currently, the museum has an exhibition hall and a permanent exhibition in the House museum SV Gerasimov.