State Historical and Cultural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve is situated in the old part of Stavropol, in the former building of shopping malls, erected in 1873. The building, which houses a museum and is today a landmark building, designed by architect PK Nikiforov.

Museum-Reserve was founded in February 1905 as a museum of local history profile of the North Caucasus. Its centerpiece is ethnographic and archaeological collections in the famous Russian scientist and public figure GN Prozriteleva. In parallel with the local history museum was created by the City Museum educational visual aids thanks to the initiative of a public figure, a notary, a vowel City Council GK Right. In 1927, the museum educational visual aids and Museum of the North Caucasus have merged into one institution, then the museum was renamed the Stavropol State Museum-Reserve named GK Terms & GN Prozriteleva.

The museum's collection is diverse and reflects its history. In general, the museum has more than 300 thousand. Museum exhibits. The main exhibition is presented in three halls: nature, archeology and ethnography. The most interesting and valuable paleontological collection is where unique skeletons of the southern elephant, rhino-elasmoteriya and whale-tsetoteriya. Great scientific interest in the natural history of zoological, botanical, entomological and mineralogical collections of the museum.

Significant place in the Museum-Reserve took and archaeological collection, which presents a collection of weapons. About 40% of the museum occupies a documentary photo archive, which is shown in detail in the history of the region XX century.

The composition of the Stavropol museum-reserve includes: picture gallery of landscapes Grechishkina rm .; Museum-Estate Smirnov VI a memorial Khetagurova KL .; Museum of history of the Cossacks, natural and archaeological museum "Tatar settlement."