Konakovsky Museum was founded in May 1979, the museum has been allocated one-bedroom apartment on the street Energy. Creating a museum pensioners enthusiasts. Council of Museums across the street committees appealed to the people of Konakovo requesting transfer museum are of interest to the history of objects household utensils, tools, clothing, crafts.

In 1982 he arrived in Konakovo VD Trubin, who had experience in museum work. Since then, the activities of the museum considerably quickened. Trubin traveled throughout the area, pictures of the sights and then made large-format photographs. Out shots Konakovsky area attractions was an exhibition.

In 1984, the museum opened. The museum has also been credited with materials from the flooded reservoir Ivankovskoye Korcheva city. With the direct participation of the inhabitants of the former Korcheva it made a map diagram of the streets and Urban Development Korcheva. Now Korcheva the museum dedicated a separate section, the exhibits tell of its history, from the first mention until it flooded.

Museum has been allocated a separate room, and in 1988 awarded the status of National. At the same time it was decided to convert it into a branch of Tver (then Kalinin) United Museum.

Exposure Konakovsky regional museum tells the history of this region since its colonization by people. Opens its section on natural resources of the region, its physical and geographic characteristics, are presented information about its major natural objects and colorful map of the area with samples of minerals and soils, photographs of protected areas and landscapes.

The Bronze Age is represented by finds Fatyanovo culture Turginovskom cemetery, among them - clay vessels, stone axes, flint tools and weapons. The culture of the province's population in the days of ancient Russia and the Middle Ages characterized by the materials of archaeological research Zagorje burial mounds, fences, and other Glinnikov Villages. Household items, tools, iron, bronze, bone, glass ornaments tell of local employment and help restore male and female costumes, elements of spiritual life, including and features of the funeral rite. Also of interest are the archaeological finds from the ancient town Vertyazina (now the village of Gorodnya).

On the development of these places in the late feudalism tell copies of unique documents (the originals are kept in the central archives of the country), portraits and books related to famous people of the time. The exhibition includes a travel card of Catherine II on the Volga, which was first mentioned village Korcheva. You can also see items it was up medallions Earl F. Tolstoy, faience factory Auerbach.

The exhibition, which is devoted to the period of capitalism, represented objects of peasant life and implements the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Presented in the museum documents, portraits, letters are evidence of an edge, AD Menshikov, the Decembrists Yakushkina IJ and YN Tolstoy, poets Polezhaeva AI, IA Shishkov and others.

The museum also contains materials on the construction of the Ivankovo ​​Reservoir.

Exhibit Karacharovo tells about the artist G. Gagarin

The museum has about 10 thousand items. He constantly holds various exhibitions and participated in numerous festivals.