In the center of the village of Elan Volgograd region is a wooden building with a high "Terem" roof and a beautiful carved porch. The building, stylized "Russian Classics" is located historical museum, established in 1961 as the Battle of Fame room of the house of pioneers. The museum was created through the efforts of teachers, local historians, war veterans and lovers of antiquity.

Today in Elanskaya historical museum exposition is dedicated to the basic culture and life Elan area. Of greatest interest is the exhibition "Moving to the edge of 17-18 centuries." Ethnographic details of everyday life and traditional crafts residents Yelanskaya settlement. The "peasant's hut" presented tools farmer, cattleman, potter, woodcarver and master of wickerwork, bast and bark. Also interested in traditionally female crafts: weaving, fiber, sewing and embroidery clothes. From the documentary and historical exhibits are presented materials about the country doctor AA Ternovskiy, lined up more than a hundred years ago, the village hospital, functioning to this day, the poet-revolutionary and Elan I.Zelenskom merchants patrons.

In addition to "walk in the old Elan" museum offers coach tours in the coming Elan villages where the ancient Kraishevsky monastery natural monument - the monastery spring, an architectural monument - Duhososhestvenskaya church, a suspension bridge at the confluence of two rivers Elan and Tersa. The park next to the museum is a memorial to the heroes of his countrymen with the monument-grave GN Pechersky.