The Kursk Region Museum of Archaeology was founded in 1991. The museum was originally located in the Trinity Church until 1993 when it moved to its present location in the building known as Boyar Romodanovsky's Chambers. A legend exists that Stepan Razin was imprisoned here in 1671, but experts believe the house dates from the mid-18th century at the earliest. The museum's exhibits include examples of tools, ornaments, jewellery coins and weapons found in archaeological digs.