Voronezh's Regional Museum was established in 1894 in three rooms of the City Duma. During the war most of the museum's artefacts were evacuated and it was reopened afterwards. It moved to its present location in an early-20th century building which was used as a school for the blind in 1959. The main exposition in the museum is dedicated to the history of Voronezh lands and focuses on archaeological finds and the city's history of shipbuilding up to the civil war and the space race. In addition the museum has separate exhibitions on butterflies, the animal kingdom and weapons.