Furmanov

It is created in 1987 as branch of the Ivanovo art museum with the purpose of preservation of the creative heritage of Russian artist Dmitry Alekseevich Trubnikov.
Since 1992 the gallery became municipal. The building in which the gallery is situated is a monument of wooden architecture of the middle of XIX century., included in old believer's merchant manor Gorbunov-Losev. Basically the lay-out and furnishing of interiors is kept. The private residence has three floors with a basement and an underground tunnel. The house is decorated by the stone hall and a verandah with an exit in the ancient park. The basic part of the fund collection includes the works of fine arts. Among them it is necessary to note the big collection of painting and graphic works of D.A.Trubnikov,and the works of his pupils. The greatest interest arouses the works of professor of painting, People's artist of Russia Maksimov K.M. and the collection of bronze sculptures of other pupil of Trubnikov J.G.Ushakov. Besides these works paintings of modern Ivanovo and Fourmanov artists are kept in the gallery, there is a collection of numismatics and a collection ancient Russian painting of XVII I-XIX centuries.
In picture gallery there are 7 showrooms, in three of them there are permanent expositions:
- A memorial hall of artist D.A.Trubnikov
- "Russian log hut" is an exposition telling about the way of life of Russian peasantry at the end of XIX - beg.of XX century - "The merchant Sereda" - an exposition telling about the history of the city,the origin of the textile industry in the region.  

It is created in November, 1996 to the 80 - anniversary of M.A.Dudin's birthday. The basis of the museum's fund is materials about life and creativity of the poet and M.A.Dudin's literary collections. Among valuable exhibits there are books from personal library of the poet.
The biggest part of fund is made up of study of local lore materials: paintings of artists V.Zhuravlev and J.Pjatov with the views of nearby surroundings, photos of various periods of life of the poet, notes of the songs written on his verses, audiocassettes of the songs performed on Doudin festivals, personal belongings and records of a voice of the poet, and also compositions and drawings of the students of Fourmanov and regional schools, the journalist materials devoted to M.Dudin and collected in one book «Everything, that sounded in the soul of my life».
The following themes are presented In the exposition of the museum:” I have met the life in the village”, “Love and nature called me to the poetry”, ”His fighting line”, ”The word about solar man”, ”The last shelter”, ”Gifts to the museum”. 

The house in which in 1891 Dmitry Andreevich Fourmanov the Soviet writer (novels "Chapaev", "Mutiny", "The Red landing", etc.), comissar of the legendary Chapaev divisions was born and spent his early childhood.
The building has been built in the second half XIX century and belonged to grocery trader Medvedev. On a ground floor of a house there was a tavern, on the second - the rooms where family Furmanov rented a room till 1897.
In 1951 the library named after D.A.Furmanov was opened in the house. In 1958 with the help of all city dwellers public museum had been opened, exhibits for which were collected by pupils of schools. In 1964 the museum was awarded with a rank of national, and in 1968 the museum gets the status of state museum as a branch of Ivanovo museum of regional study. Nowadays it is the branch of Ivanovo association of historic revolutionary museums.