On July 15, the State Public Historical Library of Russia will host a lecture “Church Museums: History and Modernity” prepared by O.G. Kiryanova, a researcher at the State Research Institute of Restoration and author of the monograph “Church Museums of Central Russia”, who will tell about the history of religious museums in the pre-revolutionary period and about modern museums that have appeared in recent decades both at small churches and at large monasteries, diocesan institutions and educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.