Museum and Exhibition Center "Tula Antiquities" is located in the center of Tula in the old estate previously owned by a famous and very rich merchant Yermolaev-Zverev. After the revolution of 1917 this house passed under State control. And in 1993 Municipal Historical-Archeological Museum named after N.I. Troitsky - famous Tula ethnographer and public figure - was opened. In 1997 Museum and Exhibition Center "Tula Antiquities" became a branch establishment of State Museum of Military History and Natural Reserve "Kulikovo Field". Today our museum has two expositions:"The Narration of MamaiMassacre" and "The Secrets of Tula Craftsmen".

    Exposition "The Narration of Mamai Massacre" has been working in the museum since 2015. Its major motto is: "Touching is permitted!" Exposition structure includes several game cognitive topics for children and grown-up visitors. Here one may compose chronicle miniatures, listen to the sounds of Middle Ages, work in armorer's workshop and weave a ring-mail, feel the weight of armor and try on armors of Russian and horde warriors. The historical trip over Mamai massacre is concluded on game battlefield, where the hosts of Dmitry Donskoy and Mamai are located.

    "The Secrets of Tula Craftsmen" is a unique exposition. You have a great opportunity to visit a Russian Izba (a small peasant house made of wood) with an interior of the 16th century. According to the excursion, the izba belongs to craftsmenof modest means. It consists of three sectors: "dwelling part", "pottery" and "smithy". This exposition is quite extraordinary sincethere you can touch and examine all the things with your own hand and even tastethem. In the "dwelling" part you will be acquainted with real life of Russian peasants, their traditions and order of a day. In the "pottery" you will learn about pottery traditions of Tula region and have an opportunity to paint a clay toy the way it did potters hundreds years ago. Also, during excursion you will learn about iron production. Tula is the city of smiths, and you may become one of them and make a souvenir coin by yourself