Samara's biggest and most comprehensive museum has displays on everything to do with Samara and the surrounding region. There are exhibits on archaeology and paleontology in the region, including dinosaur bones that were discovered locally. The ethnographical section has exhibits about the people who lived in the Volga area long before Samara existed. The modern history section is heavy on Samara during World War Two and there are also religious, art and nature collections among many other subjects. The museum has three affiliates in other parts of Samara. The Kurlin Mansion (Frunze Ul., #159. Tel: 233-2498. Open Tues-Sun 10-18) mainly covers the history of the city of Samara from 1586 until the start of the 20th Century. They make you wear ridiculous, big slippers over your shoes so you don't harm the floorboards. The House-Museum of Mikhail Frunze (Frunze Ul., #114. Tel: 233-6636. Open Mon-Sat 10-18) is devoted to the Russian Civil War in general. But maybe the biggest attraction is the House-Museum of the Ulyanov Family (Leninskaya Ul., #131. Tel: 232-3668. Open Mon-Sat 9-17), which is the house where the young Lenin lived with his family from 1890-93. Admission to each museum costs 15R ($0.55) for students, 30R ($1.10) for adults and 60R ($2.20) for foreigners.
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