The building at Popova Street, 2-a, has been home to the Belgorod State Historical and Local Lore Museum since 1991.

This museum, one of the oldest cultural institutions in the region, was opened on October 25, 1924, as a branch of the Kursk Provincial Museum. Initially, it was located in the premises of the former men's Trinity Monastery. Soon, the museum's collections were gathered, which at that time numbered about eight thousand items.

During the Great Patriotic War, all museum valuables were destroyed and looted by fascist occupiers. After the war, a new collection of exhibits began, and on August 5, 1948, the museum resumed its work at house No. 42 on Frunze Street.

In 1964, the museum was granted regional status. On October 22, 1973, it opened to visitors in the building of the Transfiguration Cathedral. In 1991, when the cathedral building was returned to the Orthodox Church, the museum moved to a new specially built building designed by architect V.V. Vishnevsky. In January 1994, the exhibition "Returning Memory of the Past..." was opened, which introduces unique natural monuments of the region, the diversity of its flora and fauna, and highlights the history of the region from ancient times to the present day. Currently, the museum's collections number over 160,000 exhibits.

The museum is visited by more than 100,000 people annually. It has branches, including the federally significant memorial "In Honor of the Heroes of the Kursk Battle" and the educational center "Fortress City 'Yablonov'."