In the early 1950s, the local history movement among schoolchildren began to rise, leading to the creation of school museums. One of the first such museums appeared in Kiknur School. When local residents started visiting it, the idea of creating a collective farm local history museum emerged. The executive committee of the Yaran District Council of Workers' Deputies, in agreement with the management of the Kiknur collective farm, allocated a separate building for the museum in the center of the village on Cooperative Street, now Lenin Street. Thus, on July 3, 1960, the school museum was transformed into the Kiknur Collective Farm Museum, which later became the Kiknur District Local History Museum on a voluntary basis. The museum was managed by a council of 15 people, including leaders and specialists from collective farms, the editorial board of the district newspaper, teachers, local historians, students, and retirees. The creation of the museum sparked interest in studying the history of the native land.

In the 1960s and 70s, the museum's exhibition included over 4,000 exhibits and consisted of six sections: "Nature of the Local Area," "History of the Pre-Revolutionary Past," "October and the Civil War," "Our Region During the Construction of Socialism," "Our Countrymen in the Great Patriotic War," and "Kiknur District in the Post-War Period."

In 1976, the museum suffered from a fire that destroyed a large part of the exhibits and documents. In 1976-1977, new exhibits were collected, and a new building was constructed. In the 1980s, when the title of "People's Museum" was introduced for public museums, the Kiknur Museum was the first in the region to receive this title. In 1982, the Kirov State United Historical, Architectural, and Literary Museum was established based on the regional local history museum, and all district museums became its branches, including the Kiknur Museum. This union lasted until 1997, after which the museum became an independent division of the district culture department. In 2002, it was named after Viktor Alexeyevich Sharygin, and at the end of 2005, it received the status of a municipal institution. In July 2011, the museum became a municipal state institution.

The modern exhibition of the museum includes four halls: nature, history of the region, participation of Kiknur residents in the Great Patriotic War, folk arts and crafts, as well as a hall of harness and agricultural tools from the 15th to 19th centuries and an exhibition hall. A separate room houses the blacksmithing department from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The museum conducts over 160 events and excursions, including "Lessons of Courage, Bread, Peace," meetings with interesting people and veterans, Days of Remembrance and Gratitude. The museum's collections number over 15,000 exhibits, of which 6,500 are part of the main collection. The exhibits are distributed among collections: natural sciences, archaeology, sound recordings, numismatics, ethnography, photographs, and documents. The museum actively engages in cultural, educational, scientific research, and methodological work aimed at preserving cultural heritage.