One of the unique buildings in the city of Kirov is the Diorama Museum, which is now part of the regional local history museum. This building, designed in the shape of a huge unfurled banner with a stone bas-relief, was opened in 1977 in honor of the anniversary of the October Revolution.

On the first floor of the museum, there are various exhibitions dedicated to the everyday life of the townspeople and the life of a provincial city. The second floor features a large diorama canvas titled 'Vyatka. 1917', depicting the events of that pivotal year that changed the country's history.

The authors of this large-scale work are artist Nikolai Solomin, a laureate of the Moscow Komsomol award, and Arkady Intezarov, a distinguished figure in the arts of the RSFSR. It took them three years to create the diorama. The artists made sketches from life, studied the streets, houses, and townspeople, talked to locals, and worked with archives.

The size of the canvas is 8 by 35 meters, with a total area of 280 square meters. The diorama depicts the intersection of Nikolayevskaya and Spasskaya streets, now Lenin and Drelevsky, at the moment of an armed demonstration of soldiers and workers. The canvas features more than 150 characters, each of which is meticulously detailed. Among them, one can recognize some representatives of the party majority in Vyatka and the intelligentsia of that time.

The diorama accurately reproduces the events of December 1, 1917, when an important demonstration took place in the city. The painting is full of details that convey the atmosphere of a winter day, which the artists carefully worked on, even while working outdoors in December.

The diorama museum also features other exhibitions that tell about the lives of townspeople at the turn of the century and during the Bolshevik Revolution. Visitors can take a tour called 'Walks Through the Old City', learn about the development of entrepreneurship in the early last century, and get acquainted with the lives of notable townspeople, such as photographer Alexander Vitberg.

The museum also offers educational programs. There are clubs on the history of the region for schoolchildren and students, as well as a 'Family' club.