The Ocher Local History Museum, which is only 79 years old, is a young but significant place for studying the rich history of the Ocher district. This area is known for its industrial history, ancient reptiles, and diverse fossils.

The museum began its activities on April 4, 1941, in the premises of the district newspaper "Stalin's Stakhanovite." The initiators of its creation were Valentina Martemyanova Tiunova and Alexander Vasilyevich Netsvetaev.

Four years later, the museum moved to the Young Naturalists' Station, where it remained until 1953. Under the leadership of A. V. Netsvetaev, important discoveries were made, such as the findings of Volkovskite, manganese ore, and the burial sites of ancient reptiles. In 1953, the museum relocated to the House of Pioneers and changed its location six more times, temporarily storing exhibits in the house of a local historian.

In 1971, after the death of the first director, the museum was named in his honor, becoming the Ocher Local History Museum named after A. V. Netsvetaev. In 1974, thanks to Valentina Ilyinichna Tiunova, the museum received the first floor of the building at 40 Lenin Street, the former house of merchant Starkov, built in the 19th century. The main exhibition was housed here until 2000.

In the autumn of 2000, the museum moved to a new building, where it is located now. This building, a monument of 19th-century architecture, previously served as the office of a noble factory. With its majestic white columns, it is considered one of the most beautiful in Ocher. In 2009, museum staff opened the "Permian Period Park," featuring replicas of skeletons of Permian reptiles that lived here about 250 million years ago. The original skeletons have been transferred to the Museum of Perm Antiquities and the Paleontological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The museum features seven exhibitions. The exhibition "Ancient Nature. Yezhov Excavations" tells about the discovery of the Yezhov locality of Permian reptiles, the flora and fauna of that time, as well as excavations and research by the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Special attention is given to the Ice Age and geological surveys in the Ocher district. The pride of the exhibition is the diorama of the Yezhov excavations with augmented reality.

The exhibition "Ocher, the Estate of the Stroganovs" allows visitors to travel back in time, strolling through the old streets of the city, factory workshops, churches, and merchant shops. It is presented with photographs, documents, and household items of that time.

"The Mystery of the Factory Cash Desk" recreates the factory office with accounting and cash documents, personal settlement books of workers, and a tunnel through which a theft was committed in the 19th century.

The exhibition "Peasant Hut" is arranged to create the feeling of being in a wooden peasant house. Here, visitors can learn about household items, utensils, mythology, and traditions of that time.

The museum also provides information about the more than 200-year history of the Ocher Theater, the main crafts and trades, as well as the participation of Ocher residents in the Great Patriotic War and other military conflicts.