The Museum is situated in a homestead built in 1842 and belonged to an owner of gold mines I.D. Astashev. Later, the Astashev manor became a residency of Bishops of Tomsk. Today the Shatilov Tomsk Regional Museum of Local Lore has 18 branches including the Memorial Museum NKVD Remand Prison, the Museum of Science Origins Gravitation Point, the Tomsk Planetarium as well as branches in Asino and Kolpashevo, Narym and Podgornoye. We conserve and study more than 216 thousand objects which part is exposed on the exhibitions. At least 10 exhibitions about history of the city and the region of Tomsk are working in the museum.