Kalyazin Museum of Local Lore occupies the building of the Epiphany Church (Bogoyavlenskaya) (1781) on the right bank of the Zhabna river. Its expositions began to be formed in 1920 by the efforts of local historian Ivan Fyodorovich Nikolsky, who saved priceless objects including samples of ancient tiles and frescoes from the St. Macarius Monastery.