The Transcarpathian Museum of Local Lore was founded on June 20, 1945, when the People's Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine adopted a resolution on the organization in Uzhgorod of the People's Museum of Transcarpathian Ukraine. To accommodate its exposition, 17 rooms were allocated in the house of the former committee management (now there is a regional art museum named after him. Y. Bokshaya). Transcarpathian Museum of Local Lore was created on the basis of ethnographic and natural history collections of the former Uzhgorod Land Museum. In the spring of 1947, the museum moved to Uzhgorod Castle, where it is still located. The first exposition in the new location was opened in 1948 with the departments of nature, history, ethnography and socialist construction. In 1950, the museum was replenished with valuable archaeological and historical collections of the former Legotsky Museum (Moscow). Mukachevo), and in the early 1960s — a valuable exposition of the folk costume of Transcarpathia.