Astrakhan State United Historical -Architectural Museum - Reserve - the oldest regional museums in Russia. Today, the museum - reserve includes 14 branches , five of them are located in Astrakhan , nine - in the districts . The museum has restoration and art workshops , taxidermy laboratory joinery . The museum's collection includes more than 300,000 objects and is very diverse . It includes unique natural - scientific collections - archaeological, ethnographic , numismatic , taxidermy collection of flora and fauna , and many others.