From the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries the museum existed because of donations, interest from deposits and from the income of renting out buildings.

In 1928, the Moscow archaeologist Dmitry Eding, under the mandate of the Rostov Museum, conducted archaeological research on the Sarsky hillfort.

In 1995 by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation the Rostov Kremlin Museum-Reserve was included in the state code of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia.

[4] Over the years the Rostov Museum has accumulated numerous collections containing objects of great historical, cultural and artistic value.

A large part of the collection is made up of canvases by such major 19th - 20th century artists as Ivan Aivazovsky, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Pavel Bryullov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Igor Grabar, Isaac Levitan, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin, Pyotr Petrovichev, Vasily Polenov, Aleksey Savrasov, Leonid Turzhansky, Konstantin Yuon and others.

The museum is well known for its collection of works by Russian artists of the avant-garde movement in 20th century art, such as Ivan Klyun, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Kasimir Malevich, Olga Rozova, Lyubov Popova, Nadezhda Udaltsova and Robert Falk.

In the 19th century Rostov was the main supplier of small enamelled icons of saints to most Russian Orthodox monasteries.

Their most celebrated recent creation is the canopy adorned with enamelled images of Christ and the Apostles over the entrance to the cubiculum of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Collection has more than 5000 objects and include more than 100 works of ancient sewing made by main Russian atelier of S. Saburova, Godunova, Stroganov's and M. Lugovskaya: Protection, the shroud, hanging shrouds, embroidered icons.Museum has got a hood of Metropolit Jonah, the sakkos of St. Dmitry, big collection of the church cloths, peasants and city costume.

The collection covers the period from the 18th century to the 1970s: dishes, sculpture, easter eggs, icon lamps, folk pottery, glazed tile.

The Manuscript collection includes an illuminated Synodical from the Rostov Assumption Cathedral with superb miniatures created during the time of Metropolitan Jonah.

The hagiographical miscellany compiled in the middle of the 17th century with numerous miniatures some of which illustrate important events in Russian history.

Collection consist of around 10000 objects, including items made of silver of 17th - 20th centuries, including Royal supplements from 1622 and 1624 (Censer and altar cross), supplements of Rostov metropolitan to the Rostov churches: water-sanctified bowls, censers, chalice, paten, rizas for the icons and other objects.

It displays items from the museum's collections of iconography, wood carving, painting, church utensils, weapons, decorative and applied arts, handwritten and old printed books, documents, and photographs.

During the creation of this exhibition, the curators decided to use bookcases and display cases that were used by the "Museum of Church Antiquities" at the end of the 19th century.

The exhibition introduces the history of the formation of the museum collection of enamel, gives information about the development of this craft from the 1760s to the 2010s, characterizes the changes that occurred over time in the subject of painting, technique and technology of the production.

The oldest of them come from the Paleolithic and Early Iron Age: bones and skulls of the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, primitive bull, reindeer; ceramics of the first settlers of the Lake Nero Valley; battle axes; tools of artisans.

The existence of a major political and religious center – the city of Rostov (the first mention in the chronicle – 862) – is associated with the themes shown by museum objects of later time.

Here visitors to the museum are given the opportunity to relax from traveling and get acquainted with the virtual exhibition "Information Center "Rostov Land".

The main areas of work of the Center of Bell Art are: RITM is an abbreviation that stands for Rostov Initiative Creative Youth.

A. Titov, as well as outstanding contemporary scientists and scientific institutions of the Academy of Sciences, the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Old printed books, documents with autographs of royal persons and statesmen, handwritten synodics, letters of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the cell chronicler of St. Demetrius were among the first exhibits of the Museum.

Department of Modern History and Geoinformation Systems - scientific division of the State Museum-Reserve "Rostov Kremlin".

The museumification of the building is based on the stages of its history: its existence as a dwelling house of a peasant-farmer, industrialist, merchant and philanthropist.

In the Borisoglebsky Branch, the house of the peasant Elkin, a completely new type of museum is being created, focused on the interests and needs of the local population.

The Church of St. John the Evangelist (1687) is located in the village Bogoslov, three kilometers to the southwest of Rostov, near the Ishna River.

From 1835 to 1917, the estate belonged to different generations of the merchants Kekin's family, after the October Revolution it was nationalized, and housed an agricultural technical school.

An important place in the exhibition is occupied by the theme of a major philanthropist and public figure of Alexey Leontievich Kekin (1838-1897).