The village of Kideksha, the medieval residence of Prince Yuri Dolgoruky of Suzdal, is located 4 kilometers east of Suzdal. Here, a church dedicated to the first Russian saints, Boris and Gleb, has been preserved. Built in 1152, this church is the oldest stone structure in the Russian North-East and laid the foundation for the magnificent white-stone architecture of Vladimir-Suzdal.

The exhibition hall of the Gorokhovets Historical and Architectural Museum was opened in 2010 in the house of Semyon Semyonychev, a second guild merchant. Its friendly atmosphere and state-of-the-art equipment make the exhibition hall one of the favourite cultural entertainment places for the residents and guests of Gorokhovets. Visitors can attend district-, region-, and nation-level rotating exhibitions. They feature paintings, masterpieces of applied craftsmanship, and works of famous photographers, as well as authentic antiques from the stock collections of the Gorokhovets Museum and relics of travelling exhibitions of the country's museums.

The Pokrovsky Convent founded in 1364 is known to be the place where during the 16th-17th centuries more than twenty aristocratic women were cloistered, including the spouses of Vasily the Third, Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great. According to the legend of the Reverend Euthimius of Suzdal, the Pokrovsky nunnery was founded by the Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod Prince Andrey Konstantinovich in 1363–1364.

The museum's art collections stem from the collection of Count Aleksey Uvarov (1824–1884) and Countess Praskovya Uvarova (1840–1924) from the Karacharovo estate near Murom. The collection was brought to the Museum in 1918.

Oparins' House is of great interest for researchers of civil architecture of Old Russian towns of the 17th century and is one of the most remarkable historical and cultural monuments of Gorokhovets. Unlike other merchant's palaces of the period, the house has undergone few changes and retains an almost pristine appearance.