In the village centre Elan Volgograd region is a wooden building with a tall "tower" roof and beautifully carved porch. In the building, stylized as "Russian classics", is located the historical Museum, founded in 1961 as a room Glory at the house of pioneers. The Museum was created through the efforts of teachers, local historians, war veterans and lovers of antiquity.

Nowadays Elancecom historical Museum the main exhibition dedicated to the culture and life Elanskogo district. Of greatest interest is the exhibition "the Colonization of this territory in the 17th and 18th centuries", the ethnographic details of everyday life and traditional crafts them Elanskaya residents of the settlement. In "the peasant's hut" provides tools farmer, cattleman, potters, wood carvers and masters of wickerwork, bast and bark. Also interesting and traditionally female crafts: weaving, fiber processing, sewing and embroidery clothes. From documentary and historical exhibits presented materials on the Zemstvo doctor A. A. Ternovsky, built over a hundred years ago local hospital, functioning to this day, about the poet-revolutionary I. Zelensky and Elansky the merchants patrons.

In addition to "the old Elan" the Museum offers bus tours in the next Elan village where ancient Krichevsky monastery, the monument - the monastery spring, the architectural monument - Duhososhestvenskaya Church, hanging bridge at the confluence of two rivers Elan and TERS. In the Park next to the Museum is a memorial to the heroes of his countrymen with the monument is the grave of G. N. Pechersk.