Museum and Exhibition Center (Kogalym) is a platform where the most important events of the city's cultural life take place. On the basis of the museum space, projects are being implemented in the educational, educational and social spheres. Such programs as quests, Days of National Culture, master classes of folk art, thematic exhibitions and much more have gained popularity.
Description
Kogalym Museum and Exhibition Center (Tyumen region) was founded on the basis of two city museums - local history and fine arts. The opening took place in the summer of 2011. The cultural space occupies more than 1.5 thousand square meters of the basement and first floors of the modern 16-storey building. The stationary exposition is spread over an area of more than 737 square meters. meters, storage facilities occupy almost 100 square meters of space, the area for temporary exhibitions is about 37 m2.
The museum's funds contain more than 9 thousand items. The most valuable collections include:
- Khanty Ethnography includes 842 unique items.
- "Ancient lamps" consists of 36 items.
- Monotypes by Lyudmila Gainanova – 49 works.
- Works by local artists - over 160 pieces.
The permanent exhibition of the Kogalym Museum and Exhibition Center appears to the visitor as a single space of history, unique exhibits and modern technologies. The main activity of the museum is the study and preservation of the values of the North - the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Khanty and Mansi, natural resources, flora and fauna, the history of the city of Kogalym, as well as the development of the oil industry in the region.
Features
The museum and exhibition center in Kogalym is visited annually by over 40 thousand tourists. The modern interactive equipment of the halls allows visitors to get more information without the involvement of guides.
In the cinema hall of the museum you can watch 5D stereo films, on a separate site you can build a city, develop a field and mount oil rigs in 3D format, conduct experiments in the hall of entertaining science. Since 2013, the educational program "Russian Museum: Virtual Branch" has been operating in the center.
Tours
Visitors of the Kogalym Museum and Exhibition Center are invited to the following excursions:
- Overview, held in all halls and expositions.
- History and stages of development of Western Siberia.
- History of nativecities.
- Life, life of the Khanty people.
- Animal world.
- History of oil.
The museum exposition is formed on the basis of 19 collections, the largest of them are zoological, numismatic, historical and everyday, ethnographic, arts and crafts, etc. Free visits are available to citizens and guests of the city on International Museum Day.
Stands introduce the visitor to such significant topics as:
- Development of Siberia, where a unique Cossack plow and weapons from the period of the development of Siberia by Yermak are presented.
- Flora, fauna of the region.
- The history of Kogalym, the exposition includes a tent of pioneers, a railway car of that time, a reconstruction of an apartment from the 80s, etc.
- Interpenetration of cultures. The stand presents household items, clothes of the peoples of the Khanty and Russian pioneers, demonstrates the general view and arrangement of a log house, a storehouse, a residential building.
- How does oil appear? The answer to this question is given by excursions through the halls, where mammoth bones, prehistoric mollusks, and a collection of cores are presented.
- History of Lukoil-Western Siberia.
Informative and interesting
There are several rooms for children and adults where you can improve your knowledge or test scientific theories in practice. The Izobretarium hall is filled with amazing devices that you can not only touch with your hands, but use them to experiment and make a discovery. In this space, children get acquainted with the lawsphysics, mechanics, acoustics and many other sciences.
Applied entertainments have been prepared for the most inquisitive visitors: the opportunity to pass a "lie detector", create a drawing in the sand, sit on chairs with nails and many other interesting activities.
Interactive multi-display systems are especially popular for building city models. "Interactive floor" is another useful entertainment that comes to life at the slightest movement of a person. Cinema 5D immerses viewers in the space of the film, giving the opportunity to physically feel like one of the heroes of the film.
In addition, the museum is engaged in the education of the younger generation in the following areas:
- Fine arts are taught at Freckles art studio.
- The basics of sculpture are taught in the potters' studio.
- Participants of the projects "Sail of Hope", "Museum Kaleidoscope", "Museum for You" receive new knowledge and skills.
Reviews
Reviews about the museum and exhibition center of Kogalym are left only positive. Visitors note that the time of excursions passes unnoticed and is very busy. The guides love their job and tell a lot of curious details about each item on the stands. Residents of the city believe that the preservation of the recent history of the creation of the city, the development of deposits is one of the important activities of the center's employees. Many were pleased to see that things of the recent past are part of history.
Children and adults are veryI liked the halls where you can enjoy the process of experiments, build a piece of the city. Adults felt like children, and representatives of the younger generation, not in theory, but in practice, firmly mastered part of the school curriculum. The exhibited artifacts of the northern peoples of the Khanty and Mansi make an indelible impression on everyone. Their way of life and traditions are still a mystery, and the structure of life has undergone little change over several centuries.
Useful information
The Museum and Exhibition Center is located at: Druzhby Narodiv Street, building 40.
The cost of visiting the exposition for adults is 100 rubles, pensioners, students and children under 16 can visit the museum for free. The cost of excursion service is 50 rubles per person. There is a discount system for groups.
Opening hours of the Kogalym Museum and Exhibition Center: from Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00. The center's range of services includes holding memorable events - weddings, birthdays, corporate events and much more.
