Museum business in Perm has gone through the same stages of formation and development as in all of Russia, and began with private collecting and gathering. Museums of the Perm Territory began to be created from the end of the 19th century. thanks to scientific and technological progress, the presence of an educated population and the need of the intelligentsia in educational activities. Many museum organizations of the region are either branches of the Perm Museum of Local Lore, or have opened on a corporate (private) basis.
Perm Museum of Local Lore
The museum has been operating in Perm since 1890. It is located in the most beautiful building of the old city. Previously, it belonged to Nikolai Vasilyevich Meshkov, a well-known merchant and philanthropist in Russia, the founder of the local university. The unique collections of the museum consist of more than 600 thousand exhibits and reflect the life of the Kama region from ancient times. Every year the main museum of the Perm region receives 200 thousand visitors. The exhibition is of particular interest.items of Permian animal style.
Local history museums of the Perm region
The interactive museum of Permian antiquities was set up in the regional capital using advanced technologies and exhibits local paleontological finds: animal remains, including stuffed mammoths, and plants. He specializes in children's educational programs.
Answering the question of what museums there are in the Perm Territory, one cannot ignore the Museum of Archeology of the Perm Cis-Urals, created in 2003 at the local Humanitarian and Pedagogical University to educate students and everyone who loves native local history.
The ethnographic park of the history of the Chusovaya River is located on the banks of the favorite river of the writer Viktor Astafyev Arkhipovka and is dedicated to the peasant life of the Chusovsky district. Here are collected unique samples of residential, industrial and public buildings of the 19th century.
Gornozavodsk Museum of Local Lore. M. P. Starostina was founded in 1967 and subsequently named after its first director, local historian and member of the allied Geographical Society. It has a rich collection of shells, minerals, coins, fine and decorative arts. The Gornozavodsky district itself is famous for finding the first Russian diamond on its territory in 1829 and is the cradle of diamond mining.
Immeasurable riches and significant historical events became the sources for the creation of a large number of other local history museums in Permregions: Osinsky, Solikamsky, Komi-Permyatsky, Kungursky, Lysvensky and Cherdynsky.
History Museums
Since 1989, the Museum of the History of the Perm Region has been operating in the ancient village of Verkhniye Mully, where Pugachev's detachment was defeated by the tsarist troops in 1773. Museum exhibits tell about outstanding countrymen, local archaeological finds, domestic interiors, national costumes.
The most important historical events that took place in Perm also reflect the expositions of the Museum of the History of the Motovilikhinsk Plants, the Memorial Complex on Vyshka Mountain, the Dobryansk Museum of Local History, and the Stroganov Chambers in Usolye.
Specialized museums
The architectural and ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka" is located 43 km from Perm. Here, since 1980, on an area of 40 hectares, 23 ancient restored monuments of wooden architecture have been presented in combination with magnificent landscapes on the high cape of the Kama reservoir. Traditional folk holidays and historical festivals are held on the territory of the museum.
The Diaghilev House in Perm is part of the gymnasium named after him and is located in a family mansion in 1852 designed by the architect R. O. Karvovsky in the style of late classicism, where in the 19th century the local intelligentsia gathered to play music and stage performances, and now there is a small exposition. S. P. Diaghilev spent his childhood and youth here. In the concert hall of the gymnasium, a monument was erected to him - one of the last works of the outstanding sculptor E. Neizvestny.
In Solikamsk, at the confluence of the Borovaya River into the Kama, there is the only plant-museum in Russia - the Ust-Borovsky s alt plant. The enterprise was founded by the merchant A. V. Ryazantsev in 1882 on the site of s alt mines and operated until 1972. Tourists will be told about the interesting history of the city with numerous sights and technologies for producing Permyanka s alt.
Art Museums
The Art Gallery of Perm was opened in 1922 on the basis of the collection of the art department of the local scientific and industrial museum, which had works by the painters Vereshchagin, Gushchin, Svedomsky, wooden sculptures, samples of valuable sewing, icons and church items. In the future, the exposition was repeatedly replenished at the expense of the state and private individuals, now it is located in the building of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the 19th century, built by a native of the Perm province, academician of architecture I. I. Sviyazev. Gallery employees collect art objects on numerous expeditions, and also cooperate with domestic and foreign collectors.
The Museum of Modern Art is the only institution of its kind outside the two capitals. It was created in Perm in 2009 by Senator S. Gordeev and the famous gallery owner M. Gelman. The collection consists of works of conceptual art by several generations of Russian artists made of non-traditional materials: sand, unbaked clay, adhesive tape, cardboard, foam rubber and others. This museum of the Perm region is an interactive platform for communicationartists with spectators and attracts many visitors of different ages.
Artistic organizations such as the Solikamsk Museum of Ancient Russian Art and the Tchaikovsky Art Gallery also deserve attention.
Museums of the Perm region for children
In September 2018, the opening after the reconstruction of the "Scientific Entertainment Park" is planned - an interactive museum of entertaining science in Perm, recommended for visiting families with children. It will be interesting for young visitors of different ages to see the laws of physics, optics, mathematics in action, to get acquainted with amazing natural phenomena. Children's programs and expositions are offered by many museums of the Perm Territory: local history, antiquities, contemporary art.
In addition to natural and historical monuments, the Kama region has excellent and diverse museum organizations. Having familiarized yourself with what museums are located in the Perm Territory, you can plan an exciting and informative leisure for every taste.
