Museums of Yekaterinburg deserve the attention of both local residents and visitors of the city. It is worth noting that there are a lot of such institutions here, and among them each person will be able to find a direction that interests him.
Museum of Fine Arts - general information
Ekaterinburg is famous throughout the Urals for its art gallery. The Museum of Fine Arts occupies two buildings, one of which is located at: st. Vojvodina, 5, and the second - on L. Weiner street, 11.
The first is located on the banks of the Iset and occupies a reconstructed building of the middle of the 18th century. The museum in this building was opened in 1985. There are both permanent exhibitions and a site for temporary exhibitions. Among the constants, it is worth noting the Kasli casting, Western European art, Russian icon painting and Russian painting, which was famous for all the cities of Russia, including Yekaterinburg. The Museum of Fine Arts introduces visitors to the works of Larionov, Mashkov, Malevich, Lentulov, Venetsianov, Kramskoy, Shishkin and many other famous artists.
The second building of the museum occupies a building of 1912, built according to the project of the architect Babykin. The Sverdlovsk Gallery occupied this building in 1936, and in the late 80s it received a new status, since then it has been the Museum of Art (Yekaterinburg).
Description of Bazhov House-Museum
Chapaeva, 11 - the Bazhov House Museum is located at this address. Ekaterinburg has been the city of residence of the famous writer for many years. It is worth noting that Bazhov erected this one-story log house in 1914 with his own hands and lived in it with his family from 1923 to 1950. It was here that his most famous book called The Malachite Box was created, as well as many others.
The Bazhov Museum (Yekaterinburg) was opened in 1969. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the original appearance of the house is completely preserved. The furnishings of the entire office, children's room and dining room also remained the same. The garden next to the house has also been preserved, in which viburnum, lindens, apple trees, mountain ash grow, planted by the writer. The library, which was once collected by P. P. Bazhov, has 2,000 books. Many of them have autographs of writers with whom Bazhov was once familiar and friendly. The courtyard buildings have also retained their original appearance.
Museum of the history of stone-cutting and jewelry art
When looking at the museums of Yekaterinburg, one cannot ignore the stone-cutting museum located in the historical center of the city on Lenin Avenue, 37. The museum occupies a part of the building of the former pharmacy, which was built in 1821 according to the project of Mikhail Malakhov (Ural architect). The exposition of the museum includes outstanding mineralogical monuments. The museum presents stone-cutting works of the 18th century, among which are specimens made by masters of the imperial cutting factory in Yekaterinburg. The visitors of the museum are presented with interesting items made of jasper, marble and malachite. A vase made of Kalkan jasper, which is 1.5 meters high, deserves special attention.
The Stone-Cutting Museum (Yekaterinburg) introduces visitors to the history of Russian jewelry art. The gold and silver items featured here belong to the various currents that dominated throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The museum also has a hall dedicated to modern stone-cutting art.
Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg
All museums of Yekaterinburg deserve attention, but the city history museum is able to open the curtain of secrets for its visitors not only in a particular area, but in all areas of life and activity of its inhabitants. Initially, it was the city Memorial Museum of Ya. M. Sverdlov, and it received its current status only in 1995.
There are both temporary and permanent exhibitions. So, the latter includes an exhibition called “Time. City. Old house". Thanks to her, visitors will be able to learn more about the history of Yekaterinburg through the transformation of the house in which this museum is located today. Here alsothere is a permanent exhibition of wax figures. And quite recently, another permanent exhibition appeared - “Ekaterinburg in the 18th century. 3D".
Geological Museum - description
Not all museums in Yekaterinburg delight visitors with their expositions for as long as the Ural Geological Museum. It was opened back in 1937. The exhibition was immediately interested in specialists in this field, who lived far beyond the borders of this region, and a little later foreign guests began to visit it. The building of the geological museum consists of three halls - geological, minerals and mineralogical.
Geological Museum (Yekaterinburg) has collected under its roof more than 30,000 exhibits of precious stones and minerals that were mined in the Urals. However, only a third of this huge collection is presented to the eyes of visitors, the rest is stored in extensive storerooms. Some of the exhibits that can be seen today in the museum were once donated to it by local collectors. Platinum, gold, rhodonite, malachite, emeralds, topazes, amethysts and much more open to the eyes of visitors. There are also minerals that were first discovered in the Urals, among them sysertskite, ilmenite, etc. The real pride of the museum is a quartz crystal, the mass of which is 784 kg.
Museums of Yekaterinburg. Opening hours and admission prices
It will be much easier to get into the museums of Yekaterinburg if you have information about the hours, days of their work and the cost of entrance tickets. Geological Museumopen from 10 am to 5 pm all days except Sunday and Monday. An entrance ticket will cost 100 rubles for adults, 40 rubles for children, students and pensioners. The Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg is open daily, however, on Monday, Tuesday and Friday - from 10 am to 6 pm, on Wednesday, Thursday - from 10 am to 8 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday - from 11 am to 6 pm. The cost of an adult entrance ticket is 150 rubles, for children - 60, for pensioners - 100.
The stone-cutting museum is open from 11 am to 6 pm daily, except Sunday and Monday. A ticket for an adult will cost 160 rubles, a student - 50. The Bazhov House Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Wednesday and Thursday it works an hour longer, and on Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. An adult ticket costs 100 rubles, a child ticket costs 50. The Museum of Fine Arts is open from 11 am to 7 pm from Friday to Sunday and from 11 am to 8 pm on Monday-Thursday. A full ticket costs 100 rubles, a reduced ticket costs 50.
Reviews about the museums of Yekaterinburg
During the period of its existence, the museums of Yekaterinburg have already received thousands of visitors and received a lot of feedback from them. So, many people are satisfied with the expositions of the Museum of History. The interactive presentation is a special delight. In the reviews of people about this institution, there is information that they saw many interesting exhibits here that they had not seen before.
As for the stone-cutting museum, there are different reviews. Some are satisfied with the expositions, while others argue that the collections are toopoor, although they are quite enough to familiarize children with this type of art. A lot of good reviews are left by people about the geological museum. They say that even those who are not at all interested in stones and minerals will appreciate the museum's collection.
