In the city of Murmansk is concentrated a lotInteresting attractions that have preserved a part of the centuries-old history of this harsh climate. In order to see and feel the whole way of the city development from its very foundation to the days of the present, it is worth to visit one of the largest and exposition-rich museums.
This article will be presented to the Murmansk regional museum of local lore. A description of some of its many exhibits will be briefly presented below.
Every year this museum of local lore is visited by more than 100 thousand people. It has magnificent exhibition halls, which today number 17.
In it, the visitor sees all the centuries-old history of the great land from the most ancient times to the present. The halls of the museum acquaint with the most unique reserved corners.
Numerous exhibits of the museum demonstrate the specificity of the diversified economy of the region, related to a greater extent with the use of natural resources, with which these regions are rich.
Murmansk regional museum of local lore, created in 1926 at the Society, engaged in the study of the Murmansk region, is one of the oldest in the region.
It all began with a tiny boardwalk onStreet Leningradskaya, which housed five hundred exhibits. They were prepared by the director of the biological Murmansk station, Professor GA Kluge, together with his collaborators, Professor AA Polkanov and agronomist scientist IG Eichfeld. They represented, respectively, the marine fauna, minerals and plants.
MN Mikhailov was the first director of the museum.
Exhibits of the modern museum are located incompletely new premises - a bright large building on Lenin Avenue. This building is a historical monument of the Murmansk region, built in 1937 as a model secondary school. Subsequently, in 1941, a hospital was placed here.
Since 1957 the first expositions have appeared here. At present, the museum's funds contain about 140 thousand items in storage, including those exhibited - 25 thousand.
Since 1965, on the front side of the building a mosaic panel has appeared, and on the pedestal, an anchor, as a monument to the world's first icebreaker called Ermak.
It is necessary to visit the Murmansk regional museum of local lore. Murmansk will become more interesting and closer, if you want to know its full history.
Visitors have the opportunity to see one of theunique collections of rocks extracted from the depths of the earth (from a depth of up to 12 kilometers) while drilling an ultradeep Kola well (in the Guinness Book of Records lists). Also here is the magnificence of various minerals. It should be noted that of the 3,000 minerals known in the world, 930 are registered on the Kola Peninsula, 200 of which are open for the first time.
Against the backdrop of a superb panorama of the northern forestyou can see on the forest edge bear cubs with a bear and a calf with a moose. Also, anyone who has visited the museum's halls can be sure that the tundra, despite its harsh conditions, is the site of the growth of rare and amazing plants. Here are presented flowers, "living" under the snow.
Tundra is the habitat of many birds(for example, the polar tern is the world record holder for the range of flights) and the native house of the deer. The exposition presents amazing inhabitants of the depths of the Barents Sea.
Having familiarized with the exhibits of the museum, each visitor can feel and imagine the vulnerability and fragility of the vast northern nature and understand the need for careful attitude to it.
It is impossible in one article to cover and present the entire exposition, which is represented by the Murmansk regional museum of local lore.
Traditional employment of people living on the Kola PeninsulaNorth, go back to the depths of centuries. This is fishing, reindeer breeding and hunting. The first historically known peoples, once anciently populating the Kola Peninsula, are the Saami. To find out how they looked and how they lived, it is necessary to visit the department of archeology, which represents the rarest exhibit - the sculptural portrait of an ancient man, reconstructed by anthropologist MM Gerasimov.
Back in 1556 on the sandy shoal of Kolathe city of Kola was built, which was the most important fishing and administrative center of this region. Then it became the first commercial port, a border outpost in the North of Russia.
Murmansk regional museum of local lore helps to expand the knowledge of young people and schoolchildren about the development of their native land and fosters the birth of a sense of love for their homeland.
Here, visitors can see how the fish and mining chemical industries, the electric power industry and the oil and gas extraction industry of the region developed.
About the events taking place in this region during the revolution and during the Second World War, the harsh conditions of life in the Arctic, the fate of people and so on. the halls of the museum tell.
The exposition is also personal belongings of Yuri Gagarin, who served once in the Arctic.
Must visit the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local History. The address is: Murmansk, pr. Lenina, 90.
The Murmansk Regional Museum of Local History is unique and rich in its exposition, covering a wide range of areas.
Not only in the display of unique exhibits of meritmuseum. Every six months, on the basis of the museum, cognitive scientific and practical conferences are held. And also more than 50 local history exhibitions are organized annually in its halls.
In addition to all of the above, the library of the museum is one of the oldest in the region, numbering about 18 thousand journals and books on local history.
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