Voronezh Regional Museum - a place to explore the history and culture of his native land

Patriotism - one of the most important qualities of the person.Love your land, to know its history, material and spiritual culture, to respect their mother tongue - an inner need highly moral person.

treasure trove of artifacts specific to a particular locality are the local museums.Thanks to the efforts of historians, archaeologists, tour guides, rangers, scientists sotrudnikav funds are replenished periodically, updated, and visitors will learn about the native place of many new and interesting.

Museum, specializing in regional studies, opened in all regions of the country.Is no exception and the Voronezh land.With the use of time, find new knowledge on the history, culture, to feel proud of their town or village experienced guides to help one of the major cultural facilities of the Central Black Earth region.So, Voronezh Regional Museum.

How it all began

Voronezh residents and guests visited the store the first time the treasures of his native land in 1894.Originally planned to open in the Museum of the achievements of Peter I.

In 1857 H. The second officer, who studies the history and ethnography of the region, took the initiative to create a museum.Kicking was supported only in 1890 he was appointed governor of the EAKrukowski.A year later, its own repository of historical values ​​could boast of Voronezh.National History Museum opened 9 (21) of September.The collection was about two thousand four hundred artifacts, including books, coins, maps and so on. D.

Thanks to the efforts of enthusiasts funds periodically replenished.The studies were conducted near the settlements "Mayak", "Frequent mounds" Divnogorsk monastery village of Mazurkas.As a result, Voronezh (local history museum) received valuable new exhibits.Items gathered so much that in 1911 the museum moved to new premises.Renovated building did not have time because of the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War.The priority was to keep the museum staff available values.Research resumed only in 1923.

During the Great Patriotic War of the exhibits were evacuated to Kazakhstan, but many valuable items lost irretrievably.In 1943, the museum returned to Voronezh, where it was merged with the anti-religious museum.

In 1959, the treasury of history and culture of his native land identified building on the street Plekhanov, 29.

Exhibit

museum consists of primary and four other expositions.The main exhibition is devoted to the history of the Voronezh region.There are exhibits that make is easy to imagine how was the foundation of the fortress "Voronezh", built ships, arranged his life early settlers.Equally informative exhibition on post-war life in the city, space and "Sweet Story", dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the production on these lands on the basis of sugar beet.

The exhibition demonstrates weapons bows and arrows, guns, machine guns, rifles.In the hall of "Museum relics" to the visitors offering ancient coins, pottery porcelain and glass art, paintings, sculptures, photographs of past years, and furniture.

following two exhibitions represent the fauna of the region.Voronezh (local history museum) has the largest collection of insects in Central Russia, among which there are tarantulas and scorpions.

different exposures show and branches of the museum.

scientific work

Workers institutions conduct research, publish booklets, training manuals, collections of scientific works.

Recent work by scientists - the booklet "Voronezh Regional Museum" manual "Vivat Voronezh", "Methods of excursion work", a collection of the conference dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the house-museum ALDurov, and so forth.

Other museums Voronezh

addition to local lore, the city has Literature Museum named after ISNikitin, Homesteads nobleman D. Venevitinov Art Museum named after INArchaeology Museum Theatre puppets of the local puppet theater "Jester".

city is famous for, and attractions such as Northbridge, the ship "Mekrury" monument deoxyribonucleic acid Divnogorskiy monastery.On the ground vVoronezhskoy first landed paratroopers USSR.