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The Hospitable House of Grandma Maria Museum Center invites you to visit Grandma Maria in the old village of Khvoshchevatka.

Perhaps the most unusual museum in Samara is the Museum of Frogs. It has no equivalent in Russia and there are only three such museums in the world: in Switzerland, Croatia, and, respectively, in Samara.

The Association of Private Museums of Russia is grateful to Yulia Albertovna Vetoshkina for the meeting, as well as her active support and caring approach to private museums.

The family of the Parfenov peasants lived here for more than 100 years. Grips, Russian stove bread paddle, and other kitchen utensils were used by three generations of housewives; the museum collection consists of the household items that belonged to Grandma Maria, the last hostess of the house.

The Hospitable House of Grandma Maria invites you to enjoy our exclusive programs with a tea party from August 27 to May 31, 2021, 10:00-19:00.

When a few passionate people who love their motherland and don’t like to sit around meet each other, interesting things happen.

Abe Au has gathered an international following for his distinctive brushstrokes in MTR stations. Long a feature of Island line stations, his calligraphy will appear along newest Tuen Ma line.

The museum was founded by the descendants of an old archers family — the famous restoration artist from Kostroma, P.A.Piskarev and his son, scientist, writer and local historian D.P.Piskarev.

On June 22, 2019, in the village of Prozorovo, front-line soldiers were resting on the side of the road. The domes of an old church were shining in the sun.

New interesting members continue to join the catalog of private museums of Russia. Today we present to you the Alexander Grekov Toy Museum, Sergiev Posad.

The Kamchatka boiler room is a legendary place where many famous people such as Viktor Tsoi, Alexander Bashlachev, Svyatoslav Zaderiy, Andrey Mashnin, Oleg Kotelnikov, Viktor Bondarik, etc. worked as stokers.

The museum is based on the private collection of pinball machines by Alexander Kazmin. Since 2015, Alexander has been collecting and restoring pinball machines all over Russia.

A new participant from the Leningrad Region – the Shavings ANT-Museum — joined the Association of Private Museums of Russia. Craftsman’s place.

The Association of Private Museums of Russia welcomes a new participant from the Voronezh region — the Museum of Clay Toys “Voronezh Zamanka”, the founder and owner of which is Olga Gubanova.

Collector and philanthropist Valery Sorokin has been studying local history for many years. He researches and promotes the Kazan region's local history and writes books.

The idea of creating a collection of Russian cinema projection equipment was born in 2007 when organizing school museums became a great craze in Moscow.

The collection consists of roughly ten thousand items (inventory process and object descriptions have not yet been finished).

The Museum of Craft, Architecture and Everyday Life was established on July 17, 1991. It is located in the Gostev-Tsyplakov House, which is recognized as a monument of architecture. The museum was re-registered in 1997.

On June 5, the Groshev Museum of Wooden Architecture in Meschera celebrated the Opening Day of the Summer Season 2021! On this sunny day, many people came to visit the exhibition and took part in various entertainment activities outside the museum.

A new member from Krasnodar Krai — the "Insects of the World" Museum Private Institution — was added to the catalog of Private Museums of Russia.

The museum-workshop of Martsenyuk is a private gallery that contains three-dimensional paintings, made by the master from wood.

Dear friends, we continue to share with you the news and events important for us all. This time, we are eager to tell you that shortly, the Association of Private Museums of Russia will receive a donation of rather unusual exhibits — models of wooden churches — to display on our future exhibitions and to transfer to one of the museums of our Association.

In 1995, in the village of Fershampenuaz, Nagaybak district, the Stone House-Museum was established to exhibit the private collection of Alexander Maximovich Matora.

The private museum Vyacheslav Sheyanov’s Motorworld Museum in Samara has a collection of unique and rare motorcycles from fourteen countries. The museum offers a glimpse into the world history of motor vehicles and the development of science and engineering, takes you into the golden age of motorcycle construction — the 30-40s of the last century.