A new exhibit in our collection is a good reason to visit the museum. Our military hall didn't have a motorcycle of this brand before. The famous BMW and Zundapp had to move a little to give place to the newcomer.
Recently, the souvenirs of the Balalaika Museum came back from the district level of the All-Russian Contest Touristic Souvenir-2021 in the Volga Federal District.
A new museum from Nizhny Novgorod — Nizhny Novgorod Museum of the Cold War and the History of the city of Gorky in 1946-1991 — joined the Association of Private and People's Museums of Russia. The founder, owner, and director of the museum is Ilya Leonidovich Novosadov.
Today, dolls remind us of games and childhood. But dolls can have many other uses. Spiritual, boudoir, fashion dolls, theatre puppets. Each of our dolls has its personality because each of them keeps the warmth of human hands. Don't you think so?
Vladimir Lvovsky: Long time ago, in 1979, when I was a little boy, I followed an archaeological expedition that was excavating a burial mound in the Marevsky district of the Novgorod region.
A large exhibition of graphic portraits by Alexander Alekseevich Varentsov is held for the first time in the workshop museum. The exhibition includes more than a hundred portraits made in various drawing and printmaking techniques in 1967-2020.
Meet our new member from Perm — the Soviet Daily Life Museum. The founder and owner of the museum is Kostareva Nina Ivanovna.
Finally, a festival was held at the Petrozavodsk Polar Odyssey Maritime Club.
The Association of Private and People's Museums of Russia welcomes a new member - the Photo History Museum from the Bryansk region.
The museum is dedicated to a rare art form — engineering and design mechanisms known as transformers.
We continue to explore the streets of our city. Today we would like to tell you about a house that witnessed many historical figures.
Musa Russa is a gallery and an art doll shop, aiming to unite creators under one brand and establish a museum of Russian dolls based on images of women in classical Russian literature of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.
A magical cutting board, with the year "1913" carved on it, was found in an old Komi house.
On September 22, 2021, the director of the Association of Private and People’s Museums of Russia Alexey Shaburov, during his business trip to the Kaluga region, visited a farm and a museum under construction in the village of Kolodezi and met with Vladimir Alexandrovich Geraskin, the owner of the museum and a real gem.
Most founders of museums establish them in their homeland, but Sergey Pogonin is a whole other story.
“Next year will mark 50 years since I have started collecting coins. Today, there are more than 6,000 coins and banknotes from all over the world in my collection. I decided on the topic only 15 years ago: “Butterflies and Dragonflies on the Coins of the World”.
A full-length film about the museums of the Perm Region, members of the Association of Private Museums of the Kama region, has been released.
"People often ask me to teach workshops on casting, for example, a bell...
This summer, a delegation of the Association of Private and People's Museums of Russia headed by Alexey Shaburov visited the Perm region.
13 years ago, in these September days, the world's first International Exhibition of Calligraphy took place in the historic halls of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg
This dot on the map of Russian museums is an amazing place that will unite everyone: the older generation will have a few pleasant moments of nostalgia, and the younger generation will discover an outstanding world that they have only heard about before.
Среди предметов коллекции орловского музея «Русские часы» есть несколько экземпляров часов, оформление которых отличается своей консервативностью в деталях, не свойственной для стилистики мебели второй четверти XIX в., когда они были произведены.
What makes people spend their spare time and money on founding museums, organizing charities, and preserving cultural heritage?
Calligraphy is a kind of music not for the ears, but for the eyes.
(V. Lazursky)