URGAH Museum of Architecture and Design
Yekaterinburg, Gorky St., 4 and
About the company:
The museum was opened on March 29, 1975 as a structural subdivision of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute (now USAHU) in a complex of industrial architecture buildings of federal significance. The original name is the Museum of History and Prospects for the Development of Architecture of the Urals, since 1985 - the Museum of the History of Architecture and Industrial Engineering of the Urals, since 2012 - the Museum of Architecture and Design of Ural State University.
The fund collection of the museum has more than 50,000 items of storage. There is a library with a reading room.
In the building of the former storerooms of the Yekaterinburg Mechanical Factory temporary exhibitions are placed, in the room of the forest drying shop - the exposition "Architecture of the Stone Belt". The collection of large-sized equipment of Ural plants is presented in the open-air exposition.
In front of the facade of the museum in 2023, busts of the founder of the mining business in the Urals, Emperor Peter I and Empress Catherine I, between the monuments - cartouches with a relief map of the city-factory of the XVIII century.
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