Kursk State Regional Museum
About the company:
Telephone: (47122) 2-6474
Address: 305000, Kursk region, Kursk, Lunacharsky str., 6
Passage: Author. 8, 19, 28, 21, 24, 31, shuttle taxis, troll. 1, 2 to the east. Banner Cathedral, Red Square
* Daily from 10.30 to 17.30, except Friday and the last Thursday of the month
Entrance fee: * Adult - 3 rubles, children - 1 rub., student - 2 rub.; with excursion service: adult - 4 rub., children - 2 rub., student - 3 rub.
Internet:
www.museum.ru/M696 - official page
Email: eMail('kgokm', 'kusknet.ru',')
| poster, events and excursions |
| Commemorative dates and annual events: Founding date: 06.05. 1903 Opening date is 30.01. 1905
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The museum in Kursk was established on April 23, 1903 under the Kursk provincial archival commission on the initiative and with the active participation of the Kursk governor N. Gordeev. On January 18, 1905, the museum received its first visitors. In the first year, the museum was visited by 5,600 people. Now the museum and its branches are visited by more than 120 thousand people. The exposition of the museum is located in three departments: nature, history of the pre-revolutionary period, history of Soviet society and modernity. It reflects the natural features of the region, its past and present. The theme of the historical past, the theme of the Great Patriotic War, the Battle of Kursk are widely disclosed. The collections of the museum have been formed since its opening by purchasing items in antique shops in Moscow and St. Petersburg, at the expense of gifts from private individuals, proceeds from nationalized noble estates, archaeological, ethnographic, natural history and complex expeditions. Currently, the museum stores more than 170 thousand museum items, many of which are rare - unique collections: ancient beads, porcelain, art metal, ancient weapons, paintings, items of ancient Russian art, ethnography and Kursk life - old furniture, festive peasant clothes. More than 12 thousand items include a collection of rare books, more than 20 thousand - numismatics, including rare Russian and foreign coins, coin hoards. The photo documentary fund on the history of the Kursk Territory is of great value. The museum is the center of research, scientific-educational, scientific-methodical work on museum and local history work of the Kursk region. The museum has 15 branches: the museum "KP Central Front" in Svoboda, Zolotukhinsky district, the museum "Young Defenders of the Motherland" in Kursk, 13 regional museums. |
Monument of architecture XIX, the former bishops' chambers, forming a single architectural ensemble with the Cathedral of the Znamensky Monastery. |
| Main excursions: Thematic excursions by department |
Additional services:
kiosk or shop, public library
Educational services:
Lecture cycles on local studies
Young Geologist (together with the Kursk Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren)
Sightseeing and thematic excursions on the history of the Kursk Territory (a cycle for more than 30 excursions has been developed)
There are:
hotels and group meals
Tourist routes:
Sightseeing tour of Kursk
Local attractions:
The Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God The Root Desert (male monastery) - Svoboda, Zolotukhinsky district.
St. Nicholas Monastery - Rylsk, Kursk region.
Palace and park ensemble "Maryino" (estate of the princes of Baryatinsky) - the village of Ivanovo, Rylsky district.
The estate of the poet Afanasy Feta is the village of Vorobyovka, Zolotukhinsky district.
Palace and Park Ensemble "Moscow" (Nelidovs) - the village of Moscow, Kursk district.
Memorial complex and military-historical museum "KP of the Central Front" - Svoboda, Zolotukhinsky district.
Memorial complex and military-historical museum "KP of the Voronezh Front" - p. Kirovsky, Pristensky district.
Central Black Earth State Biosphere Reserve.
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Main officers: *
Director: Levchenko Vitaly Vasilyevich, tel. (47122) 2-6474
Deputy Director for Research: Zhabina Valentina Alexandrovna, tel. (47122) 2-6275
Chief Curator: Alferova Elena Leonidovna, tel. (47122)2-62-75
Zav. Department: Sklyaruk Viktor Isayevich, tel. (47122) 2-6275
Zav. Department: Silence Lyudmila Vasilievna, tel. (47122) 2-6275
Zav. Department: Koneva Elena Yurievna, tel. (47122) 2-6275
Museum employee: Lotashova Irina Viktorovna, tel. (47122) 2-6275
Headquarters:
(47122) 2-6474, Fax: (47122) 2-6474
Address:
305000, Kursk region, Kursk, Lunacharsky str., 6
Opening and foundation dates:
based: 06.05. 1903
open: 30.01. 1905
Budgetary status:
Russian subject
Organizational and legal form:
non-profit
Type of organization:
cultural and research
Classification of the organization:
Local lore
Areas of organization:
exhibition and exhibition 795.4m2
temporary exhibitions 180m2
storage facilities 357.9m2
parkland
Number of staff:
68, of which 32 are scientific
The average number of visitors per year:
600.96
The structure of the organization includes:
archive, scientific library, expert group
Superior organization:
Committee on Culture of Kursk Region - R74
Branch or subordinate organization:
Sujan District Museum of Local Lore - M698
Historical and Memorial Museum "KP Central Front" - M699
Museum "Young Defenders of the Motherland" - M703
Membership in organizations:
Union of Museums of Russia - R14
Association of Museums of Russia (Tula) - R52
Partner organizations:
Belgorod Regional Museum of Local Lore - M1456
Sponsors, philanthropists and grantors:
The museum is grateful.
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for financing targeted programs for the restoration of museum objects, the safety of the museum, the creation of a local network, the creation of an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the museum.
Administration of the Kursk region, the Committee on culture of the Kursk region for the financing of events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the museum.
Viktor Leonidovich Istomin - entrepreneur, patron of the museum for the opportunity to create in the halls of the museum his personal exhibition "Gifts to the Museum".
"Rosgosstrakh-Kursk" - for financial support of the publishing project dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the museum.
Telecom LLC - for financial support of the publishing project dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk.
Storage units:
129027
| The most valuable (unique) collections: Painting collection - 59 p.m. Graphics collection - 927 p.m. Sculpture collection - 13 pr. Collection of applied art - 598 pr. Collection of Numismatics, 1921. Archaeology Collection - 909 pr. Collection of Ethnography - 680 pr. Weapon collection - 723 a.m. Collection of documents and rare book - 2797 p. Collection of natural science fund - 952 pr. most interesting items of funds |
Major exhibition projects:
Ethnographic exhibition "Kursk motifs" (historical museum, Girardov, Poland)
Kursk Krai (Palace of Culture of the Mechanical Plant, Skernewice, Poland) - December 1988, within the framework of cultural exchange.
"Poetry of folk costume" (from the collection of the Kursk and Sumy local history museums) - the republican museum of Ufa, Bashkiria - June 1990, within the framework of cultural exchange.
"100 Shedevs of the Museum" - an exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Kursk Regional Museum of Local History - 2003 (with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the administration of the Kursk region and the Committee for Culture of the Kursk region).
Visiting and exchange exhibitions:
"Kursk motifs" (required exposition area - not less than 150 square meters) More than 100 museum items are presented, including: Kursk Khokhloma, Kozhlyan clay toy, folk embroidery, old folk male and female costumes of the Kursk province.
| Publications issued by the organization: Levchenko V.V. Kursk State Regional Museum. - Kursk, 2000. Levchenko V.V. Museums and Monuments of the Kursk Region: Guidebook. - Kursk, Sejm, 1996. Kuznetsova L.A. Masterpieces of the Kursk Museum of Local History. (Booklet) - Kursk, Project Partner, 2000, 2003. Kuznetsova L.A., Ozerov V.V., Danilicheva M.V. Memorial complex. Military History Museum "Command Point of the Central Front". (Booklet) - Kursk, Project Partner, 2000, 2003. |
Information taken from www.museum.ru