Olonets

Olonets National Museum of Karel-Livvik named after N.T. Prilukin

About the company:


Telephone: (81436) 2-1331

Address: 186000, Republic of Karelia, Olonets, St. Uritsky, 9

Passage: train "S. Petersburg-Petrozavodsk" to the st. Olonets, from the Moscow railway station; author. "S. Petersburg - Olonets"; from Moscow by train to the station. Lodey field, then avt. to Olon.

Mode of work: * Monday-Friday from 10 to 17, Sunday from 12 to 16 Attention:
Only by prior agreement

Entrance fee: * full - 5 rubles, Tet - 1.5 rubles, disabled children, orphans, preschoolers - free, for foreign tourists - 25 rubles. with a tour

Internet:
www.museum.ru/M1244 - official page

eMail ('olon mus','onego.ru',')


poster, events and excursions

Commemorative dates and annual events:
Opening date is 30.12. 1959
May 18 - Museum Day.
September 1 - Knowledge day.



Description:
The Olonets National Museum of Karelian-Livviks was opened as a district local history museum on January 30, 1959. In 1999 he was named Prilukin N.G. - founder and first director.

Most of the funds (more than 85%) of the 19700 items of storage are monuments that characterize the material and spiritual culture, the history of the Karelians.

Exposition halls are located in the city center, 50-300 meters from the tourist and hotel complex. Now there are permanent expositions "Secrets of the Forgotten Capital", "Karelian Hill", "Silver Forest".

In the exhibition hall, exhibitions from their own funds, author's collections of artists, photographers, masters of DPI, funds of other museums are replaced every month.

In addition to excursions, museum lessons, lectures, museum staff conduct mass events in the city, organize republican children's holidays, scientific and practical conferences, issue collections of their research in small editions, make up projects, some of which received grant support from the Soros Foundation.




Founder: Prilukin Nikolai Grigorievich, 1909-1983.


Main excursions:
Secrets of the Forgotten Capital
"Karelian Maid"
Silver Forest.


Additional services:
library

The organization has teams:
theatrical

Educational services:
1. Studio for children 5-8 years "Sunny city"
2. Children's folklore theater studio "Museum Meetings"
3. Museum and educational program for classes 1-5 "Museum and culture", developed by the employee of the Museum Pavlova I.V.

Local attractions:
1. City Park of the 19th century on the territory of the Olonets fortress
2. Shopping houses within the city
3. Suspension bridges across the Olonka and Megrera rivers (3-5 km from the city)
4. Churches: Frola and Laurus, 1613. (in 10 km.), the successful 1788. (in 3 km.), Smolensk Cathedral in 1756. (in the city)
5. The village of Bolshaya Selga, fully preserved the architectural appearance and in many ways the way of life of the 19th century. (15 km)
6. Europe’s largest geese migration site (3-5 km)
7. Sandy beaches of Lake Ladoga (15 km)


professional

Main officers: *
Director: Danshova Olga Nikolaevna, tel. (81436) 2-1331
Chief Curator: Tatyana Evgenyeva Giloyeva, tel. (81436) 3-4409
Accountant: Olga Kabanova, tel. (81436) 2-4409
Head of Scientific Department: Kiseleva Julia Pavlovna, tel. (81436) 3-4409

Address:
186000, Republic of Karelia, Olonets, str. Uritsky, 9

Opening and foundation dates:
open: 30.12.1959

Budgetary status:
Municipal

Organizational and legal form:
non-profit

Type of organization:
cultural, research and educational

Classification of the organization:
Historical, Local Lore, Artistic


Areas of organization:
exhibition and exhibition 174m2
temporary exhibitions 112.23m2
storage facilities 161m2

Number of staff:
19 of them 6 scientific

The average number of visitors per year:
12127


Superior organization:
Administration of Local Self-Government of Olonets District - R975

Partner organizations:
Committee on Culture of Leningrad Region - R623
State Committee on National Policy of the Republic of Karelia - R976

Sponsors, philanthropists and grantors:
Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation)
State Committee on National Policy of the Republic of Karelia


Storage units:
19727, of which 14855 items of fixed assets

The most valuable (unique) collections:
Copper - 320 units.
Household textiles - 311 units.
Objects of Christian cult - 108 units.
Numismatics - 3554 units.

most interesting items of funds


Major exhibition projects:
"Olonetskaya antique", Petrozavodsk, 1996-1998.
"All Culture of Karelia", Joensuu, Finland, 1998-2000.
"Museum Crossroads", Petrozavodsk, Museum Agency, Lenin Square, June 24, 2000.
"Left Coast - Right Coast", St. Petersburg, Smolny Exhibition Hall, 2001.

Publications issued by the organization:
"History of the country in the fate of our countrymen" 27-28 January 1999, Olonets
Alango-Alons-Olons-Olonets. Collection of scientific articles, Olonets, 1999.
"Olonzu 350." Abstracts of scientific and practical conference, Olonets, 1999.
“Weaving. School. Paccaine, Olonei, 2001.



Information taken from www.museum.ru

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