World of Pereslavl Museums

Not Museums are called time keepers. Time runs, changes, changes. He goes away and takes it with him, irrevocably. But it leaves a trail of sorts. The link between generations. And there are enthusiasts who collect and study of some material evidence of the past time imperceptibly Hobbies develop into a way of life. And fortunately, we have to observe that collectors are not confined to their own research and They make great efforts to share their knowledge and experience with Others, in other words, bring history and culture to people. That's how you create and There are museums.

We know, One of the first provincial museums in Russia was opened in Pereslavl. This event took place in 1803, and it so happened that the initiator of the creation of the museum. became Vladimir Governor, Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Dolgoruky, poet and a progressive man of his time who appreciated the importance of the survivor Petrovsky "Botika" as an important link in the initial base in the history of the Russian fleet. The next museum in the city of Zalesya (by the way, it has become one of the largest in the world). Provincial museums of Russia were opened in 1919 largely due to efforts of the prominent historian, scientist and local historian Mikhail Ivanovich Smirnov, aiming to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Pereslavl region, It could disappear without a trace after the well-known events of October 1917.

And Now there are more than twenty museums in Pereslavl and the surrounding area (add two more exhibition halls in the city center). Among them, Winners of popular love and recognition The Iron Museum and the Teapot House Museum, actively popularizing the old Russian Berendei House with a unique collection of hunting and fishing The museum of cunning and ingenuity and an absolutely wonderful museum of locomotives. Most of the They still have no analogues in Russia. And each of them is a whole world. The mysterious and amazing world of ancient objects.