Vytegorsky District Museum of Local Lore
162900, Vologda region, Vytegra, St. Soviet, 1
About the company:
Passage: From Vologda, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg by bus; from G. Vologda by plane; in summer from Cherepovets, Petrozavodsk by "Comet" or "Meteor"
Mode of work: * Daily from 10.00 to 17.00, except Monday . 1 June to 1 September annually without a weekend
It was founded on November 9, 1913 as a museum of local fauna at the Vytegorsk real school. Founders - Sergeyev G.A. - director of the school and Vinnytsky L.F. - engineer of waterways. In 1918, it was transformed into a natural-historical one. Since 1937, the exposition of the museum has been placed in the building of the B. Sretenskaya Church. There are departments: the history of the development of the Vytegorsk Territory from the primitive communal system to 1917; the history of Soviet society from 1917-1940. Exhibitions: "Northern weaving"; "Copper cast plastic"; "Poets, writers, scientists are our countrymen"; "In the world of fairy tales" / wood carving, applied art /.
In 1998, one of the halls of the museum, where the exposition of the department of nature was located, was given to the Vytegorsk Orthodox community for worship. Upon opening, the square of the temple will be fully transferred to the faithful. |