Museum business in Perm went through the same stages of formation and development, as in the whole of Russia, and began with private collecting and gathering. Museums of the Perm region began to be created from the end of the 19th century. due to scientific and technological progress, the presence of an educated population and the need of the intelligentsia for educational activities. Many museum organizations of the region are either branches of the Perm Museum of Local Lore, or have opened on a corporate (private) basis.
Perm Museum of Local Lore
The museum has been operating in Perm since 1890. It is located in a beautiful building of the old city. Previously, it belonged to the famous merchant and philanthropist in Russia, the creator of the local university, Nikolai Vasilievich Meshkov. The museum’s unique collections consist of more than 600 thousand exhibits and reflect the life of Prikamye from ancient times. Annually, the main museum of the Perm region receives 200 thousand visitors. Of particular interest is the exhibition of objects of the Perm animal style.
Local Lore Museums of Perm Krai
The Interactive Museum of Perm Antiquities is located in the regional capital using advanced technologies and exhibits local paleontological finds: the remains of animals, including stuffed mammoths, and plants. He specializes in children's educational programs.
Answering the question of what museums are in the Perm Territory, one cannot ignore the Museum of Archeology of the Perm Urals, created in 2003 at the local humanitarian and pedagogical university to educate students and everyone who loves native history.
The ethnographic park of the history of the Chusovoy River is located on the banks of the beloved river of the writer Viktor Astafyev Arkhipovka and is dedicated to the peasant life of the Chusovskoy district. Here are collected unique samples of residential, industrial and public buildings of the 19th century.
Gornozavodsky Museum of Local Lore M.P. Starostin was created in 1967 and subsequently named after his first director, local historian and member of the Union Geographical Society. It has a rich collection of shells, minerals, coins, fine and decorative art. The Gornozavodsky district itself is famous for the discovery on its territory of the first Russian diamond in 1829 and is the cradle of diamond mining.
Immeasurable wealth and significant historical events have become sources for the creation of a large number of other local history museums in the Perm Region: Osinsky, Solikamsky, Komi-Permyatsky, Kungursky, Lysvensky and Cherdynsky.
Historical museums
Since 1989, in the ancient village of Upper Mullah, where the Pugachev detachment was defeated by the tsarist troops in 1773, the Museum of the History of the Perm Region has been operating. Museum exhibits tell about outstanding countrymen, local archaeological finds, household interiors, and national costumes.
The most important historical events that took place on Permian land also reflect the expositions of the Museum of the History of Motovilikhinsky Plants, the Memorial Complex on Mount Vyshka, the Dobryansky Museum of Local History, the Stroganov Chambers in Usolye.
Specialty Museums
43 km from Perm is the architectural and ethnographic museum Khokhlovka. Since 1980, here on the area of 40 hectares 23 old restored monuments of wooden architecture in combination with magnificent landscapes on the high cape of the Kama reservoir have been presented. The museum hosts traditional folk festivals and historical festivals.
The house of Diaghilev in Perm is part of the gymnasium of his name and is located in a family mansion in 1852 according to the project of architect R.O. Karvovsky in the style of late classicism, where in the 19th century local intelligentsia gathered to play music and stage performances, and now there is a small exposition. S.P. Diaghilev spent his childhood and youth here. In the concert hall of the gymnasium, a monument was erected to him - one of the last works of the outstanding sculptor E. Unknown.
In Solikamsk, at the confluence of the Borova River into the Kama River, there is the only plant museum in Russia - the Ust-Borovsky Salt Plant. The enterprise was created by merchant A.V. Ryazantsev in 1882 on the site of salt trades and worked until 1972. Excursionists will be told about the interesting history of the city with numerous attractions and technologies for producing Permian salt.
Art museums
The Perm Art Gallery was opened in 1922 on the basis of the collection of the art department of the local scientific and industrial museum, which had the work of the painters Vereshchagins, Gushchin, Svedomsky, wooden sculptures, valuable sewing patterns, icons and church items. In the future, the exposition was replenished many times at the expense of the state and private individuals, now it is located in the building of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the 19th century, built by a native of Perm province, academician of architecture I. I. Sviyazev. Gallery employees collect art objects in numerous expeditions, and also collaborate with domestic and foreign collectors.
The Museum of Modern Art is the only institution of its kind outside the two capitals. It was created in Perm in 2009 by Senator S. Gordeev and the famous gallery owner M. Gelman. The collection consists of works of conceptual art of several generations of Russian artists from unconventional materials: sand, clay, adhesive tape, cardboard, foam rubber and others. This museum of the Perm Territory is an interactive platform for communication between artists and spectators and attracts many visitors of different ages.
Noteworthy are also such art organizations as the Solikamsk Museum of Old Russian Art and the Tchaikovsky Art Gallery.
