Description of the attraction
The Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore is one of the largest museum centers not only in Yekaterinburg, but throughout the Urals. The museum fund contains about 700 thousand items.
The museum was founded in December 1870 thanks to the initiative of the city's intelligentsia - members of the Ural Society of Natural Science Lovers. The museum association also includes branches located in the territory of the Sverdlovsk region and in its capital.
The museum in Yekaterinburg consists of ten subdivisions - the Museum and Exhibition Complex (Poklevsky-Kozell House), the A. S. Popov Radio Museum, the Museum of Nature, the Museum of the History of Fruit Horticulture of the Middle Urals, the Museum of History and Archeology of the Urals, the Art Museum of E. Neizvestny, an information and library center, a fund depository, as well as the Museum of Merchant Life, which is under reconstruction. Besides. the museum includes ten branches located outside of Yekaterinburg - on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region. The main museum building consists of two houses connected by a passage that previously belonged to the famous entrepreneurs Poklevsky-Kozell.
The real pride of the local history museum is its unique collections, including the Shigir collection of ancient weapons. The main attraction of this collection is the Big Shigir Idol, which is more than 9 thousand years old. Here you can also see a collection of copper dishes from the early 18th century, a collection of Nevyansk icons, Kasli casting and much more.
Recently, the opening of the Center for Innovative Museum Technologies, created on the basis of the museum, took place. The museum maintains friendly relations not only with the leading cultural organizations of Russia, but also with well-known museums of the near and far abroad.
