Description of the attraction
The Murom History and Art Museum is a museum of the Murom Territory. The beginning of its creation dates back to 1918. It was first opened to visitors in January 1919. The premises of the museum are located in the Zvorykin House.
From 1974 to 1989, the museum, together with other city museums of the region, as a branch was part of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve. Later, from 1989 to 1997, it functioned as an independent museum unit, subordinate to the city department of culture. In 1997, the museum was registered as a municipal cultural institution, subordinate to the Department of Culture of Murom. Since 2007, the Murom Museum has been subordinate to the region and has the status of a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the region (since 2009).
The museum has valuable historical and art collections, which are located in four complexes of buildings that are architectural monuments. The art collection of the museum is based on the collections of famous Russian archaeologists: A. S. Uvarov and his wife P. S. Uvarova. Unique works of ancient Russian art came to the museum from various monasteries and temples. Ethnographic collections comprise things collected before the revolution by N. G. Dobrynkin, I. S. Kulikov, A. F. Greedy and brought from expeditions.
The main buildings of the museum are a stone three-storey mansion with a mezzanine, as well as outbuildings of the 18-19th centuries, representing the Zvorykins' estate (on Pervomayskaya street, 4). The building houses ethnographic and historical expositions, a collection of works of Old Russian art, and the museum's storage facilities.
The Zvorykin House is the most beautiful merchant mansion in Murom of the last century. The world famous scientist, talented inventor-radio electronics engineer, who emigrated to the USA, “the father of television”, Vladimir Kuzmich Zvorykin, was born and spent his youth here. A memorial plaque on his house was installed in 1989.
In 1996, the Art Gallery was opened at the museum (on Pervomayskaya Street, 6). It occupies the building of the former City Council. In the halls of the second floor with a total area of 200 sq. m, the best art collections of the Murom History and Art Museum are presented, which include a collection of Western European and Russian art of the 17-19 centuries: graphics, painting, porcelain, furniture. On the ground floor of the building there is a museum archive and a scientific library, and an art salon.
In 2000, exhibitions were opened at 13 Moskovskaya Street in the Exhibition Center, the area of which allows holding 3-4 exhibitions simultaneously. The exhibition center is located on the busiest city street in one of the best merchant houses. An art salon and a museum photographic studio operate here.
Since 1990, the Murom Museum has been holding all-Russian scientific conferences called Uvarov Readings (every three years on Easter week); scientific expeditions are organized every year. In addition, the museum constantly prepares popular and scientific publications for publication, publishes information materials about Murom on the Internet and on electronic media. The main partners of the museum are the museums of the Pooksky region (Gorokhovets, Kovrov, Vyaznikov, Kasimov, Pavlovo, Arzamas, Sarov, Alexandrov).
The Murom Museum of History and Art is the basic scientific institution of the museum network "Commonwealth of the Lower Oka Museums". The museum is a member of the Association of Russian Museums and the Union of Museums.
