Description of the attraction
The Iron Museum is a private museum organized by businessman Andrey Vorobyov in Pereslavl-Zalessky. It is dedicated to the history of household irons.
At the end of 1999, Andrei Vorobyov (who opened an antique shop in 1995) purchased a burnt-out two-story building in the center of the city, on Sovetskaya Street, building 10. There were communal apartments. Construction engineer Boris Kuzmich Abrashkin (a relative of the businessman and the technical director of the museum) was engaged in the repair of the house and other organizational issues.
The renovation work took 3 years. Then the collection of the collection of irons was organized. And finally, on June 29, 2002, the opening ceremony of the museum took place. A significant part of the irons was purchased at the Moscow opening day in Izmailovo. Several interesting exhibits were found in the trash heap.
In 2002-2004, guests could visit the museum free of charge. In 2006, the visit was still free, but money could be dropped into a special box. Then the entrance to the museum became paid.
You can buy an iron in the museum (this is the museum's "main income"). The cost of the exhibit is different: from 100 rubles to 10,000 rubles.
About 1200 people pass through the museum every month. 95% of the guests are Muscovites, the rest of the tourists come from large cities of the Russian Federation and other countries. The largest concentration of tourists is from May to September.
The museum collection includes over 200 irons. But this meeting has no connection with Pereslavl-Zalessky.
The first floor of the museum is equipped with a souvenir shop, on the second - irons are exhibited. There are seven main types of irons on the central shelf: heating, with a heating center made of cast iron, coal, steam, alcohol, gas and electric.
Several times a year, the museum organizes the Iron Festival, where any visitor is given the opportunity to experience the irons in action.
