Description of the attraction
Knyazhpogostsky Regional Museum of History and Local Lore is located in the city of Emva. It was created on the basis of a public museum that had been operating since 1969 at the regional House of Culture. On October 25, 1972, the opening of the national museum of local lore was approved, the activities of which were managed by a public council headed by the director of the house of culture S. A. Baranov. The museum was housed in two panel wooden houses.
In July 1989, the district museum occupied the building of the former military commissariat located on Dzerzhinsky Street, house 74 (a building built in the early 1940s), where it is still located. In July 1990, the museum received the status of a state institution. Today its funds include more than 7, 5 thousand exhibits.
The emblem of the museum is a duck saltcellar made at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The salt shaker is made of birch burl, it has a lid, and is covered with linseed oil on top. In the past, this kind of saltcellars-ducks were an obligatory attribute of the Komi wedding ceremony. On the day of the wedding, the bride would take from her home a duck salt shaker carved by her father or maternal uncle. The duck figure was the personification of parental blessings, as well as a symbol of family happiness.
The main tasks of the local history museum are collection, preservation, exposition and promotion of the history and culture of the native land. The hall dedicated to the culture and life of the Komi people displays exhibits telling about the life of the Komi people in the 18-20 centuries. All the exhibits on display were collected by the museum staff in the villages and villages of the Knyazhpogost region. A wooden plow, a harrow, a hand millstone, a sickle, and a pink salmon scythe testify to the development of agriculture in these places. Here you can also see samovars, various bottles, irons, fabric caskets, which were sold in shops and shops. In the section dedicated to fishing and hunting: traps for fish, skis, hunter's clothes, spear for a bear.
Visitors to the next hall can see various types of crockery made of birch bark and wood, clay and copper, ancient construction tools, and Komi folk clothes. In addition, you can get acquainted with how the loom functions, and why in ancient times there was a need for a "light" in the house.
The exposition, which tells about the nature of the region, is represented by scenes from the life of forest dwellers, which are composed of stuffed birds and animals, rocks. Here you can also get acquainted with the collection of butterflies and insects that live in these places. Part of the exposition are photographs, in which views of the environs of the Knyazhpogostsky region. A separate section of the exposition is connected with specially protected natural areas, of which there are 16 in the Knyazhpogostsky district. This exposition is of particular interest for children, since it is built as if you are in fact in a real living forest.
The exposition "No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten" tells about the fate of fellow countrymen who went through the Second World War. Each section of this exposition is permeated with respect for their life and deed. Here, visitors get acquainted with fellow countrymen who glorified their land, having received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - there are four of them in the Knyazhpogost region: Davydovich N. P., Gushchin N. F., Safronov P. S., Nikishin M. D., women workers rear.
Also in the museum there is an exposition introducing famous fellow countrymen from the Knyazhpogost region, called "The Golden Gallery of Countrymen". A special place in the Knyazhpogostsky district museums is at the exhibition hall dedicated to Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin, the famous sociologist, author of many scientific works, who was born in the village of Turya, Knyazhpogostsky district.
The museum also has an exposition of interest to adults and children. It presents models of sea vessels, which are reduced copies of such famous ships as "Katy - Clark", etc.
In addition to exhibition activities, the museum organizes thematic educational events, local history meetings, scientific and practical conferences and much more.
