Description of the attraction
The Museum of Local Lore, located in the Crimean resort town of Saki on Kurortnaya Street, 29, is the only museum of its kind in the CIS. Dedicated to the history of healing with the healing mud of the Saki Lake.
In 1909, at the Saki zemstvo mud baths, thanks to the initiative of the doctor S. Nalbandov, a museum of the history of mud therapy was founded. During the Great Patriotic War, almost all the exhibits were lost; only a few dozen have survived to this day.
In May 1955, by decision of the local authorities, the museum of the city of Saki was opened, which was the first "resort" museum in the Soviet Union, and operated on a voluntary basis. The founder and first director of the museum A. Kosovskaya headed it for 40 years. She collected memorial materials about the famous figures of balneology and medicine, talented researchers of the lake and mud therapy of the 19-20 century. - the outstanding surgeon N. Pirogov, academicians A. Fersman, N. Kurnakov, N. Burdenko, B. Petrov, A. Semashko, as well as celebrities who were cured by the Saka mud, and the staff of the resort.
Since 1983, the local history museum of the Saki resort has been housed in an old house built in 1912 in the popular at the beginning of the 20th century. modern style. The mansion belonged to I. F. Panov - the head of the Saki salt industry at the beginning of the 20th century. The museum was opened for visitors in 1988.
Acquaintance with the collection of the local history museum begins from the ancient period - at that time the ancient Greeks were treated here, as evidenced by the original exhibits - pottery, Chersonesus coins, antique anchors, amphorae. The next section of the exposition is devoted to mud therapy in the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century. A separate section of the exposition is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The nature section presents a collection of samples of the fauna and flora of the steppe Crimea and the Black Sea. In 2006, an ethnography room was opened under the name “Life and Culture of the Crimean Tatars”, in which samples of household items and national clothes are presented.
In 1993, by the decision of the executive committee in the city of Saki, the museum acquired the status of a city one. In 2009, the museum was returned to its former name.
Description added:
Finogentova O. M. 2016-12-03
Until 1863, the Saki salt mines were state-owned. Then Ivan Petrovich Balashov took them on lease.
