Description of the attraction
The opening of the branch of the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore - the Museum of Folk Life - took place in 89 of the last century. This is one of the three branches of the local history museum. The museum is located in the house where the museum of the Soviet party politician Andrei Zhdanov, who was born in Mariupol in 1896, used to be. Mariupol was named after Zhdanov in 48 -89. 20th century.
The museum exposition gives visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with the peculiarities of the everyday life of the population of the Azov region of all nationalities who inhabited this territory at the end of the 18th century. The exhibits of the museum tell about the culture and economic activities of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Greeks, Germans. In the fall of 2011, reconstruction works began at the museum, which lasted until April 2012.
After the completion of the renovation, about thirty new exhibits were added to the museum, which tell about the life of the Azov region: a handkerchief, a smoking pipe, a touchstone and nails of the 17th-18th centuries, found at the mouth of the river. Kalmius during excavations. The Russian exposition and exhibition, which tells about the life of the Azov Jews, has been replenished. New exhibits were donated to the museum by researchers and ordinary citizens. The plans are to renew the facade of the building and improve the courtyard with the arrangement of an ethnographic exposition of folk crafts in the open air.
