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The North is a clear and inexhaustible source of Russian folk culture. The collections of the Museum Union «Artistry Culture of the Russian North» comprise such a huge number of ancient Northern icons and pre-historic objects of pagan culture that many other museums in the world might feel envious. The State Museum «Malye Korely», an open-air museum of wooden architecture and folk arts, the largest in the world, is also in the Region.
To preserve the unique masterpieces of wooden architecture, more than 100 monuments from the farthest corners of the vast Arkhangelsk Region were brought here in the 1970-ies. The Arkhangelsk Region takes the 1st place in Russia in the number and importance of the wooden architectural monuments and is at the top of the list of 10 Russian regions famous for their cultural heritage. The Solovetsky State History and Architecture Museum-Preserve is on the UNESCO list of the World Heritage.
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| | The Museum Union «Artistry Culture of the Russian North»
The Museum Union collections number about 30 thousand exhibits which give a clear notion of different schools and styles of the centuries-old art history in the Russian North. Of particular value is the unique collection of icons of the 14th - 18th centuries, of the so-called «Northern Painting». Structurally the Museum Union has five subsidiaries: Fine Arts Museum, S.G.Pisakhov Museum, Museum of Artistic Opening up of Arctic named after A.A. Borisov, an old Private Residence in Naberezhnaya, E.K.Plotnikova’s City Residence.
Address: 2, Lenin sq., Arkhangelsk, 163000
Telephone: +7 (8182) 65 36 16 (ticket-office)
Working hours: 10:00 - 17:00
10:00 - 16.30 (ticket-office)
day off - Tuesday |
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| | The Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Local HistoryThe Museum collection consists of about 170 thousand exhibits. Being one of the oldest museum collections in Russia, it reflects all the peculiarities and variety of the Northern nature in a concentrated way, and presents the colourful history of the land from pre-historic times to our days, shows the depth and drama of the events. For more details... |
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| | Kargopol State History, Architecture and Arts MuseumThe number of objects in the Museum collection is above 34 thousand. The Museum is proud of the unique collections of Old Russian painting, of church sculptures, golden-stitch embroidery, hand-written and rare early printed books, monuments of Old Belief, provincial portraits of the 18th - 19th centuries. 17 architectural monuments of federal importance, the masterpieces of white stone and wood of the Russian North dating back to the 16th - 18th centuries, are under the authority of the Museum. For more details... |
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| | Solvychegodsk History and Arts Museum
The core of the Museum collection is the Old Russian painting of the 16th - 17th centuries – icons of «the Stroganovs’ School», collections of gimped embroidery, of decorative and applied arts of the 17th - 18th centuries. The Museum Complex includes some monuments of federal importance, such as the Blagoveschensky (‘Annunciation’) Cathedral (1584), the family church of the Stroganovs; Spasoobydennaya Church (the 19th century), the family burial place of the Stroganovs; as well as the Stalin Museum and the Folk Crafts School.
Address: 1A, Museyni per., Solvychegodsk, the Kotlassky District,
the Arkhangelsk Region, 165330
Telephone: +7 (81837) 7 92 54, 7 94 81
e-mail: solimus@atnet.ru
Working hours: 9:00-17:00
Closed on Monday of each month |
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| | Historical and Memorial Museum of M.V. LomonosovThe Museum is housed in the wooden building of 1892 on the spot where once M.Lomonosov’s native house stood. Close to the building there is a pond which was dug by the scientist’s father. The exposition of the Museum shows the history and culture of the Arkhangelsk land of Lomonosov’s times, acquaints people with our great compatriot’s biography and scientific discoveries. The Museum possesses research and literary works published during M.V.Lomonosov’s lifetime. Of special value are the unique collections of Kholmogory bone-carvings and early printed books of the 18th century. A village painting gallery is also housed in the Museum. For more details... |
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| | The Solovetsky State History, Architecture and Nature Preserve MuseumIt is the first museum of this sort in Russia; its concept envisaged the creation of the whole complex of thematically arranged expositions, local open-air museums, and special ecological routes on the Archipelago. The Museum collections list has about 56 thousand entries, some objects belong to the pre-historic island culture dating back to the III-I millennium B.C., some reflect the history of the Solovetsky Monastery and its domains. Under the Museum’s authority there are about 800 archeological monuments, as well as 189 monuments of history and architecture. For more details... |
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