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30.10.2019

The Museum of the Diplomatic Corps in Vologda is located in the house that housed the American Embassy in 1918. This museum occupies two rooms in a 19th-century mansion and operates in an art salon. This mansion housed the US Embassy for 5 months in 1918. The museum displays some authentic things, documents, letters of that time. The book of reviews contains the impressions of foreigners and some of our compatriots.

From the end of February 1918, the city of Vologda became the “diplomatic capital of Russia” for five months. In connection with the danger of the capture of Petrograd by German troops, representatives of 11 embassies are urgently evacuated to the city - American, British, French, Serbian, Belgian, Siamese, Italian, consulates - Brazilian, as well as missions - Japanese, Chinese, Swedish-Danish, headed by American Ambassador David R. Francis.

In 1996, Vologda historian A.V. Bykov began to actively accumulate materials about the stay of the diplomatic corps in Vologda. He managed to collect a number of household items that surrounded the diplomats, copies of valuable documents, mainly from local archives and the personal archive of diplomat D.R. Francis in St. Louis and organized in 1997 year exhibition, and June 25, 1998 - museum.

Museum of Police of the Vologda Region

The Vologda Region Police Museum is a departmental museum in the city of Vologda. He is organizationally part of Cultural center ATC for the Vologda region. The main task of the museum is to preserve historical heritage, as well as assistance in the patriotic and professional-moral education of new generations of police officers. The museum provides great assistance to young people in early career guidance by talking about this profession.

The first museum of the history of the police of the Vologda region was created in 1981, its reconstruction was carried out in 1994. Previously, the museum was located on Mira Street, in two small rooms on the first floor of an ancient building. But in 2007, the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Police Major General Pavel Aleksandrovich Gorchakov, decided to allocate 1.5 million rubles to equip the museum in a new location, and the museum received new premises on Maltseva Street 54, consisting of 2 halls, the area of which is about 125 square meters.

Vologda Museum of Local Lore

Vologda district local history museum was opened in 1923 on the territory of the Vologda Kremlin in the premises of the former bishop's courtyard. New Museum united four city museums: Peter's House, the Diocesan Archival Repository, an art gallery and the Museum of Homeland Studies.

Moving from hall to hall, museum visitors plunge into the history of the Vologda land. In the first hall you can get acquainted with the ancient wildlife the era of dinosaurs, and further along the exhibition the gradual development of flora and fauna is shown, right up to the present day.

Occupies a separate place historical theme, presented with rich factual material, right down to ancient cannons, which can be examined in detail up close.

One of the halls is equipped as a Russian wooden hut with original furniture and household items.

Almost all residents of Vologda have visited this museum; children first come here with their parents, and when they grow up, they come here with their new family.

Carriage Depot Museum

The Museum of the Carriage Depot in Vologda was founded in May 1975 as a room of military and labor glory. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. At the end of the 1990s, the museum was moved to a more spacious building. The museum conducts excursions for railway technical school and college students, schoolchildren, kindergarten students and young workers entering the depot.

The museum houses more than 500 different railway-themed exhibits telling the history of the carriage depot. These are railway uniforms, hand tools, auxiliary equipment. The exhibition is based on photographs of the depot staff from 1906 to the end of the twentieth century.

The funds of the carriage depot museum are constantly updated with historical materials from the archives of the carriage depot.

Museum of the Center for Fire Propaganda and Public Relations of the Fire Service of the Vologda Region

The Museum of the Center for Fire Prevention Propaganda and Public Relations of the Fire Service of the Vologda Region is a technical museum. It is located in the building of the federal fire station No. 1 in the city of Vologda. The museum was founded in November 1973 as a fire-technical exhibition at the regional fire department, and already in 1992 a large-scale reconstruction was carried out in the main and historical halls, and in 2009, outdated materials on all stands were replaced in the main hall.

The museum is visited by up to 8,000 people a year. The museum's exposition in the historical hall tells about the fire protection of the 19th and 20th centuries in Vologda. The main part of the exhibition is occupied by unique photographs and original documents. early XIX century. In the same room, equipment and various ammunition of the early 20th century are presented. The current diorama “Fire of 1920 in Vologda” is interesting to view.

Lace Museum

The idea of the governor of the Vologda region Vyacheslav Pozgalev to create a lace museum was supported by the government, and in 2010 the lace museum was opened to visitors.

The area of the museum is 1500 m². Each room presents examples of artistic crafts from Vologda and the whole world with late XIX - beginning of the XXI centuries. The museum also contains original lace works by famous Vologda craftswomen and samples of works from French, Belgian, German, Austrian and Polish lace centers.

The museum carries out exhibition, educational, stock and publishing work. Famous exhibitions: “The Charm of European Lace”, “Vologda Lace – Royal Lace”, as well as presentations of annual new arrivals of samples of lace work. In 2011, the museum held international festival lace, which was attended by craftswomen from 18 countries and 36 regions of Russia. This year there was the most massive lace-making event, in which 570 craftswomen worked for 2 hours straight. The action was included in the Russian Book of Records.

Museum of the Vologda College of Railway Transport

In Vologda at the Vologda College railway transport you can visit the museum, which will tell you about the history of the technical school, about the sports and scientific traditions of this educational institution. The museum at the technical school was opened twice. In the 90s - difficult years it was closed and was reborn in 2001.

A room with an area of 50 square meters was allocated and renovated for the museum, and the design project of the museum was made by a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, Honored Artist Russian Federation Oleg Vasilievich Pakhomov.

The museum's exhibition includes more than 250 railway-themed items. These are photographs, documents, awards, models of railway equipment. But the museum does not stand still; it is constantly expanding through the efforts of museum workers. A significant part of the exhibits was donated to the museum by graduates of the technical school.

Part of the museum's exhibition is dedicated to the years of the Great Patriotic War, graduates of the technical school who fought on the war fronts. Many died, and the museum has a lot of collected material about these heroes.

Architectural and Ethnographic Museum "Semenkovo"

The Architectural and Ethnographic Museum of the Vologda Region has recreated a picture of a Russian village from the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Here visitors are invited to get acquainted with the traditions of their ancestors and the origins of the culture of the Russian people. The ensemble includes 16 ancient estates, the 18th-century St. George's Church, as well as an agricultural complex with a field, grain barns, barns, threshing floor, windmills and fairgrounds.

The museum was opened in 1979 and is a monument Federal significance. On an area of 12.7 hectares there are monuments of Russian wooden architecture 19th century, which were transported from the Nyuksensky, Tarnogsky, Totemsky districts of the Vologda region. The Architectural and Ethnographic Museum actively cooperates with educational institutions, leads educational activities, is engaged in research and restoration work.

Museum of Primary Vocational Education of the Vologda Region

The Museum of Primary Vocational Education of the Vologda Region is located in the city of Vologda. It is a branch of the Museum of Professional Education of the Russian Federation. The museum was opened in 1978. The initiator of its creation was the head of the regional department of vocational education Nikolai Nikolaevich Burak. The museum is located in the building of the former trade school of the merchant of the second guild D.S. Permyakov, which was founded in 1912.

2005 was the second birth for the museum; it was completely rebuilt. Its concept has changed - it has become the center of military-patriotic, labor, moral, aesthetic and artistic education the younger generation.

The museum's funds have more than 4,500 storage units. And more than 300 objects are constantly shown to visitors; the exhibition is deployed in a room with an area of 400 square meters and includes three main sections: historical, creative and memorial.

Museum of Stalin's Vologda exile

The Museum of Stalin's Vologda exile, opened back in 1937, is located on Herzen Street, near the government building of the Vologda region. The museum is located in a restored wooden house, known in the city as the house of gendarme Korpusov, from whom the future leader of the Soviet people rented a room from December 1911 to February 1912.

The central place in the museum's exhibition is occupied by a small room in which young Dzhugashvili lived. Placed at the table wax figure revolutionary. Here is a picture unknown artist, painted in the late 30s and depicting Stalin sitting in this room. In those years, this museum was very popular among residents and guests of Vologda.

Currently, the museum is dedicated to the history of political exile. In Vologda, in addition to Stalin, in different years many referred famous personalities. These are Korolenko, Molotov, Lunacharsky, Maria Ulyanova, Berdyaev, Remizov and others. Large stands contain materials on the activities of Vologda exiles. The second floor of the house is occupied by a large-scale panorama of the city of pre-revolutionary years.

House-Museum of Peter I

The house-museum of Peter I is located in the historical part of the city, in the area of the lower settlement on the embankment of the Vologda River, in former house Gutmanov is the only surviving building of the estate of Dutch merchants. Peter I stayed in this house several times during his visits to Vologda.

His first visit to the Vologda region took place in the summer of 1692. After his overseas training in shipbuilding, Peter again came to Vologda, where he visited his friends - the Dutch merchants Gutman. At one time, the Gutmans helped Peter, who found himself in Holland without funds, with money. In 1724, Peter with Tsarina Ekaterina Alekseevna last time were in Vologda. They stayed with the Gutmans for two days.

To perpetuate the memory of the Great Sovereign, in 1872 the city authorities bought this house, and on June 5, 1885, grand opening museum.

Now the museum has about a hundred exhibits. The oldest of them are already three hundred years old. These are chairs that belonged to the owners of the house with the engraving “A.G.” - “Adolf Gutman” - and the coat of arms of the Dutch queen. Among the unique exhibits are the camisoles of Peter I and his death mask. In the museum there is also a portrait of Peter, presented by the emperor himself to the Archbishop of Vologda, and a cup of his faithful friend Prince Menshikov with the inscription “Vivat, Prince Alexander Danilovich!” Here you can see a traveling wine flask of a soldier of Peter’s army, with an incised teaching: “Drink anise wine , don’t lose your mind.”

Locomotive Depot Museum

The Vologda Locomotive Depot Museum is a railway museum located on the territory of the Vologda locomotive depot. The museum's attendance is very small, since there are no special excursions in the museum. About 500 visitors come every year.

The museum occupies a hall of sixty square meters, as well as an open area. The Locomotive Depot Museum was founded in the late 50s of the 20th century. It began as a room of military and labor glory. The room was located in the building of the locomotive depot club. But at the end of 1970, the “Museum of Military and Labor Glory”. Materials for the museum were collected bit by bit from the local history museum and from the family archives of depot workers.

Museum "Literature. Art. Century XX"

Museum "Literature. Art. Century XX" is a branch of the Vologda State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve. It is one of four literary museums in Vologda, together with the museums of K.N. Batyushkova, V. I. Belova and V.T. Shalamov. The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the poet N.M. Rubtsov and composer V.A. Gavrilina.

Vologda State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve (VGIAHMZ; Vologda State Museum-Reserve; VGMZ)- museum center of the Vologda region, a research and educational institution with several branches, a repository of artistic, historical, architectural, literary and other monuments of material and spiritual culture, as well as nature.

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The VGIAHMZ collection includes collections from the first museums of Vologda: the House-Museum of Peter I, the Diocesan Ancient Repository, Art Museum Northern Circle of Fine Arts Lovers and the Museum of Homeland Studies.

The branch of the Yaroslavl Natural History Society (until 1905) also contributed to the VGIAHMZ collection, whose members managed to collect several dozen natural history collections: valuable collections of fossils, minerals, natural materials and handicrafts.

The fundamental part of the VGIAHMZ collection consists of church antiquities received from the Museum of Icon Painting and Church Antiquities, which inherited the collection of the Diocesan Archival Repository, established in 1896 - icons, utensils, written sources, including those not directly related to religion, such as herbariums or paleontological material.

Natural history collections. The natural history collection includes biological, zoological, geological and entomological collections.

Household Wood Collection. The collection is represented by a collection of spinning wheels from all regions of the Vologda and, partially, Arkhangelsk regions, peasant painted furniture, slotted birch bark, the so-called. "Shemogodskaya". The collection widely includes tools for agriculture, cattle breeding, flax growing, and various crafts. Also presented are artistic furniture from the 17th-20th centuries, rare examples of carved furniture from the early 18th century with polychrome and gilding, sets of furniture from the 19th century from Vologda estates, and samples of products from leading manufacturers of “Viennese “furniture”.

Other collections. The collection contains a collection of foreign graphics, porcelain from Russian and Western European factories of the 16th-20th centuries, tiles, religious monuments made of metal, collections musical instruments, tools of labor and everyday life, samples of products from enterprises in the Vologda region. The museum contains extensive collections of film, photo and phonological documents, a collection of numismatics, phaleristics and bonistics, including storage complexes of the 15th-20th centuries, as well as coins of the Bosporan Kingdom of the 3rd-2nd centuries BC. e., archeology fund with objects and collections from the Mesolithic to the late Middle Ages.

Vologda Museum of Local Lore

Vologda State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve (VGIAHMZ; Vologda state museum-reserve; VGMZ)- museum center of the Vologda region, a research and educational institution with several branches, a repository of artistic, historical, architectural, literary and other monuments of material and spiritual culture, as well as nature.

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The VGIAHMZ collection includes collections from the first museums of Vologda: the House Museum of Peter I, the Diocesan Ancient Repository, the Art Museum of the Northern Circle of Amateurs fine arts and the Museum of Homeland Studies.

The fundamental part of the VGIAHMZ collection consists of church antiquities received from the Museum of Icon Painting and Church Antiquities, which inherited the collection of the Diocesan Archaeological Repository, established in 1896 - icons, utensils, written sources, including those not directly related to religion, such as herbariums or paleontological material.

World-famous rarities presented in the exhibition “Ancient Russian Art” of the Three-story building of the Bishop's Court are: “Zyryan Trinity” of the 14th century, “Our Lady of Tenderness (Tolga)” of the 14th century, icons by Dionysius of Moscow “Dmitry Prilutsky” ca. 1503 and “Assumption” con. XV - beginning 16th century, Deesis rite from the Pokrovsky Glushitsky Monastery. XV - beginning XVI centuries etc. In the collection wooden sculpture works of the 16th-19th centuries are presented. Most early works are the bas-reliefs “St. Paraskeva Friday” of the 16th century. and “St. George the Victorious” of the 16th century. The museum's collections include large number monuments from this collection, however, due to the lack of exhibition space, they are exhibited in small numbers.

Fabric collection. In the collection of cult fabrics of the 16th-19th centuries. there are liturgical sets, shrouds, shrouds, embroidered icons, vestments and frames for paintings, and clergy clothes. The most valuable are the works of facial embroidery that came out of the workshops of the Stroganovs, Miloslavskys, Rzhevskaya and northern monastery svetlitsa.

Ethnographic collections are of great value. Collections of clothing samples from the 17th century from almost all districts (districts) of the Vologda region (province), including women's Old Believer costume, are presented.

Natural history collections. The natural history collection includes biological, zoological, geological and entomological collections.

Other collections. The collection contains a collection of foreign graphics, porcelain from Russian and Western European factories of the 16th-20th centuries, tiles, religious monuments made of metal, collections of musical instruments, labor and household tools, samples of products from enterprises in the Vologda region. The museum contains extensive collections of film, photo and phonological documents, a collection of numismatics, phaleristics and bonistics, including storage complexes of the 15th-20th centuries, as well as coins of the Bosporan Kingdom of the 3rd-2nd centuries BC. e., archeology fund with objects and collections from the Mesolithic to the late Middle Ages.

Exhibitions and exhibitions

Vologda Kremlin

On the territory of the Vologda Kremlin (Bishop's Compound) there are permanent exhibitions:

Old Russian art
Vologda arts and crafts
Folk art
South-West Tower of the Kremlin (exhibition “Vologda Lace”)
Nature department
History Department

Monuments open to the public include St. Sophia Cathedral and the Bell Tower

Branches

Exhibition complex “Vologda at the turn of the century”
Architectural and Ethnographic Museum of the Vologda Region
Museum "World of Forgotten Things"
House-Museum of the poet K. N. Batyushkov
House-Museum of A.F. Mozhaisky
Museum "Literature. Art. Century XX"

The Vologda State Museum-Reserve includes several architectural and historical monuments, occupying a total area of more than nine thousand square meters. Its funds contain works of art, archaeological finds, cult values, ethnographic and numismatic collections, ancient manuscripts and much more. The complex includes a number of museums and temples, exhibition grounds, storage facilities and gardening areas. Every year it welcomes more than 200 thousand guests - Vologda residents, residents of neighboring regions and remote regions, tourists from near and far abroad.

The museum staff has developed more than 80 excursions around the departments of the museum, as well as ten walking and bus routes covering important sights of the Vologda region. Within the framework of the state museum-reserve, scientific and educational work is carried out, seminars, lectures, master classes, temporary exhibitions, and events for festive and anniversary events are organized. Exhibits from museum collections have traveled to several European countries and even to the Vatican.

Expositions of the Vologda Museum-Reserve

The museum ensemble includes more than four dozen architectural monuments, and the depository has about half a million storage units. Here you can see the surviving collections of the first Vologda museums, valuable collections of minerals and handicrafts received as a gift from the Yaroslavl Natural History Society, post-revolutionary receipts from empty churches, monasteries and noble estates. Many antiquities, ethnographic and artistic arts were discovered during expeditions of 1960-80, some of the exhibits were accepted from private collectors or purchased.

The main collections of the Vologda Museum-Reserve are:

Old Russian painting - icons of the 16th-19th centuries created by Vologda masters, among them world-famous rarities. Many have signatures and dates;
wooden sculpture and religious carvings of the 16th–19th centuries. — bas-reliefs, details of lost iconostases, images of Christ, polychrome and gilded sculptures, elements of the “royal doors”;
collection of fine art art XVII- beginning of the 20th century. — portraits, graphics, artistic canvases, engravings, etc.;
fabrics - separately: lace, religious and household. The first collection introduces the history of Vologda bobbin lace, starting from the 18th century. The second consists of vestments of clergy, embroidered icons, liturgical sets, etc. The segment of the third collection covers peasant clothes and the wardrobe of Peter I, ritual outfits of shamans and samples of uniforms of Soviet officers;

household wood - painted and carved furniture, tools, a collection of spinning wheels;
metal - objects of religious and household use, a collection of decorative and applied arts and products of Vologda industrial enterprises, various mechanisms and equipment. Particularly popular are the exhibitions of samovars and bells;
ceramics - porcelain of the 16th-20th centuries, tiles of the 18th-19th centuries, decorative figurines, everyday dishes;
products made of pearls, precious metals and stones of the 15th-20th centuries. — works by different masters and periods, serial and exhibition pieces, unique jewelry, sewing, frames, vestments;
sector of written sources - books, manuscripts, parchments, ancient documents, archival documents related to the history of the Vologda region;
collection of film, photo and sound documents - negatives and original photographs, films and records, audio materials and postcards of the Vologda region;
archaeological department - finds dating back to the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Middle Ages, found during excavations in different areas of the region. Next to the arrowheads there are decorations, vessels, combs, etc.;
numismatics - the most ancient coins date back to the 3rd-2nd centuries. BC e., and the earliest banknotes date back to the reign of Alexander I. The funds contain banknotes, discovered in several treasures on the territory of the region and the city, as well as medals, insignia, tokens, etc.;
natural science collection - includes 5 expositions: zoological, paleontological, botanical, entomological and geological.

Operating branches

The Vologda Museum-Reserve includes nine objects.

Free entry is provided to several categories of visitors:

children under 7 years old;
Heroes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, full holders of the Order of Glory;
participants of the Second World War, military operations and liquidation of the Chernobyl accident;
orphans and members of large families;
disabled people I-II groups;
craftsmen and students of art schools;
museum staff;
persons under 18 years of age, Suvorov and Nakhimov students, residents of the Vologda region - on the third Wednesday of every month.

The Vologda Museum-Reserve provides a whole series paid services— excursions, master classes, interactive classes, conducting examinations, organizing events, etc.

From Vologda you can get to the architectural and ethnographic complex “Semenkovo” (stop “Semenkovo 2”) by buses No. 37, 403, 405, 421, 37E. By car - along the A119 highway.

It is convenient to order a taxi in Vologda using the Maxim, Rutaxi and Yandex mobile applications. Taxi.