In Tyumen there are museums of various subjects. Here, visitors and locals will be able to get acquainted with the history of the city, with the main events that took place in the harsh Siberian region. It is worth noting that museums in Tyumen offer a lot of interesting things for children. Here, not only they are introduced to cultural development and introduced to the historical heritage of the city, but also hold master classes for the younger generation. There are also such institutions where they talk about how this region lives at present. City guests are recommended to visit the museums of Tyumen. The list of these organizations, it is worth noting, rather big. The city has more than 30 different museums. In this article I would like to acquaint you with the most popular.
Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts is located in a historic building in the city center . Here are collected items telling about the history of this region, folk crafts and the work of West Siberian artists is presented. Exhibits will be interesting to different categories of visitors. Parents often visit museums in Tyumen with their children. It is especially interesting for kids to consider different unique products and works of famous masters.
The Museum of Fine Arts has permanent exhibits:
- "White Tale" - the exhibition is dedicated to the art of bone carving.
- "Rhythms of the city" - an exhibition that presents the work of artists of the last century. Landscapes of the city, its attractions, portraits and sculptures, also related to Tyumen.
- “Good hands skill” - household items made of porcelain, ceramics, glass, telling about the daily needs of the residents of the region.
Museum "Masharov House"
Tyumen museums not only acquaint with the crafts of past centuries, but also talk about famous people who have made a great contribution to the development of the Siberian region. One of these is the Masharov House. The mansion, which was built at the end of the 19th century, vividly displays the features of neoclassicism. Here lived Nikolai Dmitrievich Masharov, a merchant, industrialist who founded the first iron foundries in Tyumen. The merchant house was awarded the title of architectural monument of federal significance. Various temporary compositions are arranged here, and among the permanent ones there is an exposition telling about the life of a famous resident of the city, about its way of life. All items from the exhibition previously belonged to this family. Visitors will be able to plunge into the era of merchant times, see how the relationship developed in the family, how the children were brought up, based on the principles of respect for elders and for the homeland.
Museum of Medicine
This museum presents an interesting exposition of the history of the development of medicine in the Tobolsk province and the Tyumen region from the beginning of its formation to modern technologies. There are departments dedicated to researchers, scientists, without which the development of medicine today would not be possible. Of course, such museums in Tyumen are mainly visited by adults and adolescents. For the latter, there are lectures.
The museum is located at the base of the Tyumen State Medical Academy. It also tells about the history of the university. Here are collected personal items of the best graduates, monographs, rare archival documents.
Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas
There are also such museums in Tyumen, which tell about the main mineral resources of the region, methods of their extraction. As you know, in the north of Russia there is a constant production of gas and oil. They are the main components of the country's economy. If you visit the Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas, you can get acquainted with how this industry has developed. It will be interesting here first of all to a specialist, but a simple visitor who at least once wondered how the process of extraction of black gold happens in the bowels of the earth will get a lot of vivid impressions. A lot of video footage from the northern parts of the region. The chronology and evolution of geological research methods and methods of raw material extraction are described. In the north, geologists had to deal with local peoples, so the museum has a section on everyday life, the culture of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets. You can see their homes, national clothes.