There is an assumption that the roots of the weaving industry go back to Ivanovo. The Museum of Ivanovo Chintz gathered in its walls a large number of diverse evidence of this fact, which has no analogues in the whole world. In this place you can see all kinds of products made at one time by the best city and regional craftsmen, including ancient handmade exhibits, as well as samples of weaver’s tools. We learn a lot of interesting things about this museum from the article below.
Historical facts
The Museum of Ivanovo Chintz was founded in the eighties of the last century. More than a hundred enterprises of the region took part in its construction. It is located in a beautiful and large house, the construction of which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century. This building was made in the "modern" style and belonged to the once famous Ivanovo manufacturer - D. G. Burylin, who was fond of chintz items and collected their collections.
In this cultural institution, not only ancient
homespun cloths are carefully stored
, but also the history of the appearance of these materials is presented, as well as a detailed account of how chintz production used to take place.
Currently, periodic reconstruction of the museum building is underway, in 2013 a large rhinoceros, completely made of chintz material, was installed near it.
Detailed description
The Museum of Ivanovo Chintz is the youngest branch of IGIKM, whose collections are dedicated to the history and culture of this region. The exterior of his building has a complex and interesting architectural layout. The ancestral house of Burylin is decorated with various stained-glass windows, carved doors, a beautiful decorative tile and other all kinds of decor details of that time.
The museum exhibition hall with the main collections is located in the rooms of the mansion. In addition, in the courtyard there are also buildings of former outbuildings, where the library and stock rooms are located.
What can you see?
At the moment, this museum has collected more than 500 thousand various interesting exhibits. His main collection is called Ivanovo Textiles. This exhibition can tell visitors about all stages of the development of spinning and weaving in this corner of the country, starting from ancient times and ending with the present.
This collection presents unique samples of fabrics and various works of decorative art that were previously in the textile fund of V. G. Burylin. Here you can see beautiful costumes, tools that once served the peasants for the production of canvases, as well as special boards, with which all kinds of drawings were applied to fabrics.
The Ivanovo Textiles collection is characterized by a wide variety of exhibits reflecting folk art traditions that have developed over many centuries. It contains ancient chintz samples that introduce visitors to this institution to the little-studied area of folk art - the decoration of fabrics. The most valuable collections in this collection are fans, paintings and scarves from the late 19th - early 20th century.
New exhibition
Another exposition dedicated to Vyacheslav Zaitsev, the famous fashion designer born in this small town, opened in the museum premises nine years ago. This collection can tell visitors everything about the life and work of this talented person, who is also the president of the salon in Ivanovo, where a competition of outfits among Russian manufacturing companies is held. People entering the exhibition hall enter the hero’s living space, and with the help of technical means they can even chat live with this great master.
This exhibition was able to show the invisible connection of past traditions with modernity, therefore, it harmoniously blended with the conceptual development that the Museum of Ivanovo Chintz and its employees developed for themselves. In addition, the talented V. Zaitsev every new season replenishes the exhibition with new outfits from his shows. Thanks to this, visitors to this institution can learn for themselves something useful from the world of fashion.
In addition to such unique collections and exhibits, there is much more that can be learned by visiting the Museum of Ivanovo Chintz. The history of Russian costume or ancient looms are one of those topics to which the guide of this cultural institution pays most attention.
Impressions of visitors
Since this museum house is one of the main attractions of the city, many visitors, as well as local residents themselves went there on excursions, and more than once. In their opinion, this museum is made very competently in terms of design. Most of the visitors are deeply impressed by his pre-revolutionary photographs depicting Ivanovo workers and many other people associated in some way with the weaving industry.
The expositions of this cultural institution show all the significant and memorable moments associated with the light industry of the Ivanovo Territory. Therefore, those people who are interested in chintz fabric and everything connected with it should undoubtedly visit this museum at least once.
Some visitors come to this institution also in order to admire a beautiful mansion in which rich interior decoration has been preserved. The museum employs very nice and lovely employees who can conduct an interesting and informative tour and leave a good impression of visiting exhibitions.
Opening hours and prices
For those who wish to visit this museum, the following information will be useful: the institution starts its work at 11:00 in the morning, and ends at 17:00 in the evening, except Thursday, because on this day it opens at 13:30 and closes at 9 p.m. The museum has a day off only once a month and falls on every first Monday, and the sanitary day - on the last Friday.
The ticket price for adults is 70 rubles. Full-time students and people of retirement age can get to the museum for 40 rubles, and young visitors for 25 rubles. Children under six years old can attend for free. In the event that an organized group of ten people wants to get into the institution, for them a ticket will also cost 40 rubles.
Contact details
Perhaps, there is not a single resident in the village who would not know where the Ivanovo chintz museum is located. Ivanovo Region, Baturin Street, 11/42 in the city of Ivanovo - this is his address.
To clarify any information of interest or about tickets, you can call this phone number: +7 (4932) 416-426.
How to get there?
If you get there by train from the capital of Russia, then this road will take about nine hours. If you use a car, the trip will be half as long.
In Ivanovo, this museum can be reached by public transport from any corner of the city. There goes bus number 11, tram number 2, number 5, number 6, as well as a trolley bus number 8 or number 3. They all reach straight to the Hospital stop, where the described cultural institution is located.
In that small town where this museum is located, dedicated to chintz and everything connected with it, there are not so many attractions. Therefore, this interesting mansion with its unique expositions is a rather striking and noteworthy place in this village. All the townspeople love this museum very much and are incredibly proud of it.
And, despite the fact that today the weaving industry of this city is experiencing its decline, in this magnificent building - the former house of the philanthropist and collector Burylin - more than half a million different valuable exhibits of different times are treasured so that future generations can learn about how it originated industrial business, as well as decorative and applied folk art.