Perm museums (the photo below shows the Meshkov House) are represented by thirteen units. The most visited museum of the city is the Perm Art Gallery. It houses the world-famous collection of Perm wooden sculptures.
Perm museums can be proud of their employees. They employ 908 people. Six people have a degree, most with higher education, the rest received a secondary special. Many have work experience of over 10 years.
Branch opening
Museum of Local Lore (Perm) has its history since 1890. During its existence, it has repeatedly changed its location. But from 2007 to this day, its main building is the Meshkov House. Meshkov was a major local entrepreneur, philanthropist. He acquired the building in 1886. According to the project of architect A. B. Turchevich, a restoration was carried out, as a result of which the building takes a modern look and is one of the most beautiful mansions of old Perm. An exposition is dedicated to the history of the Perm Territory.
Museum of Local Lore (Perm) not so long ago opened a new branch, it happened in 2011. He was conceived in 2009, as part of the famous cultural revolution of the city, which was just starting its movement. And today the Museum of Perm Antiquities offers everyone to follow the evolution path - from the birth of life on the planet to the era of mammals.
Perm land kept a large number of ancient burials, which made a tangible contribution not only to domestic paleontology, but also to the world. Therefore, the collected collections of the Perm region are priceless. The exhibition is open precisely on the ground of the historical homeland of these finds, and it should be so, because Perm is the only city that is forever included in world geology and paleontology.
Museum of Perm Antiquities
The "Night of Museums" in Perm was held for the eighth time. This name is very arbitrary, since all the events took place in the evening, from 18 o’clock. Perm museums met their audience with a wide program that ended with a festive fireworks display. What could be more romantic than a night spent with dinosaurs?
We go to them. The first museum hall is called "Paleocontact". There are many children here, they are noticeably more than adults, they are well-versed in what is happening, they act boldly and look with curiosity, they also create crafts and draw in the "Primitive Illustrator Workshop". Looking at our guys, one involuntarily thinks that the children of ancient people were probably just as fearless and mobile. And if they met in some parallel world, they would surely find a common language.
Perm geological period
Near the Library of Paleontological Discoveries, a crowd of children gathered to read aloud. The boy leads with a confident voice the story of great scientists, ancient creatures, travels, unknown lands, about the Permian geological period, which is the only one in the history of our Earth has a Russian name. Everyone discovered this with enthusiasm and surprise. We learn further that it began 299 million years ago and lasted 50 million years. At that time, instead of our six, there was only one supercontinent, and around it a huge ocean stretched - Pantalassa. We are trying to learn, feel and understand everything that happened on our planet in the distant past.
Awesome exhibits rise above visitors. One can imagine that at this very place there is now a wild forest of that time, which is teeming with scavengers, amphibians, camakops, beast-eating reptiles, leafosaurs, and you are small and defenseless. Moving on, we finally see the mammoth. Not far from him stands his cub - the cute mammoth Dima, a copy of the same mammoth that was found in the Magadan Region in 1977.
What did the ancient animals feel?
The organizer of the exhibition, Natalia Afanasyeva, says that paleontology evokes memories of creatures that lived in ancient times on our Earth. It revives in memory those who are no longer with us, and those who live today. The basis of this exhibition is the memory of the past of the planet. It is preserved in fossils, minerals, books about discoveries in paleontology. Using these tools, we are trying to recreate the full picture of that time: what were the ancient animals, what did they feel, what was their environment, what was nature at that time?
A large team is working on this now: musicians who play authentic ethnic instruments, animators, moderators of the audiovisual performance "Voices of the Earth and the Wind." They are the ones who embody this fantasy.
Are the exhibits alive?
Museum of Perm Antiquities sounds. The voices of visitors merge with the song of the flute, with the ringing of Tibetan bowls, the thud of the drum, something vibrates and clicks. By peering and listening, one can distinguish between the rustle of plants and the whisper of the wind, the reflections of light and the shadow of strange creatures. Dinosaurs hear and feel all this with us, sensing our presence.
Life extension
One of the creators of the performance “Voices of the Earth and the Wind” Alexei Khoroshev says that people come to the Museum of Perm Antiquities (Perm) to look at ordinary bones. But this is not just the remaining memory of the animals that once inhabited our planet. Bones are evidence of evolution. They prove that we are a continuation of life. It does not disappear and is scattered everywhere, breathing, making sounds, glowing, flowing from one form to another.
Any place has the ability to accumulate energy, and if bright music sounded there, then it is necessarily positive. And if good people gather , then it turns into a place of accumulation of power. So says one philosopher.
Museum of Perm Antiquities says goodbye to us. The street, meeting with rain, awakens with reality. But the Permians and guests of the city will be imprinted in the consciousness of huge majestic creatures that left planet Earth about 65 million years ago.