International Museum Day is celebrated on May 18th. Museum Night promotion: free admission in May
Thanks to the creation of museums, humanity has the opportunity to preserve exclusive world values. Unlike private collections, which actually became the progenitors of modern museums, government agencies display their exhibits for public viewing.
In addition to storing and collecting things that have cultural or historical value, museums engage in educational work and also conduct extensive research activities.
The international community could not ignore the importance of issues related to the work and development of the museum. Therefore, in May, not only museum workers, but the entire cultural world celebrates International Museum Day.
May 18 International Museum Day: the history of the origin of the holiday
Despite quite rich history international, public and private museums, questions about their importance for cultural development societies began to rise only in the twentieth century.
The post-war years are associated with the restoration of not only the housing and manufacturing sectors.
A lot of effort had to be made to resume the work of many museums.
After all, many exhibits were taken out, spoiled, damaged and even lost without a trace.
It was at this time in 1946 that international organization Council of Museums, whose members are representatives of more than a hundred countries. Every year the organization expands, accepting new members.
Of course, among the first members of the Union of Museums were representatives of the USSR. At that time, quite a lot of unique museums existed and were restoring their activities in the country.
Since then, the organization has regularly held general conferences to discuss global museum issues.
During the 11th General Conference, the delegation from the USSR proposed organizing a World Holiday. The initiative was supported unanimously.
And already in 1978, a year after the establishment of the solemn date, the holiday of museums began to be celebrated in 150 countries.
The purpose of the holiday is not just to celebrate the tireless work of museum workers, which is important, but to focus the attention of society and management organizations on the problems of preserving museum valuables.
The question is regularly raised about how to enable more ordinary citizens have access to familiarize themselves with the exhibits.
Museum workers try to attract the attention of as many members of the public as possible to their problems.
To maintain interest in their activities, museums have to introduce new technologies.
In an age of rapid development, information innovations have not spared museums.
Quite interesting are the interactive exhibits that attract visitors with their uniqueness.
The advent of the World Wide Web has made access to museum exhibitions less problematic.
Now you can get acquainted with the exhibitions of world-famous museums without leaving your home, thanks to the organization of virtual exhibitions.
When do people congratulate you on Museum Day? This wonderful holiday is celebrated annually on May 18th. Moreover, it must be thematic. The selection and approval of festive themes is carried out by the same Council of Museums, which established the celebration in 1977.
Traditions and events for International Museum Day on May 18
Anyone interested cultural life, is known to celebrate Museum Day.
It is not news to many that on this day all museums in the world open their doors to interested visitors. Moreover, visits on a holiday are absolutely free.
Therefore, many people look forward to this day to attend exclusive exhibitions.
Such a step on the part of museums really makes Museum Day festive for many ordinary people. Since it is completely dedicated to holding various cultural events.
But it is worth considering that the popularity of Museum Day is growing every year and more and more people want to see exhibitions for free.
Therefore, to get into the museum, you will have to stand in line.
Some museums allow photography and video shooting on this day, which is usually prohibited.
Visitors have an exclusive opportunity to capture famous exhibits and take memorable photos.
For museum workers, preparations for the holiday begin well in advance.
Thematic exhibitions are being prepared for Museum Day.
Venerable masters and young talents have the opportunity to show their works in museum halls.
Museums also try to carry out educational work, for which purpose they organize special programs aimed at attracting schoolchildren and students.
The events held help to attract young people to the study of cultural and historical heritage.
Most large-scale events are held in large and regional cities, where famous museums are concentrated.
However museum workers small institutions that are located in small towns and forgotten villages try to hold a specialized holiday at the same level.
They also prepare interesting events to attract visitors.
Museum Night promotion: free admission in May
Young people are also gaining popularity international action Museum Night, which takes place annually from Saturday to Sunday in May.
The initiative to carry out such an unusual action belongs to the French.
Quite quickly, many museums around the world joined the action.
On this day, museum doors are open at night.
Inviting visitors, museum workers prepare special programs, which becomes key point stock.
Concerts, art projects, video presentations attract a large number of interested visitors. In addition, master classes can be held, which makes it possible not only to get acquainted with the exhibits, but also to learn certain skills for free.
For the first time, an event dedicated to a night visit to the museum was held in Russia in Krasnoyarsk museum center. The event took place in 2002.
Every year more and more museums join the action. And not only public, but also commercial and private galleries.
Most museums hold the promotion absolutely free, but to visit iconic exhibitions or unique shows you will have to purchase a ticket.
Each museum has its own unique story and be proud of exclusive exhibits that are found in a single copy.
Regardless of popularity, any museum has a certain value.
When visiting unfamiliar cities and countries, any person tries first of all to get acquainted with the exhibits of famous museums.
Of course, it is impossible to pass by world-famous museums such as the Louvre in Paris or the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
But there are many collections that are not world famous, but are of interest to visitors. In addition to historical or artistic exhibits, museums display some rather unusual things.
An interesting museum located in Massachusetts. It features unsuccessful artwork.
A person's attitude towards art is quite ambiguous. But for some masterpieces, the best place is in such an unusual museum.
Museum human body introduces its visitors in detail to the structure of the body.
The main exhibit is made in the form of a 35-meter figure, on which you can see any part of the body; in addition, the exhibition is accompanied by realistic sounds and smells.
IN South Korea you can visit unusual museum, which contains various teddy bears.
The exhibits include both miniature toys and giant bears.
The Museum of Lies is located in Germany. The entire collection of exhibits is not genuine.
No, these are not fakes, these are objects that are not found in life, but are well known to visitors from fairy tales or fables.
Here you can see Van Gogh's ear, cut off by the mad artist.
And such exhibits as a flying carpet or walking boots are probably impossible to find in any other museum in the world.
At the Museum of Unhappy Love, located in Croatia, you can get acquainted with various symbols of unrequited feelings.
The exhibits here are: broken hearts, love correspondence.
There are many unusual and exclusive museums in the world. Therefore, anyone can choose interesting exhibitions for themselves.
And you don't have to wait until Museum Day to visit a museum.
But if, due to the daily bustle and worries, there is no opportunity to join cultural events, take this opportunity to dedicate Museum Day to expanding your own horizons.
Themes for International Museum Day
The theme of the holiday changes every year. Usually the topics are related to the problems of museums or the development of certain areas.
The holiday in 2009 was dedicated to museums and tourism. In 2010, the issue of the role of museums in social harmony was understood.
The theme of the 2011 holiday was historical memory. In the anniversary year of 2012, issues of the place of museums in the modern world were considered.
The theme of 2013 touched upon social change societies influenced by museums. For 2014, the theme was developed in the direction of combining museum collections.
In 2015, the problems of symbiosis between museums and social development were highlighted. The slogan of the 2016 holiday is “Museums and cultural landscapes.”
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Today, May 18, the world celebrates International Museum Day and World AIDS Remembrance Day. In Russia today we can celebrate the Day Baltic Fleet, Ukraine celebrates the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Lovers folk art, and Kyrgyzstan is Mother's Day.
World AIDS Day of Remembrance
Every third Sunday in May, World AIDS Day is celebrated around the world. On this day, everyone remembers their relatives and friends, and just acquaintances who died of AIDS. This year, the date of May 18 became this day of remembrance, designed to draw attention to the problems of HIV carriers and AIDS patients throughout the world community. And also take all measures possible in the world against the spread of this disease.
World AIDS Day was first celebrated in 1983 in the American city of San Francisco. A few years later, a red ribbon appeared - as a symbol of the movement against this disease, it was invented by artist Frank Moore in 1991. Today, on World AIDS Remembrance Day, people who care about this problem and activists attach red ribbons to their clothes.
On our planet, according to statistics World Association healthcare, today there are about 42 million people living with HIV, the immunodeficiency virus. and every day this figure increases by 14–15 thousand.
HIV-infected people are mainly young people under the age of 30, of which about 25 million have died from AIDS over the past 25 years. Two thirds of all cases live in Africa. On this “dark continent,” according to some scientists, every third adult is infected with HIV, but there are countries where more than 90 percent of the population is infected with the virus.
International Museum Day - May 18
Today, May 18, workers around the world celebrate their annual professional holiday— International Museum Day. This holiday can also be celebrated by those of us who are constantly looking forward to another visit to the local history museum of our city or a meeting with various rare exhibits of the Hermitage or Louvre museums, which are also involved in this holiday, which appeared on the calendar in 1977, when the proposal for establishment of this cultural holiday at the International Council of Museums. Since 1978, International Museum Day has been celebrated in more than 150 countries.
Baltic Fleet Day of the Russian Navy
In Russia today, May 18, in honor of the creation of the Baltic Fleet, an annual holiday is celebrated - the Day of the Baltic Fleet of the Navy. It was established on the basis of an order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Russian Federation December 19, 1995 in honor of the event of May 18, 1703, when the flotilla of the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments under the command of Peter I of 30 boats with soldiers won their first military victory, capturing two Swedish military ships at the mouth of the Neva River. This day became the birthday of the Russian Baltic Fleet.
All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Folk Art Lovers
Every third Sunday in May, Ukraine celebrates a holiday - the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Folk Art Lovers. This year this holiday fell on May 18th. Initially, the holiday was established by Decree of the President of Ukraine in March 2000 and was celebrated on March 23, but in 2011 the holiday was moved to May Sunday by Decree of the President of Ukraine.
Mother's Day in the Kyrgyz Republic
Today, May 18th at Kyrgyz Republic Mother's Day is celebrated. This is one of the traditions of respect and honoring the mother, which has deep roots among the people of Kyrgyzstan. The initiator of this annual holiday was the Russian Unification Union of Compatriots in Kyrgyzstan in 2005. But only on March 7, 2012, it was decided to establish such a day in the country, and on April 23, 2012, President Almazbek Atambayev signed the Decree “On the establishment of Mother’s Day in the Kyrgyz Republic,” and now this holiday is celebrated every third Sunday of May.
Unusual holidays
On this day, May 18, you can celebrate a romantic holiday - the Day of Meeting the Beautiful and a fun, cool holiday - the Birthday of the May Bug.
The day of meeting the beautiful
On this beautiful spring, maybe even sunny day, you can celebrate the Day of Meeting the Beautiful. Feel how pleasant it is to find yourself at a cool blue-green waterfall. Listen to how the flow of water sounds, how its song flows around. How beautiful is the stream against the background of the forest! A ordinary trees so beautiful today! They are many times more beautiful than diamonds shimmering in the sun! And above all this beauty - a clear, beautiful blue sky!
May 18th is the birthday of the May zhzhzhzhuk!
They'll come up with holidays!
On this May day you can find a cool holiday chafer and congratulate him on his birthday::
On the birthday of zhzhzhzhuk
Let's sit with him by the tree stump,
Let the bug tell us
Like a moth flies
How do caterpillars live?
How an ant is not lazy...
Church holiday in the folk calendar
Arina Kapustnitsa, Arina Rassadnitsa
On this day, Orthodox Christians honor the memory of Irina (or, according to Russian tradition, Arina) of Macedonia, who became the first woman to be venerated among the great martyrs. Irina of Macedonia was born into the family of the ruler of one of the regions of Macedonia - the pagan Licinius in the 1st century. She was taught by her mentor Christian Apelian, who hid his religion.
Irina subsequently also converted to Christianity. Ruler Zedekiah, who came after Irina's father left to take over as ruler, began persecution against Christians. The girl was also tortured, but no torture did her any harm and she, later becoming famous for her ability to heal the sick, lived long life.
In Rus', on Irina (Arina), as well as on Marfa, seedlings were planted in the beds: cabbage and cucumbers. People believed that only women should do this and so that no one would jinx the seedlings, they were planted completely alone. To make the forks big, white and tight, the first sprout of cabbage must be covered big pot, and the pot itself was covered with a white tablecloth. Then nettles were sown along the edges of the bed, which, as was believed in ancient times, repelled harmful insects and evil spirits. At the same time, the peasants used sayings: “Nettles for the devils, cabbage for us!”
White cabbage was the most favorite vegetable among the people. There are still many sayings about it today: “Without cabbage, cabbage soup is not thick.”
On this day, other work was also carried out - to get rid of old and dried grass, mowing was burned.
One of the types of round dance, which was common in ancient times in the northern regions, was called “Cabbage”.
Name day May 18 from: Adrian, Irina (Arina), Yakov
A museum is a temple in which monuments of material and spiritual culture created in different countries are carefully collected and preserved. historical stages development of society. Priceless collections paintings, interior and household items, sculpture, collections of coins, books, natural history monuments - this is a centuries-old heritage, the value of which will only grow from year to year, and a wealth that belongs to all humanity.
The Hermitage, Tretyakov Gallery, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Prado in Madrid, Archaeological Museum in Cairo are known throughout the world. But in almost every locality every country has its own local history museum, which stores rare items related to its history and stages of development. International Museum Day is a professional holiday for all galleries in the world, and for all museum workers who carry out enormous educational, popularization and pedagogical work.
History of International Museum Day
International Museum Day is celebrated annually on May 18th. The history of the holiday is closely connected with the creation in 1946 of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which set the main goal of providing comprehensive support for the activities of museums. Representatives of more than 115 countries, including the USSR, immediately joined the work of the Council. It was on the initiative Soviet Union In 1977, ICOM established a new professional holiday - World Museum Workers' Day. The celebrations took place for the first time in 1978. Nowadays, the holiday is widely celebrated in 150 countries around the world. After all, almost any state has many museums that constitute its national heritage.
Traditions of International Museum Day
In honor of the holiday, museums and galleries around the world organize thematic exhibitions, exhibitions with the participation of young artists, hold special events for specialists and the general public, excursions for school and preschool children. On the holiday, many galleries host popular science lectures and conferences, dedicated to issues development of museums and their role in the modern world.
With the development of Internet technologies, masterpieces of world art are becoming available to an increasingly wider range of people. Now you can see the world's best collections in virtual museums, whose popularity is growing day by day.
On this holiday, congratulate all the museum workers you know. These people deserve the deepest respect, because their contribution to the conservation cultural heritage humanity is invaluable.
Conversation “International Museum Day”
Every year on May 18, museum workers around the world celebrate their professional holiday. And, of course, those of us who are looking forward to another trip to the local history museum of our city or meeting with rare exhibits of the Hermitage or Louvre are also involved in today's holiday.
International Museum Day appeared on the calendar in 1977, when at the next meeting of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) a proposal was adopted Russian organization on the establishment of this cultural holiday.
Since 1978, International Museum Day has been celebrated in more than 150 countries. In 2014, International Museum Day will be held under the motto: “ Museum collections unite."
It is generally accepted that through museums society expresses its attitude towards historical and cultural heritage, and it is difficult to disagree with this. By collecting and storing monuments of material and spiritual culture, museums carry out extensive scientific, educational and educational work.
TO this holiday The international event “Night of Museums” is also timed. As a rule, it is held on the night from Saturday to Sunday closest to May 18.
Night of Museums is an initiative of German colleagues. In Russia, the Night of Museums has already been held several times. Non-state museums and private galleries are joining this action in Russia.
According to experts, over time, the Night of Museums will gain popularity no less, and perhaps more, than the International Day of Museums itself.
USA. America is the leader in the number of strange museums.
Museum of cockroaches.
An entire museum complex in the state of Texas. It is located in the city of Plano. The fact is that the exhibits found their place in Michael Boden's store, which sells conventional insect and other pest control products. The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum has been in existence for 20 years.
Visitors to the museum complex can see both living insects and dead ones. The owner of the exhibition uses the bodies of dried cockroaches to create dioramas - he dresses them up in costumes and places them in certain themed interiors.
For example, in the museum you can see a cockroach dressed up in the style of Marilyn Monroe, as well as cockroaches surfing and playing musical instruments.
Boden keeps several hundred live cockroaches, which after death become exhibits in his museum.
The museum organizer specially breeds cockroaches, and after they natural death perpetuates by dressing in human clothing or presenting in an unusual form.
Museum of Burnt Food (California, USA)
This museum was founded by Deborah Hanson-Conant, and it was because of her failures in the kitchen that the first exhibits appeared in the museum. By the way, each item in the museum’s collection is provided with a commentary by the “author” himself or his relatives.
The stupidest and most senseless is the Museum of Burnt Food. These cupcakes, pizzas, pies and many other dishes will never make it to anyone's table. But the museum still has a moral, and it is simple: be careful when cooking and do not skimp on fire safety.
Mustard Museum - Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, USA
Founder Berry Levenson began collecting mustard in the 1980s, but the museum didn't open until 1992. The museum's collection includes more than 4,800 varieties of mustard in bottles, tubes and cans, produced in 50 states and 60 countries. The exhibition also includes a historical tour about mustard production. Mustard lovers should definitely visit the museum's unique gift shop, which sells many different types of mustard.
Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, La Crosse, Kansas
The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum opened in 1971. He tells people about the history of barbed wire, often called "The Devil's Rope." The collection now includes more than 2,000 types of barbed wire, some of the exhibits date back to the 19th century.
Burlingame Candy Museum, Burlingame, California
This year the museum celebrates its 14th anniversary. The Candy Cane Museum pays homage to traditional candy canes. The most valuable exhibit is the world's largest and most impressive vending machine, measuring almost 2.5 m. The museum houses the most large collection old vending machines, and other candy-related items. It's also worth visiting the gift shop where you can create your own piece of candy history!
Museum of the human body called Corpus, Netherlands
It is located in the Netherlands, near the university city of Leiden. The museum offers a journey inside the human body.
Unique museum represents the figure of a seated man, the 35-meter-high structure is built into a seven-story building.
The museum is very interesting and educational, the tour lasts 55 minutes, during which time the sounds of the body where the group is located are imitated. The Museum of the Human Body presents copies of human organs and simulates the processes occurring in the body.
You can get to the Museum of the Human Body through the giant's knee by going up the escalator. Inside, visitors move past internal organs, see muscles, bones, heart, kidneys, digestive organs, lungs, ears, eyes and brain.
The screens show the work of organs, their functions, and all this with sounds. It shows what happens in the body when a person receives an injury to one or another organ, how reproduction occurs.
The tour ends on the top floor in the head of the “giant man”.
The Corpus Museum of the Human Body is intended for people aged 6 years and older.
Museum medieval torture, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The museum is located on the Red Light District in Amsterdam. And this place is not for the faint of heart. The Museum of Medieval Torture lives up to its name with dark lighting and an entrance where visitors immediately begin a journey down a dark corridor. The exhibition itself, as well as a tour introducing various types of torture, is at the visitors' attention, mainly drawing the visitors' attention to medieval times. Among the instruments of torture you can find an interrogation chair, a hammer for crushing bones, a heretic's fork, different kinds hanging cages and masks, and of course, the guillotine.
The most unusual museums in Russia.
Museum of Superstitions of the Russian People.
When visiting this museum, you will meet characters familiar from childhood - Leshy, Baba Yaga, Kikimora and more than a hundred unusual and amazing creatures that existed in the fantasy world of our ancestors. Today these heroes are carved from wood and live in the “Amber Castle”, located in the Curonian Spit nature reserve in the Kaliningrad region.
Private museum of gramophones and phonographs.
This collection is housed in an ordinary city apartment; it is considered the third in the world in terms of the number of unique devices. It is worth noting that all exhibits are in working condition. Sometimes the museum hosts musical evenings, dedicated to listening to old records of the last and century before last. The museum, located in St. Petersburg, was founded by Vladimir Deryabkin, former clown, circus performer and trainer. Visits to the museum are only possible by prior arrangement.
Iron Museum.
The once former merchant's house has now become a museum, giving its shelves to irons. Here you can trace the evolution of this important item for our everyday life. The museum houses more than 200 exhibits. These are bronze, steel, cast iron, electric and alcohol-based. Each of the irons is ready to serve one purpose - ironing, creating a flawless look for clothes. The museum is located in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Mammoth Museum.
In order to visit it, you will have to go down to a depth of 20 meters, where a cave has been carved into the permafrost. It is here, in the cold, that the remains of animals that lived in Taimyr 20 thousand years ago are kept. In the museum you can see a collection of mammoth bones, their tusks, pieces of skins and bodies of these amazing and long-extinct animals. The museum itself is located in distant Yakutsk.
Mouse Museum.
This lovely museum, famous all over the world, was created by enthusiasts on a selfless basis and is famous for its homey feel. In the city of Myshkin there is a museum in which toy rodents from all over the world live - Japan, France, Germany. It contains more than five thousand exhibits, some of them are gifts famous people, and many are made by children with their own hands.
Sun Museum.
This museum is located not in the place of Indian settlement in South America, but in our Novosibirsk. The exhibition is illuminated even on bad days - after all, it contains hundreds of images of our sun, which disperse bad weather. The museum presents numerous images of solar gods, solar signs, myths and fairy tales dedicated to the sun, as well as hymns. It will be interesting to look at the products of the masters applied creativity, which will once again remind you that we are all children of the sun.
Clock Museum.
In the city of Angarsk, there has been a watch museum since 1968, based on a private collection that has been collected for more than half a century. Looking at the timekeeping objects in the ten halls, some of which date back to the 18th century, it is easy to forget about everything. Here you can see a skeleton clock and a basket clock, a clock in the form of a miniature steam locomotive, as well as cabinet, wall and carriage clocks. In total, the museum has more than a thousand exhibits.
Water Museum.
Visitors to this museum are invited to follow the complex path that a drop of water takes before getting into our apartments, and then back into reservoirs. The exhibition presents the evolution of water supply structures in Moscow, its construction, starting from ancient times. Those who are particularly interested have the opportunity to launch miniature models of Mosvodokanal equipment and structures. The museum is located in Moscow, near the Proletarskaya metro station. A similar museum, by the way, is located in St. Petersburg.
Wolf Museum.
This character is known to everyone from distant childhood, where he was a frequent guest in fairy tales. In general, in the museum, wolves appear in other forms - they are both a natural predator and a totemic symbol. Here you can find films, sculptures, toys, paintings and poems dedicated to this interesting animal. Perhaps you can change your idea of it by visiting the Tambov Museum.
Bread Museum.
In Vladivostok there is a museum that proves that an everyday food product - bread, can also be interesting subject. The history of bread baking spans centuries, and this is what the exhibition tries to tell about, which tells about baking mechanisms, demonstrates barn books, as well as rare photographs and personal belongings of bakers of old. It is curious that one of the halls has been turned into a hundred-year-old pastry shop. However, go to Far East not necessarily, there is a similar museum in St. Petersburg.
Museum of Cribs, Novosibirsk (Russia)
Absolutely everyone will like this museum in Novosibirsk - who hasn’t written a test at least once in their life or taken a test, relying on their cheat sheets? Of course, many were guilty of this. In the Novosibirsk museum you can learn about the most sophisticated ways of hiding cheat sheets.
Among the more than two hundred exhibits, there are some very interesting options: crib sheets in the form of women’s earrings, crib sheets inside a small “leaky” pack of juice, crib sheets on a hairband. In the age of modern technology, all these discoveries already seem outdated, because today, in most cases, everything you need is downloaded to a smartphone.
Butterfly Museum in St. Petersburg
This is an unusual museum in which the exhibits are never in their place... They are in constant motion, do what they want, often sit on visitors, and visitors are delighted with it! You enter the museum and find yourself in a real tropical paradise. It maintains a tropical climate: temperature + 28 degrees and humidity - 70%. And the inhabitants of the museum are living huge tropical butterflies. In nature, these tropical beauties would never have met, because butterflies live on different continents: Africa, America, Australia and Asia. The collections are updated weekly, and by visiting the museum every other week, you can catch other species of amazingly beautiful fluttering creatures!
Museum New Year's toys, G. Veliky Ustyug(homeland of Father Frost)
The New Year's Toy Museum, as expected, is located in Veliky Ustyug. As you may have guessed, the exhibits are Christmas decorations from the 1930s–2000s, which are placed on artificial Christmas trees. It is interesting that the spruce trees are not inferior in age to their decorations. The theme of the toys reflects the entire history of the country's development. For example, exhibits from the 30s are made of glass, cotton wool and paper, since until 1935 there was no production in the country Christmas decorations. Since the forties, toys made of bottle glass have appeared: Kremlin stars, orderly dogs and pistols. Toys of the 60s: corn cobs and astronauts - guess why. Each visitor can give the museum his own Christmas tree decoration.
Museums in other countries of the world
Mushroom Museum (Loire Valley, France)
This museum is worth a visit for all mushroom lovers. It was built in the form of a labyrinth of several man-made caves. Here you can learn about the ancient and modern technologies growing mushrooms, and see more than 500 varieties.
Paris Sewerage Museum, Paris, France
Located beneath the streets of Paris, this museum showcases the long history of public sewerage, dating back to Paris's first sewer system in the 13th century. The museum's tunnels run parallel to the Seine. Visitors have the opportunity to see one of the oldest sewer mains serving the city. The exhibit includes equipment for maintaining sewer networks, uniforms for workers servicing the system, and devices for cleaning lines. It is also necessary to take into account that the toilets are connected to an existing sewer system!
Hair Museum - Avanos, Türkiye
The Hair Museum displays over 16,000 hair samples different people. The owner of the museum is the famous Turkish potter Galip Koruktsu. And the museum itself is also unique because it is located underground. Koruktsu is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the largest hair collection. Museum visitors have the opportunity to add to the collection by donating their own hair. The museum opened in 1979, becoming an international phenomenon.
Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria, England
The museum is located on the first floors of a pencil factory. Visitors walk through exact copy graphite mine. A tour of the museum gives visitors the opportunity to learn about the history of pencils, explaining how they were made in the beginning. Also worth visiting are the drawing areas, where children can create their own masterpieces. It is important to check in advance when there are visual demonstrations where parents and children can receive expert advice. The museum also houses the most long pencil in a world that is also worth seeing.
Tirana Kamikaze Museum, Japan, Minamikyushu City
There is a kamikaze museum in Japan. It was opened in 1975. The museum was opened on the site of a former Japanese Air Force air base. All museum exhibits are dedicated to Japanese kamikaze pilots who gave their lives for the prosperity of their homeland during the Second World War.
The first director of this museum was also a kamikaze pilot. His name was Tadamasa Itatsu. By the will of fate, he remained alive, since all the flights he made were unsuccessful.
The museum contains great amount things and documents that were left behind by soldiers participating in the Battle of Okinawa. This is 1036 last letters pilots, and various photographs. In addition, the museum contains 4 models of aircraft that were used in the attacks. The museum displays a Mitsubishi A6M Zero aircraft in excellent condition, which was recovered from the bottom of the sea in 1980. Also in the museum you can watch a short video about the pilots.
Japanese Snowflake Museum, Hokkaido Island
This is the only museum in the world this kind, so it is doubly interesting. A snowflake is a substance that is 95% air. The founder of the snowflake museum is Nakaya Ukichiro, a scientist whose name the museum bears. For a very long time, scientists could neither photograph a snowflake nor examine it under a microscope. Now that the last word It remains up to science, you can take very high-quality photos. Therefore, in the snowflake museum you will find a huge number of photographs of snowflakes that will delight you. The museum's exhibition is very diverse. It is convenient to view the exhibits while walking along the spiral staircase. The museum itself is located in snow caves, which, over a short period, led to beautiful view. The museum feels a little chilly, but that’s how it should be, because you’re in a museum of snowflakes!
All snowflakes have a hexagonal shape, without exception. But the most important thing is not this, but the fact that not a single snowflake repeats another.
Spy Museum in Finland, Tampere
Original museum espionage is located in Finland in the city of Tampere. The museum was opened in 1988. It’s funny that the bus number “7”, which goes to the museum, was renamed “007” on the opening day, as the owner of the espionage museum, Teppo Turya, wanted to do.
Here you can touch, use and conduct experiments on yourself. You will find a lie detector, various devices for changing your voice, and a lot of other interesting things. Anyone who enjoys espionage will be asked to take an aptitude test to become a spy.
After entering the museum, along with the ticket, guests are given a card with tasks. Everyone enjoys completing these tasks. Someone is looking for a secret door, and someone is breaking into a safe.
So the museum presents the following departments: “Undercover Agents”, “Female Spies”, “Ninja”, “Spy Weapons”. There is a special department that is dedicated exclusively to Russian spies, and their biography can be read in Russian. At the exit from the museum, everyone can visit the spy shop and buy some interesting thing as a souvenir: a pen with invisible ink or a compass, and much more.
Police Museum in Tampere, Finland
The Police Museum in Finland was opened in 2008.
Here you can see about one thousand artistic and documentaries, 60 thousand photographs, as well as 66 thousand items that are related to the work of the Finnish police. The museum deals not only exhibition activities, but also research work, which aims to continually improve police performance. The museum constantly operates a Children's Police Station, where the younger generation can learn a lot of new things for themselves, as well as find themselves “behind bars,” or feel like a real law enforcement officer. this one good life lesson, which everyone must learn so as not to commit any atrocities in the future.
Munchausen Museum, Latvia, Vidzeme coast
The Munchausen Museum is one of the most visited in Latvia, in the city of Dunte. There are only two Munchausen museums in the world: one in Germany, in Bodenwerder, the second in Latvia.
In the exhibition you can see materials about Munchausen’s life in the Dunte estate (Vizdem coast), as well as household items from the 18th century.
Six most bright years The baron, together with his wife Jacobina, spent his life in the Dunte estate. For several centuries, local residents have not stopped telling stories about Munchausen.
In the room of Munchausen's wife Jacobina you will see paradise a real lady of the 18th century, and Baron Munchausen will greet you with freshly caught game - a string of ducks killed with one shot.
3 best museum in Russia:
1. State Museum-Reserve"Peterhof".
Peterhof (Dutch Peterhof, “Peter's courtyard”) is a palace and park ensemble on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, 29 km from St. Petersburg. Located on the territory of the city of Peterhof (from 1944 to 1997 - Petrodvorets).
In 1712, construction began on a country imperial residence for Peter I. In 1714, the foundations of the Grand Palace were laid.
In 1715, Emperor Peter I decided to create a ceremonial imperial residence.
Peterhof includes several palace and park ensembles that were formed over two centuries. The Lower Park, the Upper Garden and the English Park are ensembles that developed in the 18th century; Alexandria, Kolonistsky Park, Meadow Park, Alexander Park, Sergievka, Own Dacha - ensembles of the 19th century.
2. Hermitage
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is the largest in Russia and one of the largest art and cultural-historical museums in the world, a federal state state-financed organization culture and museums.
The Hermitage arose in 1764 as the private collection of Catherine II, after 225 valuable paintings were transferred to her from Berlin.
The museum begins its history with collections of works of art that Russian Empress Catherine II began to acquire privately. Initially, this collection was housed in a special palace wing - the Small Hermitage (from the French ermitage - place of solitude, cell, hermitage, retreat), from which the general name of the future museum was fixed.
In 1852, from the greatly expanded collection, the Imperial Museum was formed and opened to the public.
Modern State Hermitage Museum is a complex museum complex. Main exposition part The museum occupies five buildings located along the Neva River embankment in the center of St. Petersburg, the main one of which is considered to be the Winter Palace.
Today, the museum's collection includes about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the Stone Age to the present century.
The Hermitage is famous for its paintings: “ Madonna Benoit"or another name "Madonna with a Flower" by Leonardo da Vinci and another painting "Madonna Litta", as well as no less famous picture"Return prodigal son"Rembrandt and many others.
3. Tretyakov Gallery
State Tretyakov Gallery (STG) (also known as Tretyakov Gallery) - Art Museum in Moscow, founded in 1856 by merchant Pavel Tretyakov and having one of the largest collections of Russian fine art in the world.
The idea of collecting his own painting collection came to Pavel Tretyakov after visiting the St. Petersburg Hermitage at the age of 20.
Pavel Tretyakov began collecting his painting collection in the mid-1850s. Year of foundation Tretyakov Gallery It is generally accepted that May 22, 1856 is the day when Pavel Tretyakov acquired two paintings by Russian artists: “Temptation” by N. G. Schilder and “Skirmish with Finnish Smugglers” by V. G. Khudyakov. In 1867, the Moscow City Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Tretyakov was opened to the general public in Zamoskvorechye.
Her collection consisted of 1276 paintings, 471 drawings and 10 sculptures by Russian artists, as well as 84 paintings by foreign masters.
The gallery was opened for public viewing in 1881, and in 1892, after the death of his brother Sergei, Tretyakov donated it to Moscow.
In August 1892, Pavel Mikhailovich transferred his art gallery as a gift to the city of Moscow. By this time, the collection included 1,287 paintings and 518 graphic works of the Russian school, 75 paintings and 8 drawings of the European school, 15 sculptures and a collection of icons. On August 15, 1893, the official opening of the museum took place under the name “Moscow City Gallery of Pavel and Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov.”
The gallery has a rich collection ancient Russian painting XI-XVII centuries, created mainly in Soviet times, including “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev, works by Dionysius, Simon Ushakov. More than 60 icons were bequeathed to the Tretyakov Gallery, but the most mysterious of them is Vladimir icon Mother of God.
During the Great Patriotic War The collection of the Tretyakov Gallery was evacuated to Novosibirsk: the exhibits occupied 17 carriages.
The most visited museum in the world - Louvre (Paris, France)
1. The Louvre Museum in Paris is the largest, oldest and most famous museum in the capital
2. Originally built as a military fortress in the 13th century, the Louvre was royal palace King Philip II Augustus of France for several years during the 16th century before becoming a museum in 1793.
3. The Louvre is a building consisting of four parts.
4. The heart of the Louvre is the well-known glass pyramid.
5. The Louvre contains some of the most famous works art in the history of human civilization. The paintings housed in the Louvre have been collected by the French government for the last 500 years. Perhaps the best collections of Islamic, Greek and Assyrian cultures in the world are kept in the Louvre.
6. It is impossible to visit the Louvre in one day.
7. The Louvre was designed as a place for the drawings and paintings of King Henry VI.
8. the most valuable exhibit The Louvre is the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa.
9. In 1793, the Louvre was opened as a public museum.
10 . The Louvre has undergone several architectural metamorphoses during its life. Built on the western outskirts of the city, the original fortress structure gradually became the center of Paris. The dark fortress first became the modest home of King Francis I, and then became the luxurious palace of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
