Museum of Chartreuse Factory, the Chartreuse Cellars (Voiron)

Defense of Brest Fortress Museum Belarus · Brest

The Museum of the Defense of Brest Fortress was opened on 8 November 1956, in the surviving part of the defensive barrack in the central fortification of the Fortress, the Citadel. Captain A. A. Krupennikov was appointed to manage the Museum. The Museum was based on an earlier museum room that was opened on 23 February 1956 on the ground floor o...

Mamayeva Sloboda Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev

In the mid-17th century, the French cartographic and engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan said: "Ukraine is the land of the Cossacks." This is why it was decided to create the Mamayeva Sloboda Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (the Museum, for short); the Museum is a reconstructed thematic arboretum, a model of the 17th and 18th century Cos...

Historical Museum of Dnepropetrovsk, Historical Museum named after D. I. Yavornytsky Dnieper River · Ukraine · Dnepropetrovsk

The Public Museum of Yekaterinoslav Governorate was founded in February of 1849, in Yekaterinoslav (the contemporary name of Dnepropetrovsk), at the initiative of Yakov Grakhov, the director of a local gymnasium, and with the support of the governor A. Fabr; it was the first museum in the region, and it was situated in the Potyomkin Palace, which b...