The Perm Museum of Regional Studies (the Museum, for short) is the largest and most visited museum in Perm region. For over a hundred years, the staff of the Museum has carefully and intently collected, studied and presented the natural, historical and cultural heritage of the region.
The Museum has a wide collection of historical and cultural monuments that greatly surpass the regional level in their historical and scientific importance. The museum collection amounts over 600,000 stock items.
The Museum holdings are based on unique scientific collections of monuments of culture and natural history owned by famous local scientists and artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The following collections are especially popular:
– collection of Perm animal style;
– palaeontological collection by G. Mauer;
– herbarium of local flora by P. Suzev, A. Teploukhov, and F. Teploukhov;
– ethnographic collection of Old Belief items;
– collection of black-letter and manuscript books dated back to the 16th and 17th centuries;
– glass negative images on ethnography, the history of Ural factories, and architecture of the Kama River area of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
– collection of paintings by bond artists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The extended and comprehensive collections of Perm Museum of Regional Studies created by several generations of scientists, local historians, and museum personnel are still being replenished. They reflect the specific character and distinctive features of the Kama River area and very valuable being a part of the culture and history of the whole country.
The Kladovka Art Gallery was opened to the public on 25th December 2007.
In Nizhny Novgorod, this is one of the very few places that are fully dedicated to art. The Gallery hosts exhibitions as well as master classes of artists and designers. It also sells different objects for interior decoration and collectable works of art....