Museums of Tyumen - acquaintance with the culture of the city

In Tyumen there are museums of various subjects. Here, visitors and locals can get acquainted with the history of the city, with the main events that took place in the severe Siberian region. It is worth noting that museums in Tyumen for children offer a lot of interesting things. Here, not only accustom to cultural development and acquaint with the historical heritage of the city, but also conduct master classes for the younger generation. There are also such institutions where it is told about what this region currently lives in. Guests of the city are advised to visit the museums of Tyumen. List of these organizations, it is worth noting, rather big. There are more than 30 different museums in the city. In this article I would like to acquaint you with the most popular.

Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts

In the historic building in the city center is the Museum of Fine Arts. There are collected items telling about the history of this region, folk handicrafts and the works of West Siberian artists. Exhibits will be of interest to a different category of visitors. Parents often visit museums in Tyumen with children. It is especially interesting for babies to consider different unique products and works of famous masters.

The Museum of Fine Arts has permanent exhibits:

• "White Tale" - the exposition is devoted to the art of carving on the bone.
• "Rhythms of the city" - an exhibition that presents works of artists of the last century. Landscapes of the city, its sights, portraits and sculptures, also related to Tyumen.
• "Good hand skills" - household items from porcelain, ceramics, glass, telling about the daily needs of the inhabitants of the region.

Museum "House of Masharov"

The museums of Tyumen not only introduce the crafts of past centuries, but also tell about famous people who made a great contribution to the development of the Siberian region. One such is the Masharov House. The mansion, which was built at the end of the XIX century, vividly displays the features of neoclassicism. Here lived Nikolai Dmitrievich Masharov - merchant, industrialist, who founded the first iron foundries in Tyumen. The merchant house was awarded the title of a monument of architecture of federal significance. Various temporary compositions are arranged here, and among the permanent ones there is an exposition telling about the life of the famous inhabitant of the city, about her way of life. All the items from the exhibition belonged to this family earlier. Visitors will be able to plunge into the era of merchant days, see how relationships developed in the family, how the upbringing of children took place, based on the principles of respect for the elders and for the fatherland.

Museum of Medicine

This museum presents an interesting exposition of the history of medicine development in Tobolsk province and Tyumen region from the beginning of its formation to modern technologies. There are departments dedicated to researchers, scientists, without which the development of medicine today would not have been possible. Of course, such museums in Tyumen are mostly visited by adults and teenagers. For the latter, they give lectures.

The museum is located at the base of Tyumen State Medical Academy. It also tells the history of the university. Here are collected personal items of the best graduates, monographs, rare archival documents.

Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas

There are also such museums in Tyumen, which tell about the main minerals of the region, ways of their extraction. As is known, in the north of Russia there is a constant extraction of gas and oil. They are the main components of the country's economy. If you visit the Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas, you can see how this industry developed. It will be interesting here first of all for a specialist, but a simple visitor who at least once wondered about the process of extraction of black gold in the bowels of the earth will receive a lot of vivid impressions. A lot of video from the northern parts of the region. The chronology and evolution of the methods of geological research and methods of extraction of raw materials are described. In the north, geologists had to deal with local peoples, so the museum has a section devoted to everyday life, culture of Khanty, Mansi and Nenets. You can see their homes, national clothes.