About museum preserve

The house in which the museum "junk shop" is located, was built in 1851. In the second half of the nineteenth century. for just over 30 years, on the ground floor of this house was a small shop, which was called "junk shop". The shop existed until about the beginning of the 1890s, In 1982, the building was reconstructed, and in 2002 there was opened a Museum. The Museum presents original exhibits - witnesses of Simbirsk trade of the nineteenth century. The exposition of the museum is a small ethnographic area, which allows visitors to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of a private shop. In an old shop there is a long counter with the counter, scales, on the floor there are hoppers with flour, on the shelves - a variety of goods (candies, sugar loaf, glassware, colonial goods - tea, coffee, tobacco, kerosene lamps, candles, matches, soap, stationery, hardware goods, needlework).