About museum preserve

The life of a Russian provincial town of the late XIX - early XX centuries left in the distant past, the way of life has changed, habits are forgotten, the meaning of the customs is lost. It is difficult to fold from the remaining fragments of the past the whole way of life of the citizens. This problem the museum of the city life, where a long life with family traditions and customs as if slowed. tries to solve.

The Museum is housed in one wing of the former estate of the priest of Simbirsk Trinity Cathedral I.A. Anaksagorov and reproduces a typical residential building of a citizen of the middle class. The exhibition presents a collection of Russian porcelain, lighting fixtures and furniture.

According to the reviews of the visitors this museum is often called the "family Museum", as the study of family celebrations, ceremonies, wedding traditions in the Museum of the city life has already become accustomed to the residents of our city.

In 2013, the Museum realized the project "a few ways to feel the time" as the first experience of introducing a modern sound and lighting equipment with software running in a memorial exhibition. The objective of this project is to intensify the feelings and emotions of people. After all, according to the concept of surface perception, the more senses are involved in the perception of a thing, the more complete view he gets about it.

Directed, constantly changing light, the voices of the former owners, the sounds of piano, creaking floorboards, the crackling in the stove, clattering dishes lead visitors through the rooms of the old house. It is particularly important that the project implementation will allow citizens and visitors to get acquainted with the exposition of the museum, without compromising the authenticity of the dim light of the house, typical for the late XIX - early XX century. Another technical novelty which will attract the attention of visitors of the museum is an old phone. Everyone who will raise up its tube, can inquire about the "last" secular news of Simbirsk. And the new exhibition hall of the museum recreates the atmosphere of the Cabinet of the "collector" of the late XIX - early XX centuries