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History of the Museum

1. The Main Steps of the Museum Activity
  • documents
  • chronicle
    •  2.History of the scientific research
  • personalities
  • memoirs
  • restoration
    •  3.History of the educational activity

    Scientific Research
  • conferences and seminars
  • participation in the exhibitions
  • scientific works, articles
  • editions
  • restoration
  • expeditions:
    •  -- archaeological
    -- collecting monuments of culture and history

    The educational activity
  • celebrations
  • excursion
  • participation in festivals, competitions, exhibitions
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    Rus Eng

    The Main Steps of the Museum Activity (page 6)


    1950s. The meeting of the Method Council. T.V. Nikolayeva (from her back.), Belobrova O.A., Bagayeva I.I., Kruglova O.V., Baikova I.N., (Head of the Department of the Scientific Propaganda), Bureichenko I.I., Kurova T.N., Prasolova N.M., Mayasova N.A., Kalmykova L.E., Svirin A.N. The research workers Yu.A.Lebedeva, N.A. Mayasova, T.V. Nikolayeva, I.I. Bureichenko, O.A. Belobrova, O.N. Esipova, O.V. Kruglova, L.E. Kalmykova, T.N. Kedrova, E.N. Klitina, L.N. Boikova, who came in 1940s – 1950s, made a considerable contribution in the study of the collections. They resumed publication of the scientific edition titled “Soobshchenia Zagorskogo gosudarstvennogo istorico-khudozhestvennogo muzeya-zapovednika” (“The Works of the Zagorsk State History and Art Museum-Reserve”), and catalogues. The first catalogue was “Proizvedeniya melkoi plastiki v sobraniyi muzeya” (“Small-Size Sculptures in the Museum Collection” by T.V. Nikolayeva (Zagorsk, 1960).

    1950s.Kruglova O.V. (sitting), Kalmykova L.E. during the expedition to the Russian North. Alongside with the study of the ancient collections they began to investigate folk and contemporary applied art, presented only by the occasional separated groups of items. The investigation was carried out mainly by the annual expeditions, organized since 1953 in the different centers of Russian folk art.

    Kruglova O.V. – the expedition to the Archangel Region, Toyemsky district, Nizhnaya Toima Village. The expeditions worked in 20 regions. Archangel, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kalinin, Moscow and Penza Regions have been thoroughly investigated .Due to the efforts of several generations of specialists the Museum possesses one of the best collections of folk art in our country. The traditions of the scientific approach to the formation of the collections are still carefully preserved in the Museum.

    1963. Classes for the center of decorative art. Manushina T.N. (in the middle), Kalmykova L.E. - on the right.

    The collections of contemporary applied and decorative art were actively enlarged. The Museum kept contacts with the creative workers of the artistic enterprises. Every year there were organized exhibitions presenting various kinds of contemporary applied and decorative art. In 1965 – 1966, about 60 large enterprises of artistic industry provided items of glass, cut glass, porcelain, faience, fabrics, etc.

    Kruglova O.V., Manushina T.N. (in the center) at the opening of the exhibition.

    The large-scale collecting activity of the Museum included the regular survey of the earthwork and building on the territory of the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. It resulted in discovery of numerous white tomb stones which helped to reconstruct the ancient Monastery Necropolis.


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