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Gorokhovets History-Architectural Museum


Address: 601460, Vladimir region,

Working hours:* Warning:
preodered group visits only

Internet:
    www.russianmuseums.info/M564 - official web page

    E-Mail:


billboard, events and excursions



Description:
    The Museum was founded as a people's museum in 1972. Nowadays the Museum occupies two buildings - architectural monuments of the 17-18th centuries.

    The house of the merchant Sapozchnikov is a building of civil old Russian architecture of pre-Peter times. It includes interiors of merchant mode of life: the Red Chamber, the rooms of the master and the mistress, the passage, the smart covered parch. There is the exibition "Russian Samovars" on the ground floor of the house.

    The second floor is devoted to trade of native population: woodcarving, gorokhovets carpenters' toys (carvedwooden toys), embroidery, knitting, boiler-making. The expositions of the house of Sapozshnikov show peculiarity of a provincial Russian town, it's character, traditions, estate features and tempers from the 17th till the begining of the 20th century.



Museum's services:
   museum shop

Next to the museum there are:
    hotels and restaurants


for museum professionals

Administrative phone:
    (49238) 2-2009 2-1009



Foundation and opening day:
    founded: 24.12.1972
    opened: 28.06.1981

Organisation status:
   Municipal

Organization form:
   non-for-profit

Organisation type:
    culture for society

Classification:
    Architect and monuments,Historical,Regional museum


Squares:
    permament show rooms 1043ì2
    museum's store 72ì2
    museum's parks 0,5ãà

Employee number:
    15 (curators: 3)

Average visitors per year:
    îêîëî 11000


Specific departments:
    archive

Collections volume:
    12704, rare collection's items: 10914




Web sites and CD-disks:
    above






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Copyright (c) 1996-2003  Russian Cultural Heritage Network