Amurskiy Oblastnoy Krayevedcheskiy Museum, Blagoveshchensk, Amurskaya oblast, Russia
Amur regional museum of local lore. G.S. Novikova-Daursky – one of the oldest in the Far East – was founded on August 16 (28), 1891, on the initiative of the Annunciation City Council. Its opening was preceded by an exhibition organized by gold miners in honor of the arrival of Tsarevich Nicholas, the future emperor Nicholas II, in Blagoveshchensk.
Formation and development of the museum is associated with the names of people known in the region, among them A.V. Kirillov is a teacher of the Blagoveshchensk male gymnasium, the author of the first geographical dictionary of the region, A.Ya. Gurov is a teacher, the first Amur archaeologist, V.M. Popov is a natural scientist who compiled the first museum routes in Blagoveshchensk. In 1993, the museum issued a decree of the Administration of the Amur Region No. 69 dated 03.03.1993, giving the name of a well-known local historian, the author of numerous scientific works of G.S. Novikov-Daursky, who worked here for 34 years
Since 2010, the branch of the museum is the Albazinsky Local History Museum (village Albazino, Skovorodinsky district, Amur Region).
The Amur regional museum of local lore is located in one of the most beautiful old buildings of Blagoveshchensk (an object of cultural heritage of federal significance), where in the late XIX – early XX centuries. the shop of the German company Kunst and Albers was located.
In the museum funds are stored over 160 thousand items by nature, history and culture of the Amur region. The largest museum collections: numismatic (coins) – more than 8000 museum items, archaeological – about 9000, natural science – more than 8000, ethnographic – about 4000. The photo library has over 15000 items of storage, the documentary fund – more than 30000. Many museums items are unique: the costumes and attributes of the Daurian and Evenki shamans (late 19th century), the music box (Germany, the 19th c.), the Ust-Nyukha meteorite (n. XX century), the bones of fossil animals, etc.
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