Central Museum of Tauris: photo, reviews

The Central Museum of Tavrida (WTC) gives its visitors an opportunity to learn about the Crimea practically everything. The museum will acquaint you with the history, nature and culture of the peninsula. Today it is the largest museum dedicated to the Crimea.

Tavrida

Tavrida or Tavria is the name given to the Crimean peninsula after its annexation to the Russian Empire in 1783. Since 1784, Tavrida was part of the Tauride province. This name comes from the name of the tribes that inhabited the peninsula in ancient times - the Taurians. Tauris was also called the northern coast of the Black and Azov Seas. After the eighteenth century the peninsula began to be called Crimea.

The peninsula has attracted various peoples and tribes since ancient times. This was promoted by a favorable climate, which allows us to collect abundant crops, a rich animal and plant world. The extraction of iron ore on the peninsula made it possible to develop metallurgical and mining industries. In different periods of time there lived more than a dozen peoples, from the Taurians to the Mongols.

Every people living in the Taurian lands contributed to the cultural heritage of the Crimea peninsula. The Central Museum of Tauris gathered in its walls the exhibits of each era, which helps visitors to learn more about the history of the Crimea.

Creating a museum

The foundation day of the museum is May 8, 1921. Then he received the name "Central Museum of Tauris". The new museum united two large museums existing in Simferopol:

1. Archaeological Museum. The date of its foundation - 1887, it was located in the building of the Provincial Zemstvo. It was he who formed the basis for the creation of a modern museum. He joined the new museum in 1921.
2. The Natural History Museum, founded in 1899. The entomological collection of S. A. Morzhetsky, who was at that time a provincial entomologist, was the basis of his exposition. He joined the Tavrida Museum in 1922.

The Central Museum of Tauris was founded on the initiative of the Committee for Museum Affairs and the Protection of Art, Antiquities and Nature. In 1923 the museum included three expositions: art, ethnography and archeology. Replenishment of the collection was actively promoted by the order of the authorities to transfer to the museum's department of cultural objects from the Cheka's storage and nationalization of the palaces and estates of the Crimea.

History of the museum to this day

For its centuries-old history, the Central Museum of Tauris moved several times. The question of the location of the museum remained open for many years. Initially, he was in a building along Gorky Street (formerly - Dvoryanskaya Street). Later the museum moved to the building along Karl Liebknecht Street (at that time - Dolgorukovskaya Street). The exposition of the natural-historical department continued to be located in the building of the Provincial Zemstvo, which at that time had already been disbanded. However, the premises in the building were tight and eventually became incapable of accommodating the ever-increasing collection of the museum.

In 1927 for the location of the expositions was transferred to the building of the former orphanage of the Countess Adlerberg. Only in 1988 the museum gained its permanent location. The address where the Central Museum of Tavrida is located is Simferopol, Gogol Street, house 14. The museum also includes the Alushta local history museum, the Selvinsky museum house museum and the "Red Concentration Camp" memorial complex.

Branches of the museum

The museum in Alushta was opened in 1923 on the initiative of the Russian Society for the Study of the Crimea. The museum is located in the building of the old dacha PI. Makhlis "Modern". The building is an architectural monument of the early twentieth century.

The collection of the museum has about nine thousand exhibits. Most of them are devoted to the history and cultural heritage of the city of Alushta. Of particular interest is the archaeological exposition, which collected exhibits from various eras of the peninsula, from the tools of the Meso-Neolithic era to objects found in ancient Partenit and the fortress of Aluston.

Museum of the poet Ilya Selvinsky is located in the center of Simferopol, in the house where the poet was born and lived. The museum was established in 1989 and is the department of ITC. In addition to the exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the poet, the museum contains some canvases of the poet's daughter Tatiana Sevilskaya.

Library

The Central Museum of Tauris includes a huge library. The scientific library "Tavrika", working as a branch of the museum, is of special historical and cultural value. The library was founded in 1873 by A.Kh. Steven, whose name she wears since 1894. The library includes publications that originally belonged to the Tauride Zemstvos, a natural history museum. Also in the library fund is part of the collection of books by Nicholas II.

The foundation of the library is mostly devoted to information about the Crimean peninsula. The collection is about fifty thousand books in different languages and different eras. The oldest exhibits date back to the eleventh century. The collection also includes filing of newspapers, engravings, maps of the peninsula.

Exposition of the Museum of Tauris

Expositions of the museum consist of more than one hundred thousand copies and occupy three floors of the museum building. This is the largest collection of exhibits about the past and present of the Crimea. The museum often takes part in various exhibitions and festivals, both in Russia and abroad.

A special place in the collection is Lapidarium, located in the courtyard of the building. The exposition includes fragments of ancient altars and tombstones, a unique plate-anthropomorph and "Idol Verhorechye".

Flora and fauna of Crimea are devoted to the exposition "Protected landscapes" and "Nature". The latter contains exhibits that are more than a million years old. Separate exhibitions tell about the most important periods of the history of the peninsula, such as the Russian-Turkish war, the Great Patriotic War, the period of the ancient Crimea.

A cinema hall, styled under the sanitary tent of the war years, opened for visitors the Central Museum of Tauris. Photos, newsreels, video materials of the war years became possible to study on the big screen. In the "Golden pantry" of the museum are collected exhibits of precious stones and metals, dating back to the second century BC.

Reviews about the museum

Eight permanent exhibitions on the history and nature of the Crimea include the Central Museum of Tauris. The feedback of visitors about each of these exposures is positive. In addition to the museum's rich collection, visitors appreciate the atmosphere of silence and comfort reigning there. They also note that it is easy to get to the museum both on personal and public transport.

Internet resources dedicated to the museum are constantly updated with enthusiastic reviews about the uniqueness of the exhibits presented in the museum and gratitude for the opportunity to learn more about the history, culture and nature of the Crimea.