Excursion program "Classic"
You will visit the Volga Embankment, the Victory Memorial, the estate of the millionaire merchant T.V. Chistov, and also visit:
- the world's only "Mouse Museum", which contains a 13 thousandth collection of toy mice-gifts to our city;
- the museum of the "Capital of Pilots" (historical and household museum). Learn about the famous pilotage that made the city and its people famous.;
- the museum of peasant architecture of small forms, which contains excellent examples of carpentry art.
- the museum of unique technology "Myshkinsky Samohod". The museum has a rich collection of agricultural machinery and agricultural aggregates, as well as equipment from the front years.
- the Russian Felt Boots Museum, where you will not only get acquainted with the secrets of making the warmest shoes in the world, but also see interesting exhibits.
- the museum of "living" crafts, where pottery and blacksmithing masters are waiting for you to demonstrate their art.
To find out the cost and make an appointment, please call 8 (909) – 281-22-47
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1. Museum of the Capital of Pilots
Have you ever been to the world of the old county town? Really not?! Then by all means visit our local history museum.You will learn EVERYTHING about the glorious city of Myshkin in this museum. This museum is about the famous pilotage! He made the Myshkars famous throughout the upper Volga as the best experts on river expanses, able to overcome any sandbanks and the most difficult stone ridges. About merchants and nobles – noble creators and donors. About Myshkin's inimitable potters and carvers, peasant painters. You will touch the past, living in things, the faithful companions of the mice in the XVII-XX century who lived in the Stone Age, and in the Middle Ages, in the era of the Terrible Ivan Vasilyevich, and in the golden nineteenth century, and in the merciless twentieth.
They will have a silent but intelligent conversation with you: the desk of N. A. Nekrasov, books by the historian and bibliophile F. K. Opochinin, objects that remember the invincible naval commander F. F. Ushakov. Banners and empty shell casings from the Soviet hard years will look at you. And the scattering of antique buttons, commodity seals and keys will tell about the details of bygone eras.
2. Mouse Museum
The only Mouse Museum in the world invites its guests to visit the "mouse kingdom-state".The patron saint of our city, a brave and wise Mouse, rules here. There you will learn the famous legend of the Mouse that gave the name to the city, get acquainted with mice from ALL OVER the world (France, England, Germany, USA, India, Singapore, Japan, etc.), with mice-gifts from great people. You will also visit the office of the mouse king, and see the diploma of the Russian book of records "Divo" (an analogue of the Guinness Book of Records), confirming that our museum is the only one in the world! The keepers of the mouse heritage will tell you about cartoon mice, book-loving mice, romantic mice and travelers who responded to our call "Mice of all countries, unite in Myshkin!" and joined the banner of the mouse kingdom.
3. Museum of Small Forms of Peasant Architecture
The museum contains excellent examples of carpentry and small-scale peasant architecture.The museum contains excellent examples of carpentry and small-scale peasant architecture.
You will touch the rough logs, remembering the warmth of the hands of the carpenters who cut down the Old Believers' barn or the St. George's Chapel, which we transported from the place of death of Prince Yuri Vladimirsky on the Sit River, hear the creak of the weather vane on the windmill, or just sit on the steps of the bakers' house or look into Bobyl's house.
Here you will also meet with the crafts of the distant past: cooperage, oil-milling, weaving and carving, and with the living crafts – weaving, blacksmithing, turning. You will visit the house of a petty–bourgeois artisan, and visit the hut of a weaver to see how she works in a 19th-century mill.
4. Museum of Retro technology "Myshkinsky Samohod"
The Museum of unique technology "Myshkinsky Samohod" is a rich collection of agricultural machinery and agricultural aggregates.The Museum of unique technology "Myshkinsky Samohod" is a rich collection of agricultural machinery and agricultural aggregates. Trucks, cars, and motorcycles began to be assembled long ago in the 70s by various enthusiastic "garage local historians."
The first was a front-line driver who went through the bullets of the entire war until victory, Nikolai Ivanovich Osokin, it was thanks to him and his golden hands that the ZIS-5 front-line road worker and the GAZ-AA pre-war truck appeared in the museum in 1938. The museum made its first museum expeditions on these machines. The museum began to house a variety of equipment – even riverboats! A steam locomotive, an aircraft turbine, lemonade and sausage machines of the 19th century appeared.
5. The Russian Felt Boots Museum
Myshkin boots were made only from the wool of Romanov sheep, and not from mouse wool at all.
In the museum you will follow the process of making felt boots, learn about how the great Russian sovereigns treated them. They will reveal the secrets of the healing properties of felt boots, tell you about ancient fortune-telling and traditions. Here you will see felt boots that have been transformed by talented craftsmen from ordinary industrial "Cinderellas" into "fairy princesses", as well as get acquainted with the "sisters and brothers of felt boots" and see various samples of antique shoes: shoes, boots, boots of yesteryear. In the museum, you can also stock up on fashionable handmade shoes for the winter season, because classics are always in fashion!
6. Estate of the merchant T.V. Chistov
Timofey Vasilyevich Chistov's estate was built in the middle of the 19th century and belonged to a merchant of the First Guild, who was engaged in the wholesale grain trade.The estate complex includes the main stone mansion with a mezzanine, a wooden wing, outbuildings, a chapel, and a mill. The main building now houses the Opochininsky Library, which was opened in 1875 and is the oldest zemstvo library in Yaroslavl Province. The buildings of the estate complex include the museum "Russian Valenki", the ethnographic exposition "Flax", the miller's house, the expositions "Barn Mice", "Merchant shops" and "Tree of Life".
7. Victory Memorial
Memorial complex dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.The memorial complex dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was built in 2005. Architect Oleg Medvedev, sculptor Sergey Skala.
The center of the exhibition is the figure of a bronze soldier. In front of the sculpture on a pedestal is a five–pointed star and an Eternal Flame. The memorial reveals the theme of the unity of the front and rear. Lines of authentic letters from one of the Myshkin families are immortalized on granite slabs. The Victory Memorial is the great pride of a small town!
8. Volzhskaya embankment
In the central part of the Volga embankment, near the Victory Memorial, there is a rotunda, which preserves the unique aura of the city. In order to feel it, stand in the center of the rotunda and heartily shout "Myshkin is the best" and you will feel how the love of the city's residents will fill you with unique emotions.
From the upper tier of the embankment there is a view of the great Volga River and the confluence of the Yukhot River with it.
Walking along the lower tier, you can reach the path of Vladimir Grechukhin, a man who loved Myshkin all his life.
9. Museum of "Living" Crafts
The museum will tell about blacksmithing and potteryThe museum of "living" crafts was founded by our craftsman Vasily Terkin. Here you can see how a simple piece of metal makes a knitting needle, and a piece of clay makes a real jug.
You can also buy souvenirs made by our craftsmen here.
