Melitopol Museum of Local History
Мелітопольський краєзнавчий музей | |
Established | 1900 |
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Location | Melitopol, Ukraine |
Coordinates | 46°50′43″N 35°22′53″E / 46.84528°N 35.38139°E |
Collections | Social history, art, archaeology, natural science, numismatics |
Collection size | 60,000 |
Founder | D. Serdyukov |
Director | Leila Ibragimova |
Website | melitopol-museum |
Melitopol Museum of Local History (Ukrainian: Мелітопольський краєзнавчий музей, romanized: Melitopol's'kyy krayeznavchyy muzey) is a museum in Melitopol, Ukraine.[1] It exhibits objects relating to the history and nature of the region. The museum is located in the former Chernikov Mansion, built in 1913. As of 2022 its director was Leila Ibragimova.
History
The museum's collection began in 1900, when the Melitopol
As of 1928, the museum occupied three small rooms and a corridor. The three rooms included historical and natural, as well as ethnographic and archaeological departments. Although the museum had many exhibits, the lack of space and unsystematic organization of museum material, according to museum director I. P. Kurylo-Krymchak, made access to the collection difficult.[3]
In the early 1930s, Kurylo-Krymchak launched extensive conservation work, protecting the nature reserves of the North Pryazovia from capture for agricultural purposes. However, in January 1935, he was sacked from the museum and arrested. During the Second World War he was appointed mayor of Melitopol by the Germans and resumed the work in the museum, once again as its director.[4]
In 1967, the museum moved to the former Chernikov mansion on Karl Marx Street (now Mykhailo Hrushevsky Street). From 1971, the director of the museum was BD Mikhailov. In 1972, the diorama "Assault by Soviet troops of the Wotan line in October 1943" was created in the museum.[4]
On 10 March 2022, after the
Building
The three-story mansion of merchant Ivan Chernikov of the Second Guild was built in 1913. The interiors of the building are richly decorated with artistic stucco.[9] Ivan Egorovich Chernikov was twice elected chairman of the Melitopol City Council - from 1891 to 1895, and from 1901 to 1905. The Chernikov brothers owned a trading house that specialized in supplying the manufacturers of Melitopol. On the first floor of Chernikov's mansion there was a shop selling sewing machines of the American company "Singer", and the two upper floors of the house were residential facilities.[10]
In 1917, the Chernikov family emigrated to France. From June to October 1920, the building housed the headquarters of
Collections
The collection at the Melitopol Museum of Local History consists of approximately 60,000 objects. It houses a unique collection of
The museum also has a collection of historic photographs, books and documents that record aspects of the economic, political, and cultural life of Melitopol. The art collection includes works by the artist Alexander Grigoryevich Tishler, who was from the city.[10] Another significant object in the collection is the Doukhobor Memorial Stone, which was carved in the nineteenth century by Doukhobors who were being exiled from their home near Melitopol to the village of Bogdanovka (Starobogdanovka).[12]
Many of the items were looted by Russian soldiers during the
Gallery
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Ice Age fauna at the museum
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Scythian golden gorytos
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Pig
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Folk display
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Diorama
References
- ^ "Melitopol". www.encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ ""Просвіта"". 2013-10-29. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ Kuril-Krymchak Museum of Local Lore of Melitopol region (Ukr.) // Local lore : scientific journal. - Kharkiv: Ukrainian Committee of Local Lore, 1928. - № 7-10. - P. 74.
- ^ a b "Образование, медицина, культура, спорт". 2013-09-30. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ "In occupied Melitopol, invaders kidnapped a deputy of regional council". Rubryka. 2022-03-10. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ "Russian invaders steal Scythian gold from Melitopol museum, Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine says". english.nv.ua. 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ "Ukraine says Russian forces looted Melitopol museum of Scythian gold". UPI. 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ^ Chukhraenko AA Stucco decorations of the building of the Museum of Local Lore // Melitopol Journal of Local Lore, 2018, No.13, pp. 75-80 (in Russian).
- ^ a b c "Мелитопольский городской краеведческий музей - MGK Мелитополь". www.mgk.zp.ua. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ "Страница не найдена (404-я ошибка) / Мелитопольский краеведческий музей / Музейний простір. Музеї України та світу". prostir.museum. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
- ^ "Doukhobor Memorial Stone from the Village of Bogdanovka". Doukhobor Heritage. 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
External links
- Media related to Melitopol Museum at Wikimedia Commons