A story about visiting a museum. Culture and education. IMuseums we choose

Today I would like to talk about the excursion to the Ice Age Museum-Theater, which we visited in the spring. We went by bus (the program also included visiting another minor excursion), booked through a travel agency. We always try to book an excursion to a particular place in advance, because very often the demand for interesting exhibitions is greater than the supply.

The Ice Age Museum-Theater is located in pavilion 71 at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. At the entrance, all the children were greeted by a cute stuffed mammoth, whose smile immediately lifted everyone’s spirits. The main composition of the museum is stuffed animals of ancient times, as well as authentic animal skeletons found under a large layer of snow and ice. In addition, in “Ice Age” you can look at real mammoth tusks, the size and “scope” of which will amaze anyone.

Naturally, the fifth-graders were interested in the excursion; they were especially impressed by the tusks and skeletons of animals, which, in fact, are rarely seen in person, especially the originals. What was especially impressive were the various crafts made from ivory or mammoth tusks. As an example - ivory chess, the detailed work of which is beyond praise. As far as I remember, such chess can be purchased, but the price is simply prohibitive, considering that the material is not artificial (12,000 rubles)!

In some places, the material presented by the guide was boring, and the children were distracted by extraneous problems. In addition, it is worth remembering that children aged 11-12 years are very mobile, and they do not know how to listen for a long time about the same thing. However, they told really interesting things about mammoths.

They have an alarm in the museum, so if a child decides to touch any exhibit (except those that are permitted), it immediately goes off and makes a nasty sound. I won’t hide it - some fell for it, and although they didn’t scold the children, the children had to be brainwashed after the excursion so that this wouldn’t happen again next time. It is worth noting that this is not a museum that you want to visit again and again. If you always want to visit the Hermitage or Peterhof, then the Ice Age Museum was created for a single visit. And one more thing: the excursion is unlikely to be interesting for high school students, but you can visit it as an introduction.

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"I'll take you to the museum..."
Stories told by Russian museum workers

Series "People's Book"

Head of the People's Book project Vladimir Chernets

Project coordinator, editor of the People's Book website Vladimir Guga

Project Manager for Internet promotion of the People's Book Tatiana Mayorova

Editorial board: Vladimir Guga, Anna Zimova, Ekaterina Serebryakova

© AST Publishing House LLC, 2017

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We express our gratitude

Organizing Committee of the International Youth Poetry Competition named after. K. R. Natalya Zhukova, host of the “Museum Stories” program on Radio St. Petersburg

To the Russian Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Russia) and personally to Afanasy Gnedovsky and Dinara Khalikova

Zoya Chalova, President of the St. Petersburg Library Society, Director of the Central City Public Library named after. V. V. Mayakovsky

Interstate TV and Radio Company "MIR" and personally to the head of the Internet Broadcasting Service Maria Cheglyaeva

Anna Worldova, correspondent for Radio Russia

Natalia Shergina, journalist

Tatyana Barkova, photographer

Yuri Murashkin, photographer

School-studio of television skills "Kadr"

Music TV channel "Pladis"

"Community of St. Petersburg Bloggers"

Magazine "Tourism and Culture Industry"

Alla Karyagina, host of the World of Arts program on Radio Maria

St. Petersburg Writers' Bench and personally Yuri Sobolev

Children's Library of History and Culture of St. Petersburg and personally Mira Vasyukova

Academy of Russian Ballet named after. A. Ya. Vaganova and personally Galina Petrova

State Museum of the History of Religion (St. Petersburg)

State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)

Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg)

St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Musical Art

Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (St. Petersburg)

All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin and Memorial Museum-Apartment of A. S. Pushkin (Moika, 12)

Exhibition Center "Hermitage Amsterdam"

State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoe Selo" (St. Petersburg)

State Museum-Reserve "Pavlovsk" (St. Petersburg)

State Museum-Reserve "Gatchina" (St. Petersburg)

Museum-Institute of the Roerich Family (St. Petersburg)

State Lermontov Museum-Reserve "Tarkhany"

Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum (Moscow)

Elabuga State Museum-Reserve

Kozmodemyansk cultural and historical museum complex

Kostroma Architectural, Ethnographic and Landscape Museum-Reserve "Kostromskaya Sloboda"

Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum (Chistopol, Republic of Tatarstan)

Museum of Wooden Architecture (Kostroma)

Museum of Electric Transport (St. Petersburg)

Museum-estate of S. V. Rachmaninov “Ivanovka”

Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts

Military Medical Museum (St. Petersburg)

Tver Regional Art Gallery

Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Chistopol State Historical, Architectural and Literary Museum-Reserve

“My whole life is connected with museums”
Opening remarks by the Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art

The collection that you are holding in your hands is designed to emphasize the importance of museums in our lives. And not only through acquaintance with the objects they store, but also through contact with the personal stories that envelop the museum world.

One of the clearest proofs of the intertwining of these two professions is the work of Nobel laureate in literature Orhan Pamuk, who wrote the novel “The Museum of Innocence”, and then brought the atmosphere of the life of his heroes into reality by opening a museum in Istanbul. Similar to the mission of a museum, literature, especially documentaries, is designed to record, preserve information and carry values ​​through time, remaining relevant and in demand for society. In essence, the museum teaches a leisurely, calm, respectful attitude towards heritage, history, and monuments. A person who has gone through museum school has a “protective psychology.” He reacts differently to the threat of losing what memory carries.

Visiting a museum is, like reading a good book, great pleasure and happiness, and very affordable. If we talk about a book, you just need to take it off the shelf and you are already happy if it is a good book. The museum additionally gives you a sense of your presence, your presence inside this world, the world of historical figures and events.

I am sure that the publication “People's Book. “I’ll take you to the museum” will be interesting not only for museum employees, who will be able to get acquainted with the memories of colleagues and visitors, but also for museum lovers, for whom this book will open the door to such a different and full of discoveries world of museum life.

V. I. Tolstoy,

Vice-President of ICOM Russia, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Culture and Art

Instead of a preface

Life is amazing and unpredictable. Who would have thought that when the AST publishing house decided to release another “People's Book” (this time dedicated to museums), this would lead to a new St. Petersburg community, which does not yet have a name, but it seems that it already has a future.

And it all started with a thought: how can museum workers, scientific people, sometimes closed, immersed in their own quests and serious matters, be involved in collecting stories for this collection? Hear from them life-like, maybe even ironic or comic stories about their life in the museum? That’s when the idea arose - to hold something like a museum skit...

They decided to organize the first St. Petersburg skit party outside the museum, in the “Books and Coffee” art cafe. It wasn’t just a success – everyone present liked it! It turned out that museum workers are not people at all immersed in the past. They are ironic, know how to tell wonderful - enticing and funny - stories, love to listen and know how to laugh contagiously.

At the second skit, a proposal was received from representatives of the State Museum of the History of Religion: let’s meet next time at our museum! And here we go... One museum replaced another, new people came, and the old-timers called themselves “veterans” of the new museum movement. Over the course of a year, skit parties have turned from just friendly communication into a completely serious activity: they get to know each other, are interested in how colleagues live, look at museums, expositions, exhibitions, and then talk about them. Bringing new colleagues here, they find friends and partners for new projects... The community spread throughout the city with its activities: first they performed at the Book Salon in St. Petersburg, then at the Book Alleys, and now the museum hour at the Friday evenings of the St. Petersburg Writers' Book Shop has become a permanent feature.

The poet said: “It is not given to us to predict how our word will respond...” But it turned out to be given to us, even before the book was published. And now the book is coming out. And, perhaps, not the last, which will be written together by people who cannot imagine life without a museum.

Natalya Zhukova,

Open area

Collecting stories about these roads, we compiled a whole book. Among its authors are researchers, travelers, and tour guides. If you think that a book of museum stories is a collection of strict manuscripts, you are deeply mistaken. A museum is an amazing world in which scientific discoveries are made and a variety of events take place - tragic and comical. That is why the thematic rubricator and the pool of our authors are so diverse.

We started putting together the book “I'll Take You to a Museum” at the end of 2015 and finally, almost two years later, it was released. Making the collection was not easy, since we were following an unbeaten path: books like this had never been published before. But nevertheless, we - authors, editors, experts - tried to make the book as honest, interesting and competent as possible.

Read our book and come to museums.

The museum is an open area! The museum is a territory of discovery!

Vladimir Guga,

correspondent for the magazine “We Read Together”, coordinator of the “People’s Book” project and editor of the website of the same name

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Museums we choose

Nahum Kleiman
film historian, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
(Moscow)
There can be no progress in art

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© N. I. Kleiman, text, photo, 2017

In 1989, Naum Ikhilievich Kleiman headed the Cinema Museum, organized by the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, which became a real cult place in the capital. In 2005, the State Central Cinema Museum was evicted from the walls of the Cinema Center built for it on Krasnaya Presnya, and thousands of serious film lovers lost a platform to get acquainted with the best examples of cinema and communicate with like-minded people. Naum Ikhilyevich Kleiman told the organizers of the project “People's Book. I’ll take you to a museum” about the importance of museums in the life of a modern person and shared his views on museum culture.

N. I. Kleiman. In Japan at a seminar on Eisenstein

Museum as an Island of Honor

The museum world of Russia is usually perceived only through the prism of its two cultural capitals. However, devotees live and work in the regions who create amazing things. Yes, in St. Petersburg and Moscow there are much more opportunities to support museum work. But sometimes we simply cannot imagine how much ingenuity and true talent the workers of regional museums have shown at all times.

The Minusinsk Museum of Local Lore received top awards at international exhibitions back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was founded by pharmacist and pharmacist Nikolai Martyanov in 1877. This museum still exists and is thriving. I visited it with Vasily Shukshin in 1963. It not only contains household items, flora and fauna of Siberia, but also shows the involvement of the inhabitants of a distant region in the “big” world. Martyanov created not just a repository of artifacts, but assembled a model of a single world, organic, technical, human.

Another example is Barnaul. Altai is a stunning region. The Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region is the northernmost Buddhist region in the world. Also very interesting here are traces of the settlement of freed convicts from tsarist times, former serfs from different regions of the European part of Russia. At one time, they came to Altai, received land there... This combination of cultures - Buddhism and Russian traditions - is unique.

The Altai region has given Russia a lot of talent, including filmmakers. In Barnaul there is the State Museum of the History of Literature, Art and Culture (GMILIKA). Wonderful people from this museum have come to Moscow, to our Cinema Museum more than once - director Igor Alekseevich Korotkov and his deputy for scientific work Elena Vladimirovna Ogneva.

Once upon a time, the Barnaul museum had a branch - the House-Museum of Vasily Shukshin in his native village of Srostki. Now this museum has a whole network of branches, including those related to cinema. A branch is already operating, preserving the memory of the magnificent actress Ekaterina Savinova. In the future, there will be the opening of museums for director Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev and actor Valery Zolotukhin. Enthusiasts strive to perpetuate the names of all the people for whom the Altai region is famous. This is not just boasting about your small homeland, but an attempt to inspire the younger generation: “Guys, you do not live on the edge of the world. Your fellow countrymen are world famous people.” This is an extremely important – both moral and civic – function of the museum, not to mention the preservation of memorial items and the memory of wonderful artists.

The Irkutsk Museum of the Decembrists appeared literally before my eyes. For more than a century, enthusiasts have been collecting exhibits related to the stay of the Decembrists and their families in Siberia. They were kept for a long time in the collections of the Museum of History and Local Lore, sometimes making exhibitions. In 1963, when a group of VGIK graduates traveled around Siberia with their diploma works, the poet Mark Sergeev spoke about the future museum as a dream - “his own and a few other eccentrics.” In 1970, an exhibition opened in the Trubetskoys’ house, and later in the Volkonskys’ house. As far as I remember, even then the concept of this museum was very different from the general Soviet doctrine, according to which the December Uprising of 1825 was only the forerunner of October.

The founders of this museum created a kind of “island of honor,” if you like, which today can play a colossal moral role both for Irkutsk and for all of Russia. The same enthusiast was Vladimir Petrovich Kupchenko, who did everything to ensure that Maximilian Voloshin’s house in Crimea became a museum. But these are just a few unique museum phenomena that come to mind first. And there are many, many more of them.

Museum like Fate

Many roads lead people to serve in museums. One ancient Chinese parable comes to mind: a man was invited to civil service, which in China was and remains a very honorable occupation. And he went on foot to the capital. He walked and walked and suddenly saw a small child crying on the threshold of a house near the road. It turned out that his parents died of illness. The man decided to stop and wait for the next passerby to place the orphan in his care. But those passers-by who occasionally appeared on the road did not want to take the child. Then the would-be dignitary began to cultivate the land of his deceased parents. Gradually, the man got used to the baby, and spent his whole life next to him, never getting into public service.

When the Union of Cinematographers founded the museum, I didn’t think that it would become a job for me. I intended to continue to work on the Eisenstein legacy and film science... I agreed to “help with the development of the concept”, to devote a year and a half to the museum, no more. But this “child” still didn’t let me go. To be honest, I am not a fighter, I have absolutely no fighting qualities. But it turned out that the director must keep his fists clenched and his elbows outstretched at all times, so that the newly-minted “masters of life” do not destroy his museum. They repeatedly tried to break me, but I could not allow myself to give up, so as not to betray the cause that society and cinema needed and the young people who believed in it - not only employees, but viewers: they needed such a museum. As, indeed, to the classics themselves, who, without our attention to their heritage, also become “orphans”.

The creation of the Cinema Museum took so long and was not easy, because the idea of ​​what “cinema should be” was constantly changing: yesterday’s “demigods” were constantly being overthrown. In the 20s, pre-revolutionary cinema was overthrown, then, in the 30s, a blow was struck against the so-called “formalists” who helped cinema find its own language, in the 40s they hit the “politically immature” filmmakers of the 30s, etc. .d... Disrespect for one's predecessors is a terrible tendency. Why did this happen to us? There are many reasons for this. But, in particular, we are in the grip of a very strange understanding of progress as the obligatory replacement of the worse (or underdeveloped) with the better. But there can be no progress in art! In general, not respecting your predecessors means not respecting your descendants. At one of the decisive meetings with Soviet officials regarding the fate of the Cinema Museum on Krasnaya Presnya, a certain lady in the office asked us: “Well, what kind of garbage will you display there? Postcards? Posters? Advertisements? Yes?"

Stanislav Rostotsky and artist Elsa Rappoport at her exhibition at the Cinema Museum

Fortunately, at that moment, in 1992, we were supported by Yevgeny Yuryevich Sidorov, the Minister of Culture, and the Cinema Museum, for which the split Union of Cinematographers no longer had the funds, was re-established in order to receive state status in 2002.

Museum as a Chamber of Weights and Measures

Not only celebrities came out of the Cinema Museum, including Andrei Zvyagintsev, Alexei Popogrebsky, Boris Khlebnikov, but also a number of artists, cameramen, and many simply good people.

Quentin Tarantino at the Museum of Cinema stock exhibition near the costumes for the film “Ivan the Terrible”

What is a museum? This is not only a repository of documents and art monuments. It is, first of all, a navigator in the world of culture. Figuratively speaking, a visitor to a museum is given a map and told: “Here are Leonardo and Rembrandt, here is Van Gogh, and here is Serov. Now decide for yourself whether the constantly appearing new paintings are approaching these standards and which of them is a new phenomenon in art, which will later also become a standard?” I have said many times, but I am not afraid to repeat, that a museum is a kind of chamber of weights and measures. Agree, we need to know what a kilogram is, what a second is, what a kilometer is. Otherwise we will be lost in this world. So the Cinema Museum fulfilled its function of educating the individual, and also served as a chamber of aesthetic measures and weights in the endless sea of ​​“audio vision”.

But sometimes a museum plays not only an educational role, but also provides an opportunity to make important personal discoveries. Once we showed visitors the film “Ilyich's Outpost.” After the session, a young woman came up to me and said: “I am so grateful to you for this film. Now I understand my mother better.” For me, this is the highest compliment to the work of the museum! If a person begins to understand his mother better, then the existence of the museum is justified. This viewer does not necessarily need to understand the nuances of Marlen Khutsiev’s direction or Margarita Pilikhina’s cinematography. The main thing is that her mother became for her part of the reality that she saw and understood. What could be more important?

Museum as a Guarantor of Permanence

Can a museum survive in the era of special effects-rich cinema, digital television, and computer technology? Certainly! When we held the first exhibition of works by Kazimir Malevich at the Tretyakov Gallery, I invited my techie friends to it, who were not directly related to art, but who sincerely wanted to understand why this “abstractionist” was so valued in the world. Leading them through the exhibition and commenting on the paintings to the best of my ability and knowledge, I suddenly discovered that there were more and more people around - they also wanted to hear our conversation. It is known that an unprepared visitor’s first reaction to Malevich’s work is approximately the following: “Well, I drew a square. What's so special about this? I can do that too". But people begin to look at so-called non-objective art completely differently when you tell them that Malevich studied with icon painters, in particular with Andrei Rublev, whose “Trinity” for some reason depicts a double rectangle in the center on a white field... It turns out that it’s so geometric the “golden ratio”, known to the ancient Greeks, is presented, associated with both the categories of beauty and the irrationality of the world. On this greatest icon, Rublev depicted not only the Old Testament legend of the three angels who visited the house of Abraham, but also the New Testament metaphysics of the unity of the three hypostases of God. And he depicted it not only figuratively - in the silent conversation of the Trinity about the self-sacrifice of Christ, but also abstractly - with the help of a geometric system of circles and spheres spreading from the Sacrificial Chalice to the entire universe. If you stand in front of a genuine icon at the right point, you will suddenly find yourself in a sphere that, thanks to reverse perspective, extends from the icon into the space in front of it. It’s like an analogue of the sacrament of communion! This miracle cannot be achieved with any reproductions. You experience a similar effect, say, in Toledo in front of El Greco’s painting “The Funeral of Count Orgaz”: standing in front of it at the barrier that the artist himself may have placed, you suddenly see the count’s funeral on the ground above, his soul in front of the Virgin Mary from below, and right in front ourselves - the boundless Cosmos beyond perspective...

In a museum, both visual and verbal communication with the original is possible, which other types and objects of educational activity lack. Neither cinema nor the Internet will ever replace the original! But at the same time, the museum must not lag behind the times; it must attract more and more new means and forms of exhibition and communication.

When I first came to Berlin in 1968 at the invitation of the GDR Academy of Arts, its president, director Konrad Wolf, suggested going to Weimar, Dresden and Leipzig. In Weimar, the first thing I went to, of course, was the Goethe House. I was told that first I had to go to the stables... I was surprised, but that’s what I did. It turned out that the stables had been converted into a cinema hall in which a short introductory film was shown. It told who Goethe was, what his passions were, what he did for German culture, what this house meant to him, what kind of relationship he had with the Duke... Within fifteen to twenty minutes I was put in a certain mood, brought into Goethe’s life was introduced to his character, and the things from that house that I was about to see were shown in the context of his biography and work. After such an overture, I looked with completely different eyes at both the front suite in the memorial house and the small room where the poet worked at his desk. Today, technology even makes it possible to tactfully introduce small “exhibition films” into a memorial exhibition, through broadcasting to a visitor’s smartphone, revealing the meaning and significance of the exhibits.

Museum as a fashion trend

The exhibition of Valentin Serov’s paintings was crowded even before Vladimir Putin appeared there. True, at first there was no excitement there. Then fame spread throughout Moscow, and it began... I got there when there was already a line. Unfortunately, we have something called “fashion”. Alas, art has become a subject of fashionable reception... It is customary to “tear” tickets for some concerts, as is customary to worship a cult figure. Unfortunately, they tried to make Valentin Serov’s work into something it never was. Yes, there was a stampede at the Picasso exhibition, and I remember it very well. And at the Moscow-Paris exhibition. They became for many people a discovery of the art of the 20th century, for some - an opportunity to “taste the forbidden fruit”, and for others - a reason for scandal. Yes, the same Caravaggio! People also stood in line to see him. But Serov is not a shortage and something forbidden. The public themselves “promoted” him, and Putin’s visit may have spurred this “promotion”. In part, I’m even glad about this: Serov is a world-class artist, but only a few of his paintings were popular in Russia. And outside of it, he is generally little known. Now he will be “in demand” at least no less than Shishkin...

I believe that the more the head of state goes to exhibitions, the better the state will be. The example of a leader often cultivates the feelings of the masses, and such an example is far from the worst. But the exhibition of Serov’s works turned partly into a fashionable event, which swirled around, like a whirlpool, a lot of people who were generally indifferent to culture, including representatives of the political elite. The media also added fuel to the fire. The role of television as a drug is undeniable: it injects into the public consciousness an excited attitude towards the most natural things.

Serov, by the way, is very well represented in the Tretyakov Gallery. Well, they brought a portrait of Ida Rubinstein from St. Petersburg for this exhibition. So what? It wasn’t for him that everyone rushed to the Central House of Artists! It’s just that suddenly everyone “needed” to watch Serov. Once in the Louvre I saw a crowd of tourists looking at the La Gioconda through telescopes and binoculars. But why is the Mona Lisa an object of cult? What, the “Madonna of the Rocks” by the same Leonardo, located nearby, has less artistic value?

Museum as a Window to Eternity

I really love the A.S. Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, which now occupies the entire house on the Moika, where the poet spent the last months of his life. Once upon a time, only the poet’s memorial apartment in this house was a museum. Nina Ivanovna Popova, the current director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, worked here. She led the tours amazingly. I was lucky - friends introduced us, and I had the honor of walking through Pushkin’s apartment together with Nina Ivanovna. I will never forget the beginning of her story: “Everything you see here, except for the cane, the desk and the bullet-ridden vest, is typology. Even a miniature of Natalya Nikolaevna (Goncharova. - Ed.) is a facsimile copy. Real miniatures would fade in the light and we do not display them. The only thing that is truly authentic is the view from the window. Pushkin saw the same thing that you see now. Here is Benkendorf's house, and this is Derzhavin's house. And there is Winter..."

When you stand in front of this window, you inevitably identify yourself with Pushkin. This kind of perception of the museum allows you to understand much more than what the lecture gives. There should be no fetishistic attitude towards the museum. And a museum specialist should not deceive by passing off the typology as genuine things. Of course, he should admit: “This is what Pushkin’s living room might have looked like, and this is what his bedroom might have looked like. But we also have something that you won’t see in any other museum in the world.” With the right approach to presenting information, the museum visitor is not simply placed in the coordinate system selected according to the accepted general methodology. It is important to immerse him not only in the aura of the originals, but also in the field of assumptions. There is no need to hide controversial issues from him, and it is necessary to awaken a person’s memory and imagination with expositional images (not only originals and typological artifacts). It is impossible to isolate art, on the one hand, from objective life, from the ever-changing reality of the universe, and on the other, from museum creativity and from the co-creation of the viewer.

Interviewed by Vladimir Guga

Pupils of class 2 "B" of State Budgetary Educational Institution Secondary School No. 37 in Moscow, 2013-2014 academic year

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Hayrapetyan K.

Socination.

Paleontological Museum.

Today our class went to the museum by bus. The bus was big and beautiful. The museum building is large, beautiful and bright. We went up the stairs into the hall, undressed and began the tour. There we saw various dinosaurs, mammoths, crocodiles, sharks, rhinoceroses and reptiles. The largest egg was a bird's egg.

We were glad that we learned a lot of interesting things for ourselves.

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Baranov S.

Composition.

In the Paleontological Museum.

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Berdimuratov.

We learned that the dinosaur Velociraptor can run very fast (“fast thief”). Then we learned that some types of dinosaurs had a long tail or a very long neck. Some dinosaurs can fly, while others can swim. We learned EVERYTHING about flying dinosaurs, herbivores and carnivores.

OK it's all over Now!

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Berezovskaya L.

Composition.

Visit to the museum.

Today I was at the paleontological museum. We arrived at the museum by bus. We were greeted by a cheerful guide. She told interesting stories about dinosaurs, monkeys, mammoths and people living in caves. I remember the story about the largest dinosaur. He had two brains. One nut-sized brain was in the head and the other was in the tail. He helped defend. It turns out that the elephant bird had a larger egg than the dinosaurs. In the museum you can see the skeleton of a mammoth. I remember the little mammoth. The baby mammoth was named after the river where it was found. At that time, the man was not tall, about one hundred and twenty centimeters, and his life expectancy was about thirty years. In their homes, people painted on the stone walls the animals they ate.

At the end of the excursion we went to buy souvenirs. My friend Masha and I chose two beautiful horses.

I really enjoyed the excursion.

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Vlasova N.

Composition.

My class and I went on an excursion to the paleontological museum. I liked the largest dinosaur - Diplodocus. It lays eggs and is 26 m long. And I also liked the microbes, they were green. There was an exhibit of an ancient deer with large antlers. I saw the head of a mammoth and its tusks. In another room I met a hornless rhinoceros. He was tall and big. Then there was the head of a large platypus. And almost at the end of the excursion, we saw eggs of birds and dinosaurs.

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Egor P.

Composition.

Today my class and I went to the paleontological museum.

We learned a lot of new things, for example, that the largest mammoth has eyes looking in different directions and nostrils on the forehead. And also that dinosaurs have cold blood, while we have warm blood. It turns out that the smartest dinosaurs could not run fast. I remember the fossilized tooth of a shark, which is called a carcharod, and the smallest mammoth, which was found on June 23, 1977. There were also green microbes that feed on the rays of the sun. I was amazed by a fish 2 meters long; it could walk underwater. The blue whale of that time weighed 2000 tons. And the largest frog was 2 meters long. I also saw the skeleton of the Loch Ness monster in the hall.

I really enjoyed this museum.

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Komkov N

Homework.

Composition.

My excursion to the museum.

This morning, the whole class and I went to the paleontological museum. We didn't travel long, on a very comfortable bus.

I learned a lot of new and interesting things at the museum. For example, the largest egg is laid by a bird. And that the largest animal on earth is the blue whale. I also saw skeletons of dinosaurs and crocodiles, mammoth tusks and much more.

After the excursion ended, the guys and I had time to take photographs of the exhibits for memory. Having gained some impressions, we went home.

Thanks for the interesting excursion!

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Mamoyan A.

Composition.

A day at the museum.

Today our class visited the Paleontological Museum. An excursion was organized for us. I really liked the guide; she talked interestingly about prehistoric animals. In the museum we visited six halls in which we saw the skeletons of various dinosaurs. I especially liked the diplodocus, as it turned out to be the largest in the museum. We also got acquainted with the bones of a saber-toothed tiger, hornless rhinoceros, deer, lizards and other animals.

Personally, I really enjoyed the trip and I think we had a good time.

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Baranov S.

Composition.

In the Paleontological Museum.

On November 7, our class went on an excursion to the Paleontological Museum. We wanted to find out who dinosaurs are. But we learned a lot more. I wrote down all the most interesting things. Here, for example: at the entrance we saw petrified trees, and when we entered the first hall we saw the skeleton of a dinosaur, which seemed to be hanging in the air. Looking at the wall, I was surprised to find that there was a huge painting in front of me. It turned out that the dinosaur was a huge lizard, and the first vertebrates to appear on earth were fish. And the ancestors of people are monkeys.

The museum had a huge skeleton of a hornless rhino (bigger than I thought, by the way). There was even a diplodocus skeleton and brain!

They told us about the elephant bird, about the fossil Pinocchio, and showed us a two-meter-long skeleton of a frog with a tail. And the most interesting thing is coelacanth, a fish with legs! They showed a stone that was one and a half billion years old, and the skeleton of a plesiosaur. At the end of our trip, we bought ourselves some souvenirs. I purchased a miniskeleton of a stegosaurus, which is very mobile and looks like a real one.

I will remember this trip for a long time!

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Morales-Escomilla Nicole

Composition.

On the topic of:

A trip to the museum

My class and I went on an excursion to the Paleontological Museum. First I saw the tree of life, then they showed us the first people. They were small and looked like monkeys. There was also a mammoth standing there. He had big tusks. I also liked the green microbes. Then we were taken to a hall where there were dinosaur skeletons. I liked the duck-billed dinosaur. But most of all I remember the skeleton of Diplodocus, its length is 26 meters.

I really enjoyed the excursion and will definitely go there again!

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Peysakhova

Homework.

Composition.

There are a lot of dinosaur skeletons in this museum. All skeletons are made almost life-size. We saw the skeleton of Tarbosaurus, Diplodocus, and Hipparion. I was impressed by the wide variety of invertebrate animals. Of course, one time is not enough to see all the exhibitions. I plan to visit this museum with my parents.

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Potapushin N.

Homework.

An essay about:

"In the world of ancient giants."

A long time ago, everything was different on our planet. The continents were closer to each other, the climate was humid. The paths in the forests and fields were trampled by various dinosaurs.

Science knows more than 900 species of dinosaurs that lived on Earth during the Mesozoic era. Scientists - paleontologists tell us about the existence of dinosaurs and introduce us to the Moscow Paleontological Museum. Yu.A. Orlov, which I visited on November 7 with my 2 “B” class.

I learned a lot of interesting things from the excursion. For example, that the first representative of the ancient world was called Stegosaurus. The longest dinosaur was named Diplodocus; its tail was 14 meters! Scientists claim that there were dinosaurs - poison dart frogs.

I will remember this amazing and interesting excursion for a long time.

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Prodma A.

Composition.

How I went to the museum with my class.

Today I was at the Paleontological Museum. Yu.A. Orlova. There was a lot of interesting things there. In the first room there were skeletons of mammals, and there was also a baby mammoth, Dima. In the next room I saw the ancient fish coelacanth and the ancestors of dinosaurs. And in the last room there was an aquarium with bacterial material.

I bought a balloon with a dinosaur as a souvenir.

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Ryndak N.

Composition.

First trip to the museum with the class.

On Thursday my class and I went to the Paleontological Museum.

We saw skeletons of dinosaurs and mammoths, and even blue whales there. We also saw crocodiles and alligators. We were told about these museum exhibits. They were beautiful and not very beautiful, but naturally they were not alive. I liked this museum. Me and some of the guys bought souvenirs.

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Savina V

Composition.

Paleontological Museum.

Our class was in the Paleontological Museum. There were petrified trees lying outside and many petrified fish inside. When we went down there was an interesting wall, and on this wall there were a lot of dinosaurs.

And then we went into the hall, there were many different types of dinosaur and mammoth bones. There were also half-monkeys, half-humans, even a long-horned deer and a mammoth skull, a large rhinoceros without a horn and a 25-meter-long Diplodocus. There were dinosaur eggs. Big eggs. In the next room there was a large chandelier. And there were also pictures of leeches. And there is a long dinosaur on the ceiling.

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Samarina L.

My excursion to the museum.

Today we went to the paleontological museum. I saw petrified wood. It warms your hands. And another mammoth skeleton.

I saw the skeleton of a pleosaur, an ancient amphibian. There are strange microbes in the museum. We were told about a frozen mammoth, whose name is Dima.

I really enjoyed the excursion.

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Saprykin V.

Composition.

On November 7th, our class had an excursion to the Paleontological Museum named after Yu.A. Orlova. This is one of the largest natural history museums in the world, tracing its history back to the Kunstkamera founded by Peter the Great. The museum's exhibition tells about the complex process of the evolution of life on Earth. Everyone was very interested in looking at the ancient monsters that once inhabited our planet: mammoths, dinosaurs, ancient rhinoceroses...

We also saw ancient mollusk shells, starfish, plant imprints on stones, and much more. I was most interested in ancient echinoderms, mollusks and ancient fish.

I was greatly impressed by the guide’s story about amazing creatures that once came out of the oceans onto land, walked the earth for millions of years, and then disappeared, and other amazing creatures appeared in their place.

We returned home full of impressions, and there were enough stories about the excursion for the whole evening.

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Semenov M.

I saw a petrified tree trunk in a museum. Then I saw a wall painted with dinosaurs. (Then I saw) We were shown the skeleton of a herbivorous dinosaur and another dinosaur 20 m long.

Then I saw...

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Stepanov E.

Composition.

Today my class and I went on an excursion to the paleontological museum. There are many halls and various skeletons. We were told about dinosaurs, mammoths, fish and plants that lived a long time ago. I've seen dinosaur eggs and they're big. I really enjoyed the excursion.I would like to visit there again with my parents.

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Susalev D.

My excursion.

Today our whole class went on an excursion to the paleontological museum. There we learned a lot of new and interesting things. We walked around different halls. In one of the halls we learned how and why to clean an aquarium, about crocodiles, tailed frogs, two-meter fish and the huge jaws of a blue whale! We were told about birds that lay the largest eggs in the world. It was interesting to find out how to distinguish a baby mammoth from a mammoth - by the tusks that grow in different directions. And the ancient rhinoceroses turned out to be hornless and looked like a horse or camel. Ancient people are very similar to monkeys. My favorite parts were the dinosaur skeletons and the dinosaurs smiling in the water. I wonder what they are thinking about?!

I really enjoyed our excursion!

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Tauger L.

Homework.

Composition.

Today I went to the Museum of Paleontology and there I saw the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. I remember the skull of a saber-toothed tiger, the skull of a mammoth and the skeleton of a prehistoric elk. We also saw germs in a glass box. The guide told us that once upon a time, many years ago, dinosaurs and other animals lived on our planet. Some were herbivores and others were carnivores. They all lived many millions of years ago. They all differed from each other in many ways.

I really enjoyed this excursion.

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Timokhov

In the paleontological museum we saw skeletons of prehistoric animals and dinosaurs.

I liked the bacteria that produce oxygen. I saw the eggs of reptiles and an ancient bird.

After visiting the museum, I learned a lot of new and interesting things.

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Fedorova M.

Our excursion.

Today my class and I went on an excursion to the paleontological museum.

At the museum, the guide told us about ancient people, about the times when dinosaurs and mammoths lived. There was a baby mammoth named Dima.

We were shown the tree of life. There were ancient fish and animals on it.

The museum had many halls and each was interesting in its own way. The whole class really enjoyed it. Now we are all looking forward to the next excursion with pleasure.

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Shabataeva S.

Composition.

Today my class and I went on an excursion to the paleontological museum. I learned a lot of interesting things about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived many millions of years ago. I saw the skeletons of dinosaurs, tyrannosaurs and crocodiles. We were shown exhibits of reptiles. I really enjoyed our excursion.

My city is rich in its historical culture. It has a large number of monuments and memorials to the heroes of our country, Russia. There are architectural monuments - buildings where very famous people of the last century lived. I love my city and my country very much, and I am proud of my historical heritage.

One day, our class teacher decided to give us an excursion to our state museum of local lore, located in the very center of our city. My classmates and I thought it would be very boring, but when we got there, we were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it was.

The guide was a young, pretty woman with a beautiful voice. She told a lot of interesting events and facts from the past life of our ancestors.

The museum had several halls, each of which contained paintings, chairs, tables, clothes from different periods of time in our history. I really liked the ancient weapons and daggers, which were decorated with ancient stones. In the museum, all exhibits are conveniently arranged, each has a nameplate, and some even have their own history.

After the guide took us through all the halls and told us everything he wanted about the museum, we were allowed to wander around it on our own. I could very closely see ancient tools, knightly armor, clay jugs, stuffed birds and animals. All these expositions seemed to be alive, it just seemed that time stood still a little.

Going to the museum left an indelible pleasant impression of a past life in my head. This excursion sparked my interest in history. For some time I even wanted to become a historian or archaeologist.

Our world in which we live now, which surrounds us, was created from the past and is closely connected with it. To understand the present, correct today’s and prevent future mistakes of humanity, it is necessary to look into the past and then everything will fall into place.

Essay on the topic Excursion to the museum

Recently, our whole class went on an excursion to the ethnographic museum of the peoples of Transbaikalia. The museum is located in the open air, outside the city of Ulan-Ude, in Verkhnyaya Berezovka, and occupies an area of ​​​​about forty hectares of land.

Our excursion coincided with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of this museum, and we could not only observe, but also participate in the festive performances. The artists performed in national costumes, everything was colorful and exciting.

I really enjoyed my visit to this extraordinary museum. Firstly, it is located in nature, right in the forest, and the air here is clean and fresh, everything around is surrounded by greenery. On the territory of the museum there are many architectural complexes depicting the life and way of life of various peoples of Transbaikalia. Ancient houses, churches, yurts, and various outbuildings are collected here. You can go inside these rooms and see the ancient environment in which our ancestors lived. All these ancient houses and other buildings were brought here from all over Buryatia and restored. All architectural monuments are kept in perfect order, and it seems that people still live in them. The houses are very cozy and clean, and in one of the Old Believer houses, we were even treated to fresh, hot pies.

Also on the territory of this park-museum there is a zoo corner where various animals of Buryatia and other regions of the country are kept. All conditions have been created for the animals, and the fact that the museum is located in the forest gives them the opportunity to feel as if they are in the wild. Bears, wolves, camels, reindeer, tigers, and many other different representatives of the animal world live here.

A walk through such a museum is very interesting and educational. We not only looked at the unique creations of human hands, but also learned a lot about the life of different nationalities. We learned about the culture and traditions of the Evenks, Buryats, and Old Believers, and became acquainted with their customs. We saw the national costumes of these peoples, household utensils, and ancient agricultural tools.

A visit to this extraordinary open-air museum left an unforgettable impression, and I still want to return here, now with my parents, so that they too can see such incredible beauty. It’s good that in our country there are ethnographic museums that preserve not only ancient monuments, but also pristine nature.

Option 3

One day my mother decided to expand my and my father’s horizons. She said that we would go to the museum next weekend. There are many museums in our glorious city, but this museum is unusual. It is located on board the S-56 submarine, which is frozen in eternal parking, on the Korabelnaya embankment in the city of Vladivostok.

Our mother is interested in everything that has to do with the glorious Russian fleet. And the history of the submarine fleet interests her most of all. So we went to see the museum boat. It is very large, the upper part is painted gray so as not to be noticeable among the waves. Next comes a white stripe - it is called the “waterline”. And the lower part is painted green.

On the wheelhouse there is a red star and “S-56” is written in large letters. While we were walking to the boat, my mother said that she was reading a book written by the commander of this boat. Of course, we did not climb into the boat through the top hatch. An ordinary glass door was made, like in any museum. We bought tickets at the ticket office on the street, next to the boat.

When we went inside, we saw that everything there was covered with carpets, so we were given special cloth slippers with ties. They are worn on street shoes to avoid dirt. When we were all ready, the guide came - an officer in a naval uniform. Half of the boat is like a regular museum, the other half is made to look like a real boat.

Our guide began the story with the history of the creation of the submarine fleet in Russia. This was at the end of the 19th century. He told how the first submarines were delivered to Vladivostok by rail in disassembled form. They were assembled at a local shipyard.

Then he talked about the further development of the submarine fleet in Russia. It was so interesting. Mom didn’t take her eyes off the military at all. During World War II, submarines sank German submarines. In addition, they accompanied the ships of our allies, which came to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk with cargo.

On one of the walls hung a huge portrait of the legendary S-56 commander. The commander's personal belongings and the ship's log are displayed in the window. The guide told about the exploits of this boat, how many fascist ships it sank. What trips did you take part in?

Then the fun began. We walked along a narrow corridor. Behind the glass in a tiny radio room sat a radio operator wearing headphones. Of course not real. But made as if alive. Next is the wardroom. There was an ordinary metal table screwed to the floor. There is a portrait of Stalin and Lenin on the wall.

In the bow of the boat there is a torpedo compartment. There were two torpedoes lying there. Of course, not combat. The inside is empty, except for the shell. What a pity that you can’t touch anything!

We thanked the officer for the very informative excursion, took off our slippers, and went outside. Everyone was impressed by what they saw. Dad said that it was a pity that he did not serve on a submarine.

First of all, it wouldn’t hurt to go to the museum. It’s certainly easier for city residents to do this; I think almost every regional center has a local history museum. There are many museums in our city, even though the city is small and a regional center. It also depends on which famous people lived in your locality; often there are museums even in villages, if celebrities were born in them at one time or just happened to be famous. If there is no museum, then I would advise going to the nearest locality and going to museum. You don’t have to go to the capital to do this; you can actually learn a lot of interesting things in museums.

Then we begin to write a story about a museum, for example about the Local History Museum.

First, tell us what the museum looks like externally, before that, briefly describing the path to it and why you went there. You can write it like this. On weekends, my parents and I were thinking about where to go to relax, and my dad suggested going to our museum, which is located nearby. We live in the city center, and in its historical part there is an old building. I often passed by and knew that this was a museum. But for some reason I have never been there.

Next we write about your new sensations: about the smell in the museum or about shoe covers, special slippers that you were asked to wear over your shoes. It was unusual and interesting.

Then we write about what sections and rooms there are in the museum. For example, on the first floor we looked at the history of our area, starting from the bones of a mammoth. There were ancient coins and a machine gun and pistols. There was a hall dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. Describe an interesting exhibit. Next, describe the second floor, where, for example, the art gallery is located. And end with rave reviews and your overall impressions.