The Kukol Museum and the children’s book “The Country of Miracles” is a museum in the city of Yekaterinburg , which is part of the United Museum of Ural Writers [3] .
Museum of Dolls and Children's Book "Wonderland" | |
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Founding date | 2000 [1] |
Address | 620075, Yekaterinburg , Proletarskaya Street 16 [2] |
Museum history and buildings
From June 1880 to August 19, 1883, the family of Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak rented an apartment in the building where the museum is now located - house number 16 on Ofitserskaya Street (now Proletarskaya Street). The hostess of the house, Khioniya Ivanovna Cherepanova, is a bourgeois, the treasurer of the Novo-Tikhvinsky monastery, the wife of the mine surveyor of the Berezovsky mine, rented Mom's corner room, whose windows looked out onto the street and into the courtyard.
In this house, Dmitry Narkisovich wrote one of the versions of the novel “ Privalovsky Millions ”, the story “Sisters”, the autobiographical story “Funtik”, the essay “Our non-Russians”.
In the early 1980s, the question of reconstructing Proletarskaya Street was raised, since it is located in the very center of the city. According to the draft General Plan, all dilapidated houses here were subject to demolition.
The house in which the writer lived was donated to the Museum of Ural Writers and restored as a historical monument.
February 21, 1985 the house was transferred to the museum by the decision of the executive committee of the Sverdlovsk city council .
In 1989, the building was commissioned as an exposition department of the museum.
October 31, 1994 was opened an exhibition hall. The first exhibition took place: “Russian toy”.
On May 18, 2000 the exhibition hall was transformed into the Museum of Dolls and Children's Book “Wonderland”.
The museum collects and displays souvenir, play, theater, author and collection dolls from many countries of the world, toys, rare children's books of the XIX and XX centuries, various books of fairy tales [1] [2] [4] .
Structural features of the building
Old house typical urban development.
The building is one-storeyed, wooden, sheathed by a chaos , with a hipped roof, with platbands on the windows decorated with carved decor.
At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, houses such as this were typical buildings and formed the image of provincial Russian cities.
Today the building is the rarest phenomenon of Russian wooden classicism in the architectural buildings of the city.
Exposition and exhibition area: 81 m² [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 The site of the United Museum of Ural Writers. History of the Museum of Dolls and Children's Book "Wonderland"
- ↑ 1 2 3 Museums of Russia. Museum of Dolls and Children's Book "Wonderland"
- ↑ The site of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals
- ↑ Uralweb. Museum of Dolls and Children's Book "Wonderland"