For the tusk yes to the museum

On a kama, go ahead! At the end of April, the Museum of Perm Antiquities will begin work in the exhibition hall of the Perm Regional Museum. “Salt” went to Sibirskaya Street, 15 and looked at how one of the main exhibits of the new museum - the skeleton of the mammoth.

The exposition with the similar name - the “Museum of Perm Antiquities” - was introduced to the public back in 2010 at the Perm II station. The central part of the exhibition was dedicated to Flora and the fauna of the so -called Perm period (the last period of Paleozoy, 299–251 million years ago). At the same time, the creators of the exhibition did not limit themselves to foreign people and estemmenosukhs, making an exhibition about evolution, paleontology in general - with the maximum possible variety of artifacts. Similarly, the permanent independent museum of the Perm antiquities, located in one of the premises of the regional museum ; And there will be more exhibits in it than shown at Perm I.

The Paleontological Museum in its modern version is a full -fledged institution of world level; At least, the impression of a cursory acquaintance with her is exactly what. There is almost everything that should be in the normal museum of the 21st century. Properly set lighting, multimedia projects, attractive design, children's department. Even a sightseeing site with a small cafe and a place to relax (which, by the way, is not enough in the same Museum of Modern Art of Permm ).

True, so far in the Museum of Perm antiquities relative chaos reigns: the main skeletons are mounted, as usual, in a matter of days before the opening. Flow the last bones to mammoth. For more than eighty years (the skeleton was found in 1927), the mammoth was the main and most branded exhibit of the local local history museum. The exposition changed constantly, only the mammoth remained in its place. In 2007, however, the skeleton was dismantled-in connection with the move of the museum from the bishop's house to the house of Meshkov on the street. Ordzhonikidze, 11.

In the Museum of Perm Antiquities, Mammoth will appear before the audience updated: over the past three years, he, taking advantage of the moment, was cleaned and restored.