Local history museum description and photo - Crimea: Saki (Topic)

Local history museum description and photos - Crimea: Saki. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Museum of Local Lore, located in the Crimean resort town of Saki at 29 Kurortnaya Street, is the only museum of its kind in the CIS. Dedicated to the history of healing with the healing mud of the Saki Lake.

In 1909, at the Saki zemstvo mud baths, thanks to the initiative of the doctor S. Nalbandov, a museum of the history of mud therapy was founded. During the Great Patriotic War, almost all the exhibits were lost, only a few dozen have survived to this day.

In May 1955, by the decision of local authorities, a museum of the city of Saki was opened, which was the first "resort" in the Soviet Union museum, acted on a voluntary basis. The founder and first director of the museum A. Kosovskaya headed it for 40 years. She collected memorial materials about the famous figures of balneology and medicine, talented researchers of the lake and mud therapy of the 19-20 century. - the outstanding surgeon N. Pirogov, academicians A. Fersman, N. Kurnakov, N. Burdenko, B. Petrov, A. Semashko, as well as celebrities who have been cured by the Saka mud, and the staff of the resort.

Since 1983, the local history museum of the Saki resort has been housed in an old house built in 1912 in the popular at the beginning of the 20th century. modern style. The mansion belonged to I.F.Panov - the head of the Saki salt industry at the beginning of the 20th century. The museum was opened for visitors in 1988

Acquaintance with the collection of the local history museum begins from the ancient period - at that time the ancient Greeks were treated here, as evidenced by the authentic exhibits - pottery, Chersonesus coins, antique anchors, amphorae. The next section of the exposition is devoted to mud therapy in the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century. A separate section of the exposition is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The nature section presents a collection of samples of fauna and flora of the steppe Crimea and the Black Sea. In 2006, an ethnography room was opened under the name "Life and Culture of the Crimean Tatars", which presents samples of household items and national clothes.

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Topic: Local history museum description and photo - Crimea: Saki.