Arriving in Nizhny Novgorod, be sure to visit the museums, in which you will learn the history and culture of the region, as well as interesting facts about all the famous things. Among the museums of the city can find themselves something interesting and an adult, and a child.
Museum "House of Christmas toys"
In autumn 2013, the famous "Ariel" factory in Nizhny Novgorod opened the museum "The house of the Christmas tree". In the wooden house, built in the Russian folk style, the history of Nizhny Novgorod Christmas tree toys is presented, beginning in 1936. During the tour you will not only see the work of glassblowers and artists, but you will be able to decorate your Christmas decoration yourself.
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Museum of steam locomotives in Nizhny Novgorod
A very interesting and unusual museum in Nizhny Novgorod is the museum "Steam locomotives of Russia". Here, in the open air, there are 14 old cargo and passenger locomotives, assembled from all the country's railways, which can be visited and climbed.
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Museum of Architecture and Life of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region
On the territory of the forest park Shchelkovsky farm of Nizhny Novgorod there is a museum of wooden architecture that will take you to the village of Zavolzh in the late 18th - first half of the 19th century: peasant wooden houses with restored original interiors decorated with carvings, outbuildings, mills and churches. Here, even folk festivities take place for the holidays.
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Museum of Physics of Nizhny Novgorod
The first interactive scientific and educational museum "Sunny City" or a museum of entertaining physics was opened in May 2012 in the shopping center "Sokol" in Nizhny Novgorod. It causes interest among schoolchildren and even their parents, as all the exhibits of the museum can and should be touched, collected, disassembled.
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Museum of entertaining sciences "Quarks" in Nizhny Novgorod
In November 2013 the Museum of Entertaining Sciences "Kvarki" was opened - it is a unique space that popularizes science. On an area of 1600 m2 there are more than a hundred exhibits that introduce visitors to different natural phenomena and examples of the use of nature forces by man.
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Dobrolyubov Museum in Nizhny Novgorod
In Nizhny Novgorod is the only museum in the world of literary critic and publicist NA. Dobrolyubova. The museum is located in two buildings belonging to the Dobrolyubov family: in the wing since 1971 a memorial exhibition has been opened, and in the apartment house there is a historical and literary one, opened in 1986, there are also exhibition halls.
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Museum of Photography in Nizhny Novgorod
After walking through the streets of Nizhny Novgorod, you should take a look at the excursion to the small photography museum, where you can see what the city was like before from photographs. Also worth a visit is an exhibition of cameras made in the early 19th century, lenses, and various devices for shooting and making photographs. In the museum there are exhibitions and modern photographs.
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Museum of Fine Arts of Veliky Novgorod
In the building of the Noble Assembly in the center of Nizhny Novgorod since 2001 there is a museum of fine arts in which you can get acquainted with the history of Russian art of the 18-20th centuries. on collections of painting, drawing and sculpture. Here the works of Russian portraiture artists AP are kept. Antropova, D.G. Levitsky, seascapes Aivazovsky, landscapes of II. Shishkin, "landscapes of mood" II. Levitan, as well as the work of other outstanding artists of Russia. In total there are more than 6 thousand exhibits.
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Local Lore Museum of Nizhny Novgorod
The Museum of Local Lore is located in the mansion of the merchant Rukavishnikov on the Verkhne-Volzhskaya embankment of Nizhny Novgorod. Since 1877, after reconstruction, the Rukavishnikov Manor became the most famous house in the city. In 2010, the doors of the museum in the Rukavishnikov Manor were reopened after 16 years of restoration. The building is decorated with stucco, the balcony of the 2nd floor is supported by the Atlanteans, window frames are occupied by high-relief figures of the caryatids, a courtyard with a fountain and a veranda, and inside - an expensive interior and decorated with stucco walls and ceilings.
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Interesting museums are famous for other cities, for example, Tula and Odessa .