Peshelansky Museum of Mining, Geology and Speleology
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Museum of Mining, Geology and Speleology is located in the Peshelanskogo gypsum plant in Arzamaskom area. The current mine, at a depth of more than seventy meters are seven halls with expositions. To visit the museum (only in the group) give the tourists a helmet, a jacket and a flashlight, as mine always cold (the temperature does not rise above 5 degrees) and humid.

In the first room guarded by a plaster mountain mistress a unique collection of samples of rocks and minerals mined in Russia and CIS countries (more than 300 copies). Further, in the depths of the subsoil is an underground lake with a small waterfall, shungit relaxation room, a hall with an exhibition of handicrafts and other items relating to mining, surrounded Paleolithic cave paintings, dolls dummy fairy-tale characters and dinosaurs from the "lost world". The exhibition dedicated to the history of mining, includes mining equipment, machinery for loading rock samples of horse carts and trucks loaded with stones. In one of the halls are built stereoscopes to view three-dimensional images of different caves. At the end of the tour the most courageous offer to visit the "cave of fear."

This is an impressive and very unusual museum. For young children (in the museum, there are age restrictions) on the shaft is a small zoo with llamas, ostriches, donkeys, lynx, foxes, and camels. Also at the plant can see the exhibition hall folk arts and crafts area.

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