Kamensky museum of arts and crafts and folk art - a place where you can get to know the creative heritage of the Don Cossacks, touch the roots of the culture and life of the Cossacks, to familiarize with their products and crafts. The museum is located at Prospect. Karl Marx, 56, in the center of Kamensk-Rostov region.
Initially, the two-storey building with a high foundation located historical museum, opened April 19, 1969 The building itself, like a big Cossack hut belonged to Cossack Colonel Peter Mikhailov. In 1918 it housed the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Cossacks Fyodor Podtyolkov. The building received the status of a monument of history.
In 2003, the museum was renamed the "Kamensky museum of arts and crafts and folk art", becoming the only museum of such specialization in the field of . 30 thousand exhibits fill the halls and storage of cultural institutions . His exposition of folk arts and crafts enriched with finds from the surrounding town of 36 villages and hamlets . On the ground floor of the museum archaeological collection and several dioramas dedicated to the animal world of steppes, marshes and ponds edge . Exhibits on the second floor devoted to the history of the Don Cossacks, the village of Kamenka, the revolutionary time period of the Great Patriotic War . Exhibition Pavilion, built in 2008, . , Filled collection of decorative themes . The stands can be seen weapons, ethnographic findings, a collection of coins and awards, original documents and photographs, sculptures, drawings and paintings . There are unique silver and leather . Pearl collection of paintings - painting artist I . Minchenkova called "Harvest" .
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