Museum of myths and superstitions of the Russian people is located in Uglich, in the street on 9 January. This museum is a stranger Darya and Alexander Galunov as a creative workshop. To enter your password here you need to know (joking of course): "We are from friends and acquaintances." In this apartment to collect all known in Russia "evil." In autumn 2000, Daria and Alexander, native of St. Petersburg, moved to live in remote places and opened his studio is in an old wooden two-story house. The first visitors of the unique exhibition appeared at the threshold of the workshop-museum on Christmas night 2001.

This home museum housed characters that are familiar to all of the fairy tales and legends. Here you can see Baba Yaga, and the ghoul and vampire and demon; Russian variety of creatures from mythology bird Sirin, field workers, houses, Kikimora. Daria Alien them all made of wax, and a life-size. She sewed dolls costumes, she stuffed a stuffed bird. The appearance of all the characters recreated for legends, books, manuscripts, legend, brought from ethnographic expeditions. Based on all this first sketches were created, and then the figure of those characters who are inspired by our ancient ancestors fear and respect.

The interiors of the rooms where the characters are placed images of folk epic, fully repeated the ancient peasant dwelling. Here you can see all of those attributes, without which it is impossible to imagine the ancient Russian hut. In the hall there are livestock and tools, boxes, like those which were stored reserves, jug, rocker, baskets, plaits, pots, tueski, caskets. There are everywhere - old kitchen utensils, amulets, talismans, bundles of herbs, elegant embroidered towels, brooms, mirrors, spinning wheels, furniture and other things, reminiscent of bygone times.

Stands museum acquaint visitors with the archaeological findings. This diverse collection of long-out-of things related surprises and delights guests of the museum.

The library of the museum you can get acquainted with the articles on local history, scientific and popular scientific works and publications.

In this museum you can make an unusual excursion into the world of folk ceremonies and holidays, learn a lot about ancient gods, beliefs, shamans and wise men, to get acquainted with the ancient esoteric practices, listen transcript fairy tales and legends, to discover a lot of amulets and talismans, omens and methods of healing from various ailments time-tested ways to get acquainted with a number of popular and rare fortune telling. For the ancient Slavs, these beliefs have been part of their lives and gave answers to most questions of existence.

Modern man often interprets as a fairy tale mythology. Nevertheless, even today, we sometimes spit over his left shoulder, knock on wood, we are afraid that a black cat will go our way. This created the hands of creative people Museum helps us to understand why our ancestors all did, where did they come conspiracies, saying, sayings, true stories, it has a museum acquaints visitors with the history of superstitions living in people's memory, the ancient Russian culture, customs, way of life life of the Slavs.