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Copy of the city museum project

Creation period
1912
Place of сreation
Krasnoyarsk, the Russian Empire
Dimensions
210x297 cm
Technique
digital printing from a reproduction of the lost original
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The Krasnoyarsk City Museum (now the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local History) was opened in 1889 and for the first 40 years was located in the house of the Krutovskys’, the house of the Svetlakovs’ and in the building of Gostiny Dvor. By 1912 the museum’s collections had grown four times and it was decided to build a separate building.

The design of the museum in the Egyptian style was proposed by the leading Krasnoyarsk architect Leonid Chernyshev. He based it on his completed project of a scientific pavilion for the First West Siberian Agricultural, Forestry, Trade and Industrial Exhibition, which was held a year earlier in Omsk.

Chernyshev was inspired by the examples of ancient Egyptian architecture when creating the design of the museum. One of the prototypes of the city museum building was the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in Aswan, built around 350 BC. The main and rear facades of the museum are stylized as a pylon — a tower-like structure, a traditional element of the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple.

The architect planned to have a vast hall for 400 people in the center of the museum, similar to the columned halls of ancient Egyptian temples. The adjoining rooms on the second and third floors were intended for museum exhibitions. On the basement floor there were storerooms for collections, a library, an archive, a laboratory, workrooms, and a room for central heating devices.

The cost of the building together with internal equipment and furniture was estimated at 90,000 rubles. The construction of the museum started in the spring of 1914, but the work was interrupted due to the outbreak of the First World War. The museum building without interior decoration was used as a barracks for troops and later as an infirmary for typhus patients. The Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore moved to a new building only in 1930.

In January 1929, the People’s Commissar of Education of the USSR Anatoly Lunacharsky visited Krasnoyarsk and left ambiguous impressions about the new building of the museum in his article “Siberia Coming to Life” in the newspaper “Evening Moscow”:

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The new museum building, quite elegantly built in the Egyptian style and decorated with Egyptian patterns, looks odd in this city. Some inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk marvel and feel puzzled why on the bank of the Yenisey there is a building, moved from the banks of the Nile, and why the regional collections of the vast Krasnoyarsk district should be placed in Egyptian walls. However, there is no great trouble in it. True, it seems that this museum-temple feels a little cold on the grumpy ice of the gray Yenisey, but in general it is still beautiful.

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Copy of the city museum project
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Copy of the city museum project

Creation period
1912
Place of сreation
Krasnoyarsk, the Russian Empire
Dimensions
210x297 cm
Technique
digital printing from a reproduction of the lost original
2
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