Hydropower Engineering Museum and “Childhood” park: Physics and Lyrics

The Hydropower Engineering Museum helps to realize how much electricity we spend. This is facilitated by the «Electric Meter» exposition made in the form of a living room: you have only to throw a coin into an interactive layout, and all the devices in the room light up and the meter starts counting watts. The yard of the museum houses an open-air exhibition of aggregates: water turbines, hydraulic pumps and a control pillar.A «Childhood» Park adjoins the museum. It appeared thanks to a touching idea. The city authorities decided to give a seedling to each young family, in which a child was born. If a boy was born, they gave an ash-leaved maple seedling, and in case of a girl — a birch seedling. Young parents planted a tree in a designated area, which gradually filled with trees. So a park appeared. This tradition has become a thing of the past and the park has slightly desolated, but maples, birches and other trees continue to grow.