From an Atom to the Star in the Museum of the Sun
A small private Museum of the Sun in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok is dedicated to the solar cults in different societies. Novosibirsk nuclear physicist Valery Lipenkov, being engaged in a wood carving group, started to cut out images of Sun gods of different countries and was carried away by enthusiasm so much that he has built a large collection.
The Museum of the Sun, opened in 1992, contains Lipenkov’s works, artifacts and reconstruction of objects of the Sun cult from ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, Nepal, South America and Mesoamerica. Here you can find a sun clock, petroglyphs and ceremonial masks. Currency notes and flags of the countries remind of the existence of solar symbols in the modern world. Tourists are greatly interested in solar talismans and amulets. Particular attention in the museum is paid to the old Slavic traditions, in particular, to the holiday of Ivan Kupala, when a special program is organized.
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