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Local Lore Museum: a Brief History of Velikiye Luki

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In the Local Lore Museum of Velikiye Luki you can see what Velikiye Luki Fortress was like and learn how the city was rebuilt from the ruins after the Great Patriotic War. The museum of visual aids, opened in the city in 1919 was the prototype of the present museum. Auxiliary materials on physics, mathematics, geography and other school subjects were prepared in its workshops. Over time, things taken from the landowners’ estates and surrounding monasteries were brought to the museum. The whole old exposition was destroyed during the battles of the Great Patriotic War. In the 1950s the museum was revived as a Local Lore Museum.

Presently the halls of the museum contain archaeological and ethnographic exhibits, photographs and documents, collections of paintings, weapons and coins. Mammoth bones found in the Velikiye Luki region, coins from treasures, a chain armor of an ancient Russian warrior, house peasant utensils, stuffed animals and birds of the Pskov region are on display here. Separate expositions are devoted to the theatrical life of Velikiye Luki in the first Soviet years, the construction of the railway. The most large-scale exhibits include the fortress diorama and the «Soldier’s Dugout» with personal belongings, photographs, letters from front-line soldiers — local residents who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

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