Museum-reserve "Ancient Ufa" presented exhibits in new format

In the building of the "Russia - My History" historical park, the next exhibition "I Know Ufa" of the Republican Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve "Ancient Ufa" has opened. The event is held as part of the historical and cultural project "I Know Ufa", the winner of the presidential grant.

At the exhibition, the museum staff showed the everyday life of a medieval city resident. They presented the most interesting artifacts found during excavations of the archeological monument "Ufa-II Settlement".

"For the first time, the Museum-Reserve "Ancient Ufa" presented a copy of the bronze pendant of the VI-VII centuries "Aigir" made on special enlarged scale 1: 5," said the director of the museum Gaukhar Battalova to the Bashinform News Agency.

The second, no less peculiar exhibit was a copy of a fragment of a charred birchbark box of the 12th-13th centuries, made on a 1: 1 scale. Analogs of such boxes were found in Novgorod, Rostov-Yaroslavsky, Khanty-Mansiysk. More recently, the museum item underwent restoration in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore under the guidance of the 1st category restorer Irina Karacharova. Work on the restoration of museum items has just begun, they will continue.

Within the framework of the "I Know Ufa" project, the staff of the "Ancient Ufa" museum held 30 meetings in 10 educational institutions of Ufa in just two months.

Soon, within the framework of the "I Know Ufa" project, a plein-air painting will take place among art schools of the capital, in the autumn the historical festival "Ancient Ufa", workshops on medieval crafts, an exhibition of artifacts, a quest and other events will be held, the museum said.