Exhibitions: “Homecoming. Museum Items – Victims of War” exhibition in Tver

The exhibition “Homecoming. Museum Items - Victims of War” opened in the Tver Region museum on June 20. The exhibition is timed to the Day of memory and grief, which is celebrated on June 22 and the City Day – on June 30.

The exhibition presents a collection of values ​​of the Tver Regional Museum, which was transfrerred from Kalinin to Germany during the Great Patriotic War and in May 2012 returned to their homeland.

The collection features 825 museum objects, and the exhibition presents a big part of them. About half of the collection features religious items. They are 7 icons and small plastic: copper crosses, icons, folding, linings on the Gospel.

Another part features objects of archeology, dating from 7 - 6 millennium B.C. to the XV-XVI centuries A.D. They are stone and bone spear points, arrows, various tools, including axes, hammers of Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture.

Visitors can also see pre-revolutionary and pre-war registers of acquisitions, which survived the enemy occupation, and the books of the 17th volume of “The Master Catalog of cultural values ​​of the Russian Federation, stolen and lost during the Second World War”, which lists the losses of the Tver regional museum and its branches, suffered during the war.