Museums: The Novgorod Museum to complement its exposition with jewelry of pre-revolutionary Russia

The Novgorod State Museum-Reserve almost twice will increase its exposition of jewelry of the pre-revolutionary Russia.

In March of this year the exhibition of masterpieces of Old-Russian jewelry and decorative applied arts of the V-XVII centuries opened in the halls of Palace of Facets of the Kremlin. Here are presented more than 20 religious and secular articles of gold, silver, bone, wood, enamel and precious stones. Among them, in particular, was the world’s famous Sophia panagia, made in 1435.

Currently, it has started the second phase of the project. In the Ioannovsky corps of the Kremlin, located next to the palace of Facets, is supposed to open the exhibition of about 250 items of jewelry and decorative-applied arts from the collection of the NSMR, dated back XVIII-XIX centuries.

It is supposed the new exhibition to be open in December this year.