History of Moscow: The exhibition "History of Moscow for children and adults"

December 23, 2016 at the Museum of Moscow is opening the exhibition "History of Moscow for children and adults". The project will present the history of the Moscow region from the Stone Age to the era of Peter I.

""Visual Tutorial" in the history of Moscow will show the history of the capital of more than 2,000 objects from the museum collection. Countdown begins 27 thousand years ago and ends in chronological era of Peter I, when Russia lost its capital status", - says Alina Saprykina, director of the Moscow Museum.

Visitors will learn, when the territory of modern Moscow were the first settlers, see ancient tools and hunting guns, fishing equipment, products made of flint, wood and bone.

The section, devoted to medieval Moscow, will tell how to live, what to wear and what Muscovites were eating, which goods transported to Moscow from Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Middle East, some crafts were held in high esteem. Timeline, which visitors pass to the exhibition, will help to track down the most important events in the life of the medieval city.

A special place in the exposition is devoted to the history of the emergence of the Kremlin. Layouts, presented at the exhibition, will demonstrate how to change the main city fortress from the XII to XV centuries. Visitors will also see the layout of the Kremlin of end of XVI - the beginning of XVII century, made in 1947 by M. V. Gorodtsov to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Moscow.

Shaped series of exhibitions will complement the work of the Moscow expert on history, archeology, artist Apollinaris Vasnetsov, whose paintings depict Moscow of the XII century with a bird's-eye view, the ancient Kremlin by Ivan Kalita and Dmitry Donskoy, the Red Square in the late XVII century.