Museum of nomadic culture

The Museum of Nomadic Culture in Moscow is one of the interactive museums that are now gaining well-deserved popularity. Here, visitors not only passively get acquainted with the exhibits, they are actively involved in the process.  And the combination of theory and practice has always been better absorbed and much more interesting.

History of the creation of the exposition

The museum was created by a geography teacher, traveler and writer Konstantin Kuksin  and is located on the territory of an ordinary Moscow school No. 1321, where he taught. This happened after his three-month trip to Mongolia and life in the camp of nomads. Emotions so overwhelmed Konstantin that he wanted to share them with the rest and organized a museum on the territory of his school: especially since he brought a Mongolian yurt with him. She was installed here.

Kuksin developed the concept and assembled a team of like-minded people: they equipped the yurt with simple belongings and began to organize excursions, which suddenly became popular. The team gradually grew, and the museum began to expand: new exhibits are brought to remote corners of our planet from annual ethnographic expeditions.

Museum exposition

During such travels, scientists actively participate in the fate of nomadic peoples: they live together with them, study customs, mores, way of life and habits. The main goal of any expedition is the acquisition and placement of a national dwelling in which an authentic interior is reproduced. Now on the territory of the school there are 20 national dwellings of 14 nomadic peoples: yarangas, wagons, tips, even a khan's yurt and much more.

After installation, an interactive tour program is developed. Its essence is simple: visitors, as it were, come to visit a family of nomads and begin to get to know them. All exhibits and utensils are authentic: you can use them - try on national clothes, listen to the sounds of a real shaman tambourine, lie down on deer skins, try tea with milk in a Mongolian yurt. And learn about the rules of behavior in some dwellings that differ from the usual ones: girls - to the right, boys - to the left. You can't often enter someone else's half.
 
And most importantly - enjoy the unusual interior, breathe in the smells of smoke, admire the colors of the carpets: and all this - in the natural twilight. And where else can you see the Khan's yurt from the inside? And hardly anyone will be able to visit an Indian tipi.

A 2-hour tour is led by guides who have personally been on expeditions. For authenticity, everyone is dressed in national costumes. The process is surprisingly interesting and exciting. After some excursions, there is an opportunity to shoot from a bow: and no one will refuse this either. And, of course, buy the most interesting books by Konstantin Kuksin: they are distinguished by a good style and excellent presentation of the material.

More about excursions

The museum is located near the Aviamotornaya metro station: st. Aviamotornaya, 30, building A. Visitors are offered three types of programs: ethnographic and historical interactive excursions and religious lectures. Registration - by the specified phone number.

Everything is interesting, active and creative. And definitely worth a try!