In the forthcoming year 2025, the Museum of the History of Faith in Cherdyn will celebrate its 25th anniversary. It is the first museum in the Urals dedicated to the Christianization of Great Perm and Siberia. The Museum of the History of Faith is part of the Cherdyn Local History Museum named after A.S. Pushkin, which turned 125 this year. At the start of the anniversary program the first-floor reinstallation was carried out and the exhibition 'The Wandering Church' was opened. The previous exhibition had not changed for 24 years. The final point of the anniversary program in the outgoing year will be the transformation of the second floor.
Exhibition 'The Wandering Church', 1st floor of the Museum of the History of Faith
On December 19 at 3:00 p.m. the opening of the first phase of the exhibition 'Church Art of Northern Prikamye' will take place. The exhibits presented in the exhibition tell about family icons, icons made using rare materials and rare iconography, as well as icons dedicated to significant events in the history of the Russian state. This is the first part of the exhibition, and its thematic center is the family. In the 'Year of the Family' the museum considers it important to speak specifically about family traditions in icon painting. The family is the spiritual and social center of life for the people of Cherdyn. The veneration and preservation of family traditions are demonstrated in objects of all types of church art; it is especially vividly manifested in commissioned church and household icons of saints bearing the same names as family members.
Fragment of the exhibition 'Church Art of Northern Prikamye', 2nd floor of the Museum of the History of Faith.
For the first time to the general public the icon 'Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia' will be presented, transferred to the museum for temporary display from the private collection of Mikhail Korinenko. The icon is unique in that this copy of the wonderworking icon was painted in Fedoseev's workshop in the village of Pokcha in 1882 from the original. On the lower field of the icon there is an inscription: 'True image, likeness and measure from the wonderworking image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, located in the church in the village of Nyrob. Painted on April 15, 1882.' At present the original icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is lost.
Icon 'Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia'
The Cherdyn Museum tells the story of the church art of Great Perm and Cherdyn as an original phenomenon that emerged at the meeting point of Christianity and paganism, at the site of the baptism of the Parma people — in Cherdyn. The opening of the second part of the exhibition is planned for March 2025, and it will present other types of church art — gold-thread embroidery, metalwork/jewelry, needlework (embroidery), carving, and sculpture.
Fragment of the exhibition 'Church Art of Northern Prikamye', 2nd floor of the Museum of the History of Faith.
