I.V. Michurin House-Museum in Michurinsk

About museum

The Michurin house-museum is located on the grounds of the garden-nursery of the All-Russian Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Fruit Plants named after I. V. Michurin. The Russian biologist and breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin lived there from 1900 to 1935. Today the garden-nursery covers 170 hectares; the remaining land is abandoned. A small suspension bridge spans the Lesnoy Voronezh River in Michurinsk, and bridal parties often like to stroll across it. An idyllic Central Russian landscape opens up before you: glittering water, the green of the shrubs, the steep white steps of the bridge ending at the nursery gates, beyond which stands a small picturesque cottage painted green. But Michurin's house-museum is located deep within the garden-nursery. An asphalt path, densely lined with trees, leads to it. Inside everything is as it was in Michurin's time: furniture, photographs, books, tools, clocks. In the museum all the clocks show the same time — 9:30 — and the wall calendar has not changed its date for many years: June 7, 1935. The grounds around the house are tended by three women who work at the museum.