Memorial Museum-Estate of Academician I. P. Pavlov

About museum

Academician I. P. Pavlov was an outstanding physiologist, an honorary member of 132 academies and scientific societies, an honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge, the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate (1904), and the doyen of physiologists worldwide. In 1946 a museum bearing his name was opened in Ryazan; in 1974 a House of Science was opened there with a scientific exhibition about his discoveries in various fields of physiology. The entire Pavlov estate has now been restored: his parents' house, an income-generating wing, outbuildings, a garden pavilion, a bathhouse, a well, playing areas for gorodki (traditional Russian skittles) and croquet, and swings in the garden. The museum holds 16,776 items, nearly 1,500 of which are exhibited in the museum's halls: the scientist's personal belongings, documents, photographs, and first editions of his works. In 2009 the museum received a diploma of the National Tourism Award named after Y. Senkevich in the category 'Best Regional Museum'. Here visitors can learn about the heritage of the past and trace I. P. Pavlov's path to becoming a classic of the natural sciences.