Museum of Matrona of Sebino (Moscow)

About museum

On May 2, 2014, the Museum of Matrona of Sebino (Moscow) was opened in the village of Sebino in the Kimovsk district of Tula Oblast. It became an excellent center of Orthodox culture, as well as an information center for visitors wishing to learn about the life and good deeds of the Blessed Eldress Matrona, about the history of the village of Sebino and the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. The museum was built entirely with charitable funds. The museum's collection comprises more than 300 exhibits: icons, peasant ritual towels (rushnyky), panovy (traditional woven garments), shirts, spinning wheels, woven boxes, chests, cupboards and many other folk art items from the late 19th — early 20th century. The museum complex also includes a monument to Matrona, a rest area, a wayside cross, a marble slab at the entrance to the parish cemetery, the equipped Nikonov homestead with a monument and an icon, as well as enclosed baptismal pools and a spring made of white stone. All of this was constructed with funds from benefactors. The donors' generosity is explained by the fact that Sebino is called the "baptismal font of Russia."