Nizhny Novgorod Intelligentsia Museum

About museum

The Nizhny Novgorod Intelligentsia Museum is the only museum in Russia dedicated to the life and everyday life of the intelligentsia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It is located in the center of Nizhny Novgorod in a house built in 1842. The house changed hands several times: in the 1860s–70s it belonged to the official Petrov D. T., then to the physician Fiveysky M. M., and from 1890 to 1902 to the merchant B. F. Pyatov. The interior, recreated from authentic household items, represents a typical apartment of a non-noble intellectual. Here you can learn a lot about the activities, culture and customs of the Nizhny Novgorod intelligentsia. On the last Thursday of every month the museum hosts themed evenings with representatives of science and the arts. Exhibitions with cultural and entertainment programs for schoolchildren are also organized here. The apartment-museum exhibition includes a living-dining room, a working study, and a maiden's room. They display 19th-century originals — a parlor suite, Viennese chairs, small tables, a sideboard, a writing desk with a secretaire, and a Walther armchair.