Chyomy Museum

About museum

'A museum about how a sea was built in Siberia.'

The 'Chyomy' Museum is a branch of the 'Museum of Novosibirsk'.
The museum's main exhibition is devoted to the period of construction of the Novosibirsk Hydroelectric Power Plant (1950–1961) and what existed before it.
 
In the permanent exhibition you can find:
• long-forgotten household items from the villages that stood where the HPP now is;
• unique photographs and press from the construction period;
• a 1950 map that does not yet show the Ob Reservoir;
• a 1948 map marking the planned flood zone;
• household items from the Soviet period (1950s–1980s);
• deep-water equipment used by the HPP divers until 2000.

On the interactive screen you will see:
•    archival documentary films from the time of the Novosibirsk HPP construction;
•    archival photographs of the construction and the birth of the Levye Chyomy neighborhood; 
•    a bound volume of the newspaper 'Na Stroyke' from 1957.

The museum has opened 'Diazal', where you can recall your childhood and show your children favorite filmstrips. The museum's collection contains more than 200 filmstrips.

The temporary exhibition hosts interesting shows on various topics twice a year.

The museum is open to both individual visitors and groups.

For groups we offer themed events and guided tours:
•    museum tour 'Who Built Our Sea';
•    museum tour 'The World of Amazing Things';
•    a walking tour along the embankment 'How They Built the Sea'; 
•    interactive programs for kindergartens and primary schools on various topics;
•    museum-methodological lessons for schoolchildren (local history, patriotic education);
•    guided tours by prior arrangement for groups of all ages.