V.I. Klipel Museum and Exhibition Center

About museum

For ten years a long-term project "Creating a District Local History Museum" has been implemented in the Smidovich district. After the war, the first People's Museum in the Russian Far East operated in the settlement of Smidovich, but it was lost in the 1990s. In 2010, activists from the museum at Secondary School No. 3 in Smidovich appealed to the head of the district with the idea of restoring the district museum. Since 2015 the museum has borne the name of the famous writer and fellow countryman Vladimir Ivanovich Klipel.
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\r\nVarious events take place at the V.I. Klipel Museum and Exhibition Center: tours, veterans' cafés, local history lessons for schoolchildren, literary salons, and environmental and patriotic initiatives. Another interesting form of activity has been master classes, such as "Tableware of the Amur Jurchen Tribes" and "Jewish Culture." Schoolchildren gladly participate in the "Tableware of the Amur Jurchen Tribes" master class: first they listen to a talk about the culture of the ancient tribes that lived in the area in the Middle Ages. Then, using pictures, they learn the names of objects: a clay ring, iron arrowheads, a buckle, an armor plate, an iron hook. Next they study the clay pottery of the Pokrovskaya culture in the exhibition, and then the most interesting part — on the potter's wheel boys and girls create their own clay items and decorate them.
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\r\nIn 2022 the museum was awarded a Certificate of Honor by the Club of Military Commanders of the Russian Federation.