Exhibition “Beauty and Usefulness. Decorative and Applied Arts of the Tver Region”

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the crafts for which the Tver Governorate was renowned. Embroidered towels, carved ladles, spindles, and folk costumes created by local masters and craftswomen several generations ago — all of these amaze with their beauty and uniqueness and remind visitors that the Tver Governorate is the birthplace of rare and even unique crafts: Torzhok gold embroidery, Kalyazin lace-making, Tver block-printing, and icon painting. On the museum's first floor visitors can see the interior of an icon painter’s house from the late 19th–early 20th century — the workshop and the living quarters. A modern multimedia projection reproduces some stages of the master’s work on an icon, and the collection of objects provides a full picture of the craftsman’s living and working conditions. Replicas of unique antique items are intended for close, detailed examination.