Exhibition «Temryuk – Port City»

About exhibition

The exhibition displays museum collections and items from the holdings of the Temryuk Museum: navigational instruments, a diving suit, models, a helm, and an anchor. The history of navigation is told by a helm used to control a boat, an anchor, a ship's wheel, and models of a frigate and a half-galley. Of particular interest is a mid-20th-century diving suit. Such suits were used for deep dives. It is especially notable that it is shown complete in the exhibition: it consists of the helmet, the suit itself, and boots. The navigational instruments will be of interest both to people involved in shipping and to other museum visitors. The exhibition includes a protractor-ruler, a binnacle for a ship's compass, a Morse code key, binoculars, a sextant, an inclinometer, and an anemometer. The collection of nautical knots is particularly interesting. Eighty-five percent of the exhibition is composed of items from the museum’s research and auxiliary holdings. The exhibits have historical and cultural value; many of them are unique and have no equivalents in other museums in the district.