Exhibits of the “World of Forgotten Things” museum

About exhibition

The museum presents a composite image of a provincial Vologda house of the 19th century. On the first floor is the exhibition that gave the house its name — “The World of Forgotten Things.” It features representative interiors of a parlor, a nursery, a study, and a dining room. The parlor showcases games for entertaining guests: chess, cards, lotto, and a floral flirtation game. A straight‑strung grand piano, a working gramophone, a German music box, and a harmonium tell of the culture of musical evenings at home. The main attraction of the nursery is the installation “Sonechka’s Little House,” and the nursery walls are decorated with silhouettes by Elizaveta Bem. The study exhibition is devoted to the writer associated with the Narodnik movement, Pavel Zasodimsky. The dining room displays buffets with tableware, a “centipede” table, porcelain, unusual utensils, ladies’ inkwells, and many other household items and everyday objects of the 19th century. On the second floor is the exhibition “The History of Vologda Portraiture of the 18th–19th Centuries” drawn from the noble estates of the Vologda Governorate. One of the outstanding artists represented in the exhibition is Platon Semyonovich Tyurin, known as an “academic of portrait painting.” On the third floor is the exhibition “K. N. Batyushkov. Pages of Life,” dedicated to one of Vologda’s most famous residents, a participant in the War of 1812, a poet and friend of A. S. Pushkin. It houses documents, autographs, drawings, and objects that recount the poet’s difficult life path.