Exhibition "Family Heirlooms of Merchant-Industrialists. 19th Century"

About exhibition

In the exhibition hall "Family Heirlooms of Merchant-Industrialists" you can immerse yourself in the atmosphere of an old county town. You will learn what entrepreneurs of the late 19th–early 20th centuries were like, what they did and how they lived, and how they accumulated capital. The exhibition features authentic items from private collections of Russian merchant-industrial families. You will become acquainted with the trends of a bygone era, lifestyles, traditions of courtship and social interaction among young people, fashionable ladies' accessories, and the rules of etiquette at social soirées.