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We invite you to take a journey in a time machine!
The museum's history began in 1992 in Rustam Valiakhmetov's photo studio
It was decorated with Soviet items bought at a flea market
Or that were given by friends. Initially, these were simply decorative items
But finally, so many things were collected that when Andrei Makarevich came
To this studio, he proposed to show this to people, to make a museum
They selected this house, which was built in the mid-19th century
(It used to be communal apartments) And placed the museum's exhibition here
The museum's main motto is 'try everything, touch everything, play with everything'
One of the museum's unique items is this leather jacket here
In the USSR, a leather jacket was a special luxury
A father made a leather jacket as a birthday gift for his daughter
To do so, he bought 120 covers to party-membership cards
This is what a membership card looked like. You see written here: CPSU
(Communist Party of the Soviet Union) And he sewed the jacket out of them!
He tried to iron out the impressions, but it didn't work out everywhere
You see "CPSU" right here on the jacket and here, too.
There are a lot of Soviet items whose purpose is not easy to guess
This thing was for gathering berries
You go along the bush, berries fall inside the box and the flap closes
The berries don't fall out which makes gathering berries a lot easier
This strange, iron beetle was used to take off shoes
You put your second foot here, in these pincers, and take your shoe off
There are two rock-and-roll halls of fame in the world. One is in America
Where they host stars like Led Zeppelin, and the other one is here
Besides Soviet rock stars, there are items written by foreign musicians
Our museum is interactive and every Sunday we have concerts here
We have these mini-apartment concerts with upbeat rock-n-roll music
So visitors become audience members at an improvised concert
("Hello, Stalin" was one of the main themes of drawing lessons in the 1940s_
(Soviet women found husbands even in these stockings)
Our museum is completely not politicized
It's a museum of how regular, everyday people lived in the USSR