On the threshold of the International Day of museums, ecological specialists visited the museum "Druzhba narodov" ("Friendship of Peoples") in Baltasi district

Fellow workers of the Northern Territorial Department under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan visited Local history museum "Druzhba narodov" of Baltasi district on the threshold of the International Day of Museums. The tour was held by the Museum founder, the Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Garifzyan Galiev. He told that the museum had been created in 1965 on the basis of a collection of written and physical materials including about 1,000 exhibits. Currently, the museum features more than 5 thousandexhibits. The contemporary museum has 9 exposition halls: the Great Patriotic War, Pre-revolutionary period and the Civil War, as well as the halls of archeology, ethnography, agriculture, nature of the motherland and etc. Ecological specialists paid special attention to the hall 'Nature of the motherland" featuring the exhibits of flora and fauna of the motherland, which allows children and adults to familiarize more vividly with birds, and wild animals inhabiting our territory.   "Quite often we hold at the museum such events as ecological lessons, labor landing troops, class hours in order to promote ecological knowledge and to inform the public on the state of things in terms of the environment.  Indeed,visiting of a museum and holding of such ecological events allows to familiarize a child with the world of nature, form realistic concept and knowledge of various objects and events, foster the ability to see the beauty of nature of the motherland, love, careful and caring attitude to it. Children familiarize with the history of their motherland, its masters, resources, and the wealth of the native land.We should express our gratitude to the founder of the museum Garifzyan Galiev for his long and painstaking service", acknowledged Head of the Northern Department under the Ministry of Ecology, Radik Shagiakhmetov.

                Our country was the first one to start the celebration of the International Day of Museums. It is in Moscow that the conference was held - after that day we started to celebrate May 18th. Since then, the Day of Museums has been celebrated in Russia every year - each time under a new slogan. In 2016, the topic "Museums and sustainable development of the society" was the key topic of the holiday. The aim of the Day of Museums is to turn attention of the society to the spiritual and cultural values that have been recently created or those that have come to us from the very old times.

Press Service of the Ministry