Visited the Soviet Apartment Museum, but many still live like this
A few days ago I visited the old Ural town, which is famous for its wonderful sights. One of them is the Museum of Art and Local Lore, in which the exposition "Soviet apartment" is arranged. The exposition is huge, it consists of two rooms, a kitchen and an entrance hall. Honestly, this is a chic place to which you want to return again and again.
The museum staff are real artists who greet the excursion like guests who have come to them for a housewarming party. They tell dear guests about their apartment, show all the rooms, explain how it was bought, what it is for and how it is used. The performance is attended by an old grandmother, her daughter-in-law and grandfather, who depict Soviet people with their characters, concerns and peculiarities.
The apartment contains such things that each of us had in childhood, which are dear to us, like the memory of our parents, grandfathers and grandmothers. One room - grandmother's, in it things are more ancient, from the early USSR. And the room combines a later period - with a sideboard and a TV.
On the walls are carpets with deer, metal embossings, magazine clippings.
On the table by the armchair is a table lamp, Soviet-era newspapers and the 1976 Ogonyok magazine. An elderly museum employee sitting next to him, wearing horn-rimmed glasses, a plaid shirt and sweatpants, looks like an exhibit himself. And when he begins to speak, shamelessly “okay” and pronouncing words with the Ural dialect, then one just wants to go up to grandfather and press his head to his knees, as in childhood to his father’s knees.
Everyone can touch and take a closer look at the exhibits, see photographs in a slidescope-ball.
On the pier glass in bottles - the real perfume "Krasnaya Moskva", who knows how to retain its aroma for more than 50 years.
The records in the turntable with old songs, although they wheeze, perfectly convey the atmosphere of our youth, when we listened only to vinyl.
The girls' uniforms are made of real wool, soft and pleasant to the touch. White and black apron, collars. How cute and beautiful it is! Childhood, school, favorite teachers and friends are immediately remembered.
The bed in the grandmother's room with a lace cape, bedspread and napkins are hand-embroidered. How cute and familiar to everyone!
But in general, the situation in the apartment, of course, is strikingly different from the one in which we live now.
Although it is worth noting that many people live the same way, or even poorer than an apartment decorated in a museum. First of all, these are, of course, rural pensioners, collective farmers, who have very small pensions. They have no idea that they can change furniture or buy an expensive refrigerator. Therefore, their houses have the same deer on the walls and knitted napkins on the chests of drawers and bedside tables. Why would they change something? Better they will spend money on gifts for grandchildren and children.