Museums of Karelia showed Old Believers relics at the exhibition in multicultural Vyborg

An interregional seminar was held in Vyborg, where more than 40 museum experts gathered. Within the framework of the event, an exhibition representing 45 exhibits from the collections of the National Museum of Karelia was organized. This was reported in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia.

For two days, museum staff shared their experience and discussed current methods of exhibition and fund activities. In addition, they studied the practices used in the Vyborg United Museum-Reserve and Monrepo Park Museum-Reserve.

At the meeting, the exhibition “Northern Thevaida: Old Believers of Olonets and Vyborg provinces” was opened. The exposition includes 45 items from the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia, as well as exhibits of the Kunstkamera of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Vyborg Museum-Reserve.

The Leningrad Regional State Archive in Vyborg also actively participated in the organization of the exhibition. The seminar discussed the role of museums in the formation of regional identity and the development of the cultural environment. The museums of Karelia and Leningrad region agreed on further cooperation.

Why Vyborg? Perhaps because the city has historically been a border, multicultural space where Finnish, Russian, Swedish and Old Believers traditions intersected. The exhibition about Old Believers in such a place sounds especially interesting: “Vyborg as a meeting point of different worlds”.