Attractions Tula Completed student group 1 A Nikolaeva

Attractions Tula Completed student group 1 «A» Nikolaeva Anna

Tula State Museum of Weapons In 1724 at the Tula arms factory according to the order of Pеter I they began to gather old guns, which later became the base of the museum collection. Today this collection is unique - it displays the evolution of arms since the late 16 -th century till the present day. Russian, European and oriental weapons in the museum give a chance to compare achievements of Russian and foreign gunsmiths.

The museum has a large collection of sporting, hunting and decorated arms. The true masterpieces are guns, which were produced and finished in commemoration of the Tsars` visits to the factory. Some of them were displayed at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and were marked with a Big Gold medal.

Among the moden pieces the special fire-arms are of the most interest. They are small-sized submachine-guns, soundless assault-rifles and pistols, underwater weapons, a shooting knife for a scout. The museum also exhibits cannons and machineguns for air-crafts, helicopters, ships and armed-vehicles.

Museum of folk art and crafts At the exhibition "Folk Art of the Tula region" and "Russian Folk Art XIX-early XX centuries" Tula and visitors to our city can see exhibits that represent the traditional crafts of Tula land (Filimonovsky toy Nobel lace and gingerbread samovar production, etc. ), and the magnificent products of craftsmen from other regions of Russia.

Here you can see the unique archaeological sites, which give an idea of the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of the Kremlin in the XVI - XVII centuries.

Tula Exotarium Tula Regional Exotarium - State cultural institution of the Tula region, basic laboratory of the Zoological Institute, cultural, educational, research, conservation tsentr.

Ekzotarium was founded in 1987 and, currently, it assembled the largest collection in the world snakes, with more than 524 species and subspecies. The total number of animal species Tula Zoo has a strong second among zoos Russia. Each year Exotarium attend up to 90 thousand people.

In 1987 came the first in Tula Zoo - Tula Exotarium, whose collection at that time consisted of 120 species of animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, and so on. ). In 1989, next to the entrance there was a statue of a dinosaur - a symbol of expertise on this zoo reptiles.

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