The exhibition features about 300 authentic exhibits telling about the “Chariot Route”: from a lumberjack to a carpenter, a horse carriage, a blacksmith, a saddler and other specialists who made and equipped the crew. Among them: harness parts, bridle bells, tools of a blacksmith, joiner, carpenter, lumberjack; reconstruction of the resinous production of Tomsk province of the 19th century and the secrets of tar, tar and turpentine manufacture (and most importantly – why all this is vital for the cart?); the tea, traveling in the 19th century along the Siberian Highway from China to Moscow; unique exhibits, such as Charles Louis Chevalier binoculars (Paris, XVIII century), for watching the races at the Tomsk hippodrome; merchandise and commerce items, the atmosphere of a city teahouse and a clerk’s shop, will allow everyone to plunge into the era of the triumph of “horse-drawn carriages”.
Each visitor will admire a real cart. Children will be interested in the magnetic models for assembling the cart, the coloring. The opportunities to activate the exhibits, “ride” on a horse, play shadow theater made the exhibition truly interactive, open and very understandable to people of any age.
The symbol of the city, the Tomsk wooden horse, also went to visit the exhibition. Anyone can get acquainted and take a picture with the famous Tomsk souvenir.
In the photo: Petr Trusov, participant of the Brichkin Way exhibition events, tea sales specialist.
The horse can be found in:
- «Advertising Digest», 1st floor, Gertsena St., 72 b, tel. 52-10-01
- «The First Museum of Slavic Mythology», gift shop, Zagornaya St., 12, tel. 210-333
- «Bridesmaid», a salon for wedding, evening and everyday fashion, a beauty salon, Gogol St., 55, tel. 777-444, 444-777
- «Mosaico Family», a clothing and footwear boutique, Embankment of the river Ushayki St., 10, tel. 51-45-61