Russian museums .Tula State Museum of Weapons

Russian museums .Tula State Museum of Weapons The Tula State Museum of Weapons is one of the oldest museums in Russia. The museum has a valuable collection of firearms and bladed weapons of both domestic and foreign production. Its uniqueness lies in the ability to trace the stages of development of weapons in the context of the history of society, to find out how design ideas were formed and developed, and also to focus on man as the creator of weapons. The museum fund includes collections of combat muzzle-loading, automatic, sporting, hunting weapons, artillery, numismatics and covers the history of the development of arms production in Russia since the 16th century. The new permanent exhibition of the museum "The history of small arms and cold weapons from the XIV century to the present" is housed in a building unique in its architecture in the form of a heroic helmet of an ancient Russian warrior. The building is located in a historical place where the Kuznetskaya Sloboda was previously located. The exposition widely uses the latest multimedia complexes (video walls, interactive game and educational complexes "Narrator", "Life outside the window", "Encyclopedia of weapons", holographic showcases, electronic labels). In the peripheral part of the halls there are installations that, in combination with projection screens, provide the effect of presence, for example, in the workshop of a 19th century arms factory or in the trench of the First World War. The exposition...