"The site without you is just square meters." A Yaroslavl factory intends to manage the museum created by community activists.
The Textil organizing team created a museum on the premises Krasny Perekop factory 11,5 years ago. The factory first raised the rent, then terminated the contract altogether. The factory administration intends to independently manage the museum created by the activists.
"Our work with the museum exhibition is complete. Our research into the industrial heritage of the Yaroslavl Manufactory continues daily, which means there will certainly be new events, meetings, and projects." reported on their page the team "Textiles".
The museum exhibit is located in the former steam engine hall. It displays Soviet textiles produced at the factory in the last century, as well as the machines and raw materials used to make fabric and textiles. There was Here is also “Tereshkova’s corner” – she worked at this factory before it was launched into space.
On weekends, tours of the company's workshops are held, complete with a radio play. The team has promised that these tours will continue.
"The factory wants to run the museum itself. The exhibit remains within the factory walls, a new porch was built last year, and an illuminated sign this year. Just keep working!"» — the team reported.
Subscribers to the VKontakte group expressed regret over the end of the Textil team's work at the museum.
"I'm just indignant. I can't stand the sight of things like this," "How convenient it is to have everything ready-made. They won't be able to do it like you. It'll just be a run-of-the-mill museum," "The site without you is just square footage," — the team's friends said.
Many of them remembered that recently in Yaroslavl closed Another venue for communication and creativity is the art space "Teplo." The organizers have been developing the basement of an old building since the early 2000s, at their own expense.
Photo: from the “Textil” page on VK