Concept of the Museum of Flat Irons

“The Concept of the Museum of Flat Irons in Pereslavl-Zalessky” is a diploma project that needed complex preparatory visual research on private museums of the ancient towns of Central Russia with common historical and cultural background. The author analyzed the information on 27 private museums located in the buildings of XVII – early XX century in Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Kostroma and Moscow region, explored principles of their organization and structure, perspectives of their development, the correlation between the theme of an exposition based on household and culture items, crafts of different epochs and the historical and architectural background of the building. During her expeditions to Pereslavl-Zalessky, Kolomna, Vladimir, Uglich the author made her own photos, studied materials of the local museums and the documents acquired at the office of the chief architect of Pereslavl-Zalessky. This study embodied in the “The Guidebook on the Golden Ring Towns Private Museums” – unique for the region. And finally, helped to properly approach the reconstruction of the Museum of Flat Irons in the context of the architectural ensemble of the old town center of Pereslavl-Zalessky suggesting the original design concept of both the building and the museum exposition.