Поликультурный Петербург
проект (9 класс) по теме

1) The State museum of the History of religion is situated near the St. Isaac's Cathedral on 14 Pochtamtskaya street. (Слайд 1)

2) (Слайд 2) Architectural style of museum is similar to Petrine Baroque. The building of museum has beige walls, rounded windows and doors on the first floor and lots of rectangular windows on the rest floors. Throughout the Museum there are pictures on the walls and sculptures. Moreover, some rooms of this museum has special interior. For instance, rooms of Islam have Arabic script on the walls and rooms of Catholicism have stained glass. Most of the rooms have interactive screens and projectors , that give extra interesting information.(Слайд 4)

3) Today the number of the Museum collections is about 250000 of exhibits. Permanent and temporary exhibitions and special museum projects reflect the variety and unity of the spiritual life of humankind. They integrate artifacts of various religions of different countries and people in a single museum space. The Museum has 10 permanent exhibitions: "The Archaic and Primitive Beliefs Department", "Religions of the Ancient World"(Слайд 5), "Judaism"(Слайд 6), "The Origins of Christianity", "The History of the Russian Orthodoxy Department", "The Catholicism Department", "The Protestantism Department", "Religions of the East"(Слайд 8), "The Islam Department", "The Masonic Collection".

4) (Слайд 9) Every time attending this museum, I take a lot of impressions and broaden my outlook. It is impossible to learn all the information that it contains at once. That’s why I return there from time to time and advise you to visit this museum too.