The stone Museum in Fershampenuaz and its exhibits

People living in the world of gems without paying to them attention and showing interest. Only experts know what is this “lifeless” is a kind of matter that has its own history of birth, development and death.

Until now, scientists cannot draw a clear border between the animate and inanimate nature, but for the organizer of the Museum of stones in the Chelyabinsk region, the answer is clear: the stones are alive.

The Museum

The enthusiasts kept and developed world. Alexander Matora is one of them. The love of stones, their study and gathering became the vocation of his life. It pushed him to look again and again new places with his unknown deposits of stones.

Thus, Alexander Maksimovich went from Nizhny Tagil to Orsk, its stones come from the Magadan region and Kazakhstan, Bashkiria and the Kola Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Moscow region. The stone Museum in Fershampenuaz, open thanks to his enthusiasm and rock collection has become a landmark of the entire region.

The Museum is divided into compositions, some of which are located under the open sky in the yard of a two story house and the others in the building. It's not only stones, but also crafts from them, all the exhibits have their own history, and the founder of the Museum happily tells them to curious tourists.

Every inhabitant of the Chelyabinsk region knows where the Museum is of stone, and is proud of it. To visit the Museum, you can apply to a travel Agency or contact the Alexander Maksimovic and agree on the day and time of the visit.

The Museum's Exhibits. Malachite and lapis lazuli

Among the exhibits presented by the Museum under the open sky, there are precious, semi-precious stones and fossils. Most of the collection consists of instances found by the organizer of the Museum personally in his expeditions.

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In the courtyard of the Museum it seems that the stones laid in the exposition chaotic. In fact, they are all arranged so that moving from one “stone” roller coaster to another, you can learn not only the history of rocks on our planet, but also how old they are where they were before their “home”.

Inside the Museum are exhibits that have the greatest value in the collection as well as artifacts from the stone. For example, malachite. It was mined in Ancient Egypt, the priests who prepared the powders for different potions and charms for children.

Today, malachite is one of the most beautiful semi-precious stones, as the diversity of its textures never ceases to amaze masters who make him beads, jewelry boxes, amulets and figurines of animals.

Another representative of the stones that boasts a stone Museum in Fershampenuaz is lazurite, a mineral, absorbed, it would seem that all shades of blue. In Ancient India, where it began to produce 7,000 years ago, the mineral is called the heavenly stone, is able to cleanse the human aura.

Lapis lazuli has Long been recommended as a talisman for those who started their first life, changing it radically from “scratch”. Malachite and lapis lazuli, displayed in the Museum, were brought from Bashkortostan.

Grenade

Due to its exhibits, this place falls into the category of "museums of precious stones." For example, there are among the Museum items of the blood-red garnet, beloved and cherished by all jewelers in the world stone.

The name he got similarity with the Phoenician Apple-pomegranate. This mineral is known and revered since ancient times, and he attributed the properties to attract love and passion. For warriors it was a symbol of valor and defender on the battlefield.

It was Believed that garnet does not like the miser and traitors, so who wore it people were regarded as honest people and loyal friends. If garnet is literally "burned" red it is said that his owner were passionate or in love. The stone Museum in Fershampenuaz is these blood-red minerals from the Kola Peninsula.

Another representative of this class – black grenades. In ancient times, people believed that they can be used to communicate with the souls of the dead, so they are often worn by priests and mediums. In Museum black grenades came from the Maritime provinces.

Turquoise

The stone Museum in Fershampenuaz proud to present the gemstone turquoise. Unfortunately, this mineral is often counterfeited, it was shown by Georgius Agricola (the great chemist, known as Georg Bauer) in 1546.

Turquoise is considered a stone of good fortune in love and wealth. The merchants wore turquoise rings to wean itself from failure in business, and women of the East was closing her up in the clothes of a man whose attention I wanted to attract. Also turquoise is used in jewelry brides from Asia and the Caucasus.

In ancient times it was customary to ascribe the turquoise property to change its color, if the person was sick. It was used as a kind of diagnosis of the body.

This mineral has the ability to change colour under the influence of sunlight, hitting him fat, but people believed that this is because the fading love.

Turquoise, presented in the Museum come from Turkmenistan.

Iceland spar

Another amazing mineral that is represented in the Museum of stones, is Iceland spar. He has a wonderful ability to refract a ray of sunlight and split it into two light waves. Due to this property the translucent stone used in ancient times by the Vikings to navigate by the sun in cloudy weather.

Nowadays it is used to create optical devices, and in the Museum he came from Tours, the village in the Krasnoyarsk region.

Music stones

This is not an unusual Museum. The organizer believes that the rocks are frozen music and each of them has its own melody. To “hear” it is enough to visit the Museum of stones (the address: street of Builders, 7, the village Fershampenuaz). Alexander Matora tells the story of each exhibit so that seems like it sounds a beautiful Symphony of nature.