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The Vladimir museum was founded in 1854 by the Vladimir Gubernia Statistics committee on the initiative of its secretary K. Tikhonravov. At first, it had no building of its own. It was built in 1900-1903 according to a design of architect P.Begen. The museum was open in 1906. Local historians A.Smirnov, I.Golyshev, N.Artleben played a great role in the formation of the museum collections. The collections of the antiques' repository of St Alexandre Nevsky Brotherhood and the museums of the Sibirsky and Malorossiysky regiments, quartered in Vladimir came to the museum after 1917. Works of art from the nationalized gentry estates and closed-down monasteries also became a part of the museum.
Composition of the museum collections (on October, 1, 2006) are 438 365 items.
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