"The gold Museum" in Berezovskiy

The exhibition Berezovsky Museum presents more than 5 thousand exhibits, many of them unique. Visitors are surprised by simple and primitive tools workers-miners, with which Russia by the middle of the XIX century became the leader of the world's gold production. The exhibition presents manual machine for washing the gold-bearing sand - cradle, next to him a crank for lifting from the mine gold ore, combs, shovels, drills, rods, tamping sticks and other tools. In the exposition reflected conditions of work and life of workers in the old days. Engineers and workers of the Berezovskiy mine helped the Museum to complete the collection of modern tools for extraction of gold from a jackhammer to pneumatic guns

The value of the gold Museum goes far beyond the local cultural events. The discovery of gold, which occurred in the vicinity of Ekaterinburg on the place of the modern city Berezovskiy in 1745, turned the Russian economy. In Berezovskiy gold was found on 150 years earlier than the Klondike, described by Jack London. And it is the Urals in the XIX century had the world's first gold rush. Bereza field has been incredibly rich and long-lived: during 250 years there were built more than a thousand mines. At the presenttime, there are four.