Hollywood museum in Volga area
The founders of the famous companies Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer and XX Century Fox, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck were born in a village near Rybinsk. Their father was a clerk at the local shipping company, Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily said.
The museum was founded by the regional public organization Slovo i Delo (Word and Deed) and financed by local businessmen.
According to Slovo i Delo chairman Andrei Rodin, the museum is the first step towards the establishment of a film studio in Rybinsk.
The museum has a rare Hollywood album with portraits of movie stars published in the middle of the 20th century. It also boasts a stereoscope made in 1901, archive photographs, portraits of the Schenck brothers, a plan of Hollywood, a Zinger sewing machine, an old iron, etc.
Among the exhibits are shots from Russian movies which were made in Rybinsk.
This is already the second exotic museum in this small town. "The Nobels and Nobel movement" museum opened in the former office of the Nobel Brothers Petroleum Partnership last summer. Among the exhibits is a safe of petroleum magnates. Alfred Nobel who gave his name to an international prize is the most famous of them. However, it was his elder brother Robert who founded a partnership in Russia and built oil storages on the banks of the Volga River, particularly, in Rybinsk. The Nobels also built a dockyard there.