For many years, museums around the world have kept in their halls a unique collection of rare items that belong either to the state, or to individuals, or collectors. Naturally, such rarities, which have already seen a lot in their lifetime, have also accumulated the strongest human emotions during the period of being on public display, which could not but affect the aura of the museum halls.
In addition, the museums also store memorial artifacts - memorabilia, antiques, documents, photographs, materials from archaeological excavations, extracted from ancient burials or as a result of the restoration of the appearance of cities and settlements. Collected in a single collection, they form a powerful energy background from the accumulated human energy.
This fully applies to art galleries, where any painting or sculpture inspired by the name of the author and the original image, against our will, acquires the features of a living personality. In this respect, an interesting image from Pavel Kalmykov's story "School of Wise Rulers" explains the effect of the picture's perception. A character in the story copying old portraits says: “Aren't the portraits ghosts? The man is no longer in the world, but he looks at you with sadness, smiles or asserts his power."
At the lexical level, such a perception of a thing manifests itself in a very peculiar way. For example, when the old museum curators utter phrases such as “Rokotov broke off” or “Shishkin was distorted”, obviously, the object is animated, the properties of not only a living, but also a rational being are transferred to it. At the same time, museum workers seriously assert that paintings or things themselves determine their place in the halls.
After dismantling the exhibition and returning to storage, they "never want to stay where they were." Apparently, it is their acquisition of a new "exposition experience" or they "liked being at the exhibition so much that they do not want to return to their place." And although any exhibitor can explain this fact by the laws of proportionality, aesthetics and the peculiarities of human perception, in the jargon of a museum worker, an exhibit will be endowed with certain "character traits."
Each curator of paintings or other exhibits firmly believes that "things are the owners of the museum, and we are their servants." And as owners, they acquire individual characters and the ability to manifest these characters. Probably, this explains the inevitability and regularity of the anthropomorphism of things in the museum system. Therefore, portraits can come to life, mummies can move, things can move and live a separate life, regardless of the museum and exhibition space.
Another thing is known: any person among the multitude of museum items or in the fund depository experiences special feelings. Some do not feel very comfortable and try to leave the premises. But if the exhibits at the energy level "recognize" their keeper in a person, he will inevitably have a state of peace.
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And this is far from the only phenomenon. Many museums have "something" that can be called a spirit, ghost, or phantom. Sometimes these entities are associated with the items of the collection, and sometimes they are completely independent. It happens that in the museum there is some invisible, but even physically felt entity with a very absurd character, who likes to frighten people, sometimes completely unexpectedly and even surreptitiously.
Many visitors and museum workers came across it in one way or another. At such moments, a person in an empty corridor felt a tight stream of air, as if someone flew past with incredible speed.
Many museums have their own ghosts. In any case, this is what their employees and regular visitors assure. From some you can hear stories about incomprehensible phenomena, from others - that they have heard or even observed phantom aliens with their own eyes. It is possible that ghosts are attracted by the quiet, somewhat mysterious museum atmosphere, which fosters a mystical mood.
"Ghost" stories from museums
More than one film has been made about what can happen in museums at night: "The Phantom of the Louvre", "Night at the Museum", "Night at the Museum-2". Of course, their plots are the imagination of the authors. But not only. Strange things do happen in museums at night, scientifically inexplicable and yet quite real. And we are not talking about the popular night excursions of late, but about strange phenomena and visitors.
Scientists, so as not to be accused of obscurantism, comment on such facts reluctantly, or even completely deny. But if you manage to get the old women caretakers to talk, you can hear a lot of interesting things. The palm in museum ghosts, however, as in ghosts in general, is held by Great Britain (the absolute record holder for the number of ghosts per capita) and the Czech Republic, more precisely, its capital Prague.
In the countries of the former USSR, there are also many legends about museum ghosts. For example, employees of the Maxim Gorky apartment-museum in Nizhny Novgorod seriously believe that the ghost of the late writer lives there. True, no one saw him, but at night you can hear someone walking up the stairs. Sometimes furnishings and books move by themselves to other places.
This happens especially often with a bouquet of wildflowers, which the writer presented to his wife, Ekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova. Night watchmen, frightened by an incomprehensible noise, often called the Ministry of Emergency Situations and riot police. But rescue services could not neutralize the invisible troublemaker.
Most often, the ghost misbehaves on the days of various solemn events that are held in honor of the proletarian writer. Nizhny Novgorod parapsychologist Eduard Yermilov believes that these days the museum is visited by many people who feed the ghost with memories of Maxim Gorky.
In addition, the museum has many personal belongings of the writer, which have preserved the memory of him. As noted by the researcher, it is not worth fighting with a poltergeist, because with too much interest, it can pose a danger to people. It is better to leave everything unchanged and come to terms with the appearance of an otherworldly entity.
The next story is related to the Alexander Pushkin Museum, which was opened in Gurzuf in 1989. Within a month and a half, an exhibition was created in a completely empty building, which some time ago was a hydrotherapy center of a nearby sanatorium, telling about the poet's stay in Crimea. And in early June, on his birthday, the museum was inaugurated.
And after a short time the night guards began to complain that at night on the second floor of the building … someone was walking. Moreover, he walks loudly enough, but at the same time the alarm, which should react to strangers, does not work. Moreover, sticky jam stains and wet marks from a cup of tea were found on one of the work tables. Everyone was at a loss: who could drink tea in an office locked at night and turned over to the security console?
Despite the purely materialistic upbringing of employees, the version of the ghost arose one of the first. The fact is that during its long history the house belonged to different owners. At one time, the estate was owned by the Novorossiysk governor, Duke Armand de Richelieu (he also built the house), Prince Vorontsov, Kiev mayor Ivan Funduklei, railway tycoon Gubonin, according to legends, smeared his boots with black caviar …
So anyone could be a ghost. But everyone agreed that it was probably the spirit of Alexander Sergeevich. Moreover, there is a direct indication of this in his poems written after a trip to Crimea:
So, if you can remove
Ottole where eternal light burns
Where happiness is eternal, immutable
My spirit will fly to Yurzuf …
The St. Petersburg Academy of Arts is not a museum, but an institution related to art. It is housed in an old building dating back to the 18th century. And of course, enough mystical legends have accumulated about him. One of them is connected with the teacher of the Academy Mikhail Kozlovsky, a famous sculptor, author of the monument to Suvorov and the composition "Samson tearing the mouth of a lion." The sculptor died in 1802, and was buried at the Smolensk cemetery.
According to legend, on the night of large floods, when water gets into the basements of the Academy, you can hear a loud knock at its gates, and then a shout: “This is me - Kozlovsky, I came from the Smolensk cemetery, all wet in the grave and icy. Open up!"
In the 1930s, M. Kozlovsky was reburied in the Necropolis of Artists in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. But his ghost continues to come to the Academy of Arts, especially on rainy nights - the night watchmen of the venerable institution still tell about this.
Surprisingly, the largest number of anomalous phenomena are associated with wax museums. So, during the exhibition of these items, brought from St. Petersburg to one of the cities of Russia, the guards suddenly heard the sound of the heels of Princess Golitsyna, the prototype of the countess from Pushkin's "Queen of Spades".
They even summoned a psychic to rid the museum of otherworldly sounds. However, after a short trial, he said that he could do nothing about the invisible visits of a high-ranking guest.
During the next exhibition of the museum in Miass (Chelyabinsk region), the director of the local museum of local lore could clearly hear steps on the stairs, although no one came down it at that moment. And when the figure of actress Marlene Dietrich fell and shattered without outside interference, the director of the museum suggested that perhaps the exhibition was not to the liking of the former owner of the house in which the museum was housed - Yegor Simonov, a gold miner and patron of art, an honorary citizen of the city of Miass.
They say that in terms of the number of ghosts per square meter, the St. Petersburg Hermitage confidently takes the first place. In its dark corridors you can meet Nicholas I - erect posture, golden epaulettes, gaze. The ghost is considered uncommunicative - in any case, for all the time of its existence, he has never tried to get to know anyone.
Another ghost of the Hermitage is a cute young phantom in overalls, who is called a drunken plumber. Usually he shows up at three in the morning, goes to the water pipe and starts to misbehave.
There are also funny, cheerful old women: they run about the halls, stomp loudly, lower and raise the curtains and pull the door handles. Sometimes they arrange performances - they play "living pictures", reviving old exhibits. Most of all, for some reason, they love the paintings of Rubens and Rembrandt.
Another representative of the other world in the Hermitage is a daytime ghost, albeit quite harmless: he walks through the halls, sticks to foreign tourists and asks for money in broken English. But more often than not, he just sleeps in different parts of the museum and snores loudly.
The most exotic ghost - the "keeper" - a fat old man who looks like a satyr. At night, he wanders the museum, steals paintings and exhibits, hides them in secret places. Sometimes his face appears as a mask on the walls: the old prankster amuses himself by mimicking visitors.
Many legends are associated with the hall of art of Ancient Egypt. There is a story when one of the caretakers complained to another: “Mine went out at night again. In the morning I came, began to wipe the dust, I saw: the lid was moved. That means she was walking again at night. It was about one of the statues of the great ancient Egyptian goddess Mut-Sokhmet.
According to legend, this lion-headed goddess of war and scorching heat decided to destroy all of humanity. But the gods intervened in her plan, deciding to deceive Mut-Sokhmet: while she was sleeping, they poured beer tinted red around her. In the morning, the goddess drank beer, mistaking it for human blood, calmed down and fell asleep.
But the modern Hermitage legend claims that she has not completely calmed down and the threat to humanity has not yet disappeared. Once a year, on a full moon, a reddish puddle appears on the goddess's basalt lap. By morning, shortly before the first visitors appear, it disappears.