Loktyshy. The 'Anti-Bacchus' Museum.

The museum was created as an unusual way to prevent alcoholism, but in fact it turned out to be a museum of the creativity of alcohol factory marketers. There are all kinds of names here: "Firewood", "Squirrel", "Maria without Ivan", "Invigorating", "On a horse!" - fun, creative and with a specific humor. The museum's creator, Nikolai Lenkovets, has managed to compile dozens of preventive parables about the dangers of alcohol from the extravagant labels.

A lot of tourists visit the museum in summer. Buses bring 2-3 groups a day, teenagers from schools and school camps, and students from vocational schools. It's one thing when a narcologist or a policeman talks about drunkenness - it's boring, boring, uninteresting, but it's quite another if the information is presented in a humorous form. And already, as if "between the lines" there are examples, parables and figures.

Once in this museum, a send-off of alcoholics of LTP was arranged. Those who saw so many empty bottles couldn't even hold back their tears.

Nikolai Dmitrievich arranges his bottles better than the most experienced merchandiser - by topic. Bottles labeled "Ozernaya", "Narochanka", "Pripyat", "Rechenka" are simultaneously accompanied by stories about the inadmissibility of drunk bathing. The current statistics from OSVOD are posted right here on the stand. 

Studying the exposition, where bottles of Dorozhnaya vodka are displayed in a row one after another, tourists receive a reminder from the traffic police about "drunk" accidents.

A separate collection of professional containers with brands such as "Diplomat", "Mytnik", "Maestro", "Director" on the labels is most eloquent evidence of the habit of some people to drink in the workplace, which means you can unobtrusively remind them of accidents and incidents at work and think about strengthening labor discipline. There are at least several dozen such collections in the museum.

There is a bottle of Marshalskaya beer in the collection, where the label depicts Georgy Zhukov on a white horse during the Victory Day Parade. One of his close relatives sued the brewery manufacturer. She simply felt hurt for her famous relative.

There are bottles in the museum in the form of a light bulb, a sword, world architectural landmarks, giant and tiny bottles, colorful. The oldest bottle, similar to a flask, was from 1918. There is a bottle from Venezuela. All the exhibits are mostly collected by folk efforts. They are brought here more often than to the glass collection point. Truckers, fishermen, hotel cleaners, and even trash cans carry them.

Visiting the Anti-Bacchus Museum is not only informative, but also an entertaining event, as its subject matter is very unusual. For those who are tired of visiting historical, artistic, literary and other museums, this exhibition will be just right.