Museum
The Museum of Measuring Instruments (hereinafter – the Museum) at “ERIS” LLC traces its history back to 2001 when the company for service maintenance of control and measuring equipment was founded.
Over the years, the Company has been developing its Museum of Measuring Instruments. The Museum's concept consists of measuring instruments and technology from all over the world.
By 2016, the Museum's collection had been organised into an exposition, and by 2021 the Museum obtained its own place in a building with a separate entrance. This made it possible to conduct excursions combined with thematic workshops and masterclasses for the Company's visitors.
Today, the exhibition hall covers an area of 60 square meters. The Museum's collection includes about 1,000 items. The main collection consists of devices that made history through their functionality – they are witnesses to multiple industrial revolutions and different eras of the Company's development, including products manufactured by the enterprise and exhibits of cultural and historical significance both for the Museum and the country.There are several unique items in the Museum's collection: a quadrant, scales from the Tsarist era, three-cup scales, a mechanical pedometer, an arithmometer, an artillery compass, and a 19th-century music box.
The Museum of Measuring Instruments fulfills several key missions:
• to introduce visitors to the Company's history and its achievements,
• to show the evolution of measuring instruments over several centuries,
• to demonstrate the Company's social responsibility,
• to highlight the development prospects for the Company and the world instrumentation industry,
• to serve as a venue for meetings with business partners, clients, and mass media,
• to host corporate events,
• to enhance the Company's market positioning against competitors (entities with history inspire greater trust),
• to provide engineers with a reference laboratory and knowledge base for future designers,
• to promote the science of Metrology.
Today the Museum has a 14-seat classroom for conducting lessons with students from partner educational institutions. Schoolchildren and students enjoy the unique opportunity to perform laboratory and research work using equipment from different historical periods - from 19th-century artifacts to the latest Russian and imported devices.
The Museum's main collaborative activities with affiliated educational institutions include:
research projects; providing exhibits for educational events at schools; interactive guided tours for students, their parents, and teachers; joint thematic events with schools (quests, meetings with notable figures, etc.); practical and career guidance activities.
Thus, the Company's Museum contributes to establishing another cultural and educational space in Chaykovsky.
The Museum serves as a permanent platform for educational and career guidance work among students, playing a significant role in shaping youth's proper attitude toward engineering professions, enhancing their prestige, and fostering interest in instrumentation history.
The average number of visitors per year is 1,350.
Throughout its operation, the Museum has hosted delegations from partner companies including: Gazprom, Lukoil, Roscosmos, Sibur, as well as international delegations from the UK, Tunisia, the USA, Austria, Poland, India, Germany, and Switzerland.
At different times, the guests of honour of the museum were M.G. Reshetnikov – the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and D.N. Makhonin – the Governor of Perm krai.
The Museum's development is ongoing.
Future plans include implementing gaming terminals, virtual laboratories, interactive models, monitors, etc., which will more effectively address one of its main objectives - career guidance.
We are ambitious about the future and are working on a strategy to develop the Museum as the main methodological platform for working with partners, clients, staff and students.
