All-Russian event “Night at the Museum. The Tretyakov Gallery and its branches will work free of charge at the “Night of Arts Moscow State Museum “House of Burganov”

For one day, the Hermitage Garden will become the site of the educational festival “Open Lectures”, which will take place from 15:00 to 21:00. Here you can find out the latest news from the life of space and the universe, meet visionary artists, talk about urban anthropology and even look at Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square” with new eyes.

Among the festival participants are the curator of the Polytech festival Olga Vad, director, artist and curator Vera Martynova, photographer Igor Mukhin, art historian Andrei Sarabyanov, director of Russia’s first Design Museum Alexander Sankov, art critic Sergei Khachaturov and others.

Admission to lectures is free,

2. Pop-up festival

Every year, on the evening of May 20, huge queues line up at the doors and gates of the capital’s most popular museums. This time, a tedious and boring pastime promises to become exciting and enjoyable. All evening - from 18:00 to 23:00 - branded buses with artists and musicians will run around the city, from museum to museum.

The museum “queues” won’t even have time to look back when suddenly everyone around them starts singing, a whole brass band will march past, and very close by there will be a parallel line of young actors from Moscow theaters playing a performance. Wait for the Action vans at the Tretyakov Gallery on Lavrushinsky Lane, the Museum of Cosmonautics, the Central Manege, the Darwin Museum and even the Zoo.


3. Concert in the house of M. S. Shchepkin

The headliner of Russian neoclassical music, touring in the West and East, composer and pianist Misha Mishchenko, will give a concert in the house of M. S. Shchepkin. Muscovite Mishchenko composes instrumental compositions and records records, reinventing classical and academic music - from romanticism to minimalism and ethnic music, known for tracks for films, in one of which he sounds, for example, a charango - a South Mexican guitar made from an armadillo shell, and for accompanying a fabulous short film by clothing designer Lesya Paramonova.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 21:00 to 22:00.
  • Venue: M. S. Shchepkin House-Museum, Shchepkina Street, 47, building 2, Prospekt Mira metro station.
  • Registration for the event opens on May 16th.

4. Performance by VASYABEGA “A017UM 77” at the Museum of Moscow

At the Museum of Moscow Premiere of the new performance “A017UM 77” by VASYABEGI as part of the “Conversation in the City” series. The project was prepared jointly with the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. “A017UM 77” is the car number. A-O-U-M - breath divided into sounds. With the help of a variety of theatrical and artistic means, a space is constructed within the performance, representing a certain situation and divided into 6 zones according to the methodological manual.

The “Manual” describes 6 stages of self-knowledge, which participants go through step by step, stopping at one or another depending on the degree of intensity of internal work. By involving viewers in this space, the team strives not only to tell a story, but to create conditions that would allow the viewer to gain personal experience of experiencing this “event”, of being inside it.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 21:00 to 21:45.
  • Venue: Museum of Moscow, Zubovsky Boulevard, 2, Metro Park Kultury.
  • Pre-registration by mail is required: [email protected]. 18+

5. Night at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

As part of the program of events, a virtual excursion with an audio guide around the Museum Town (IZI Travel) and a quest around the Main Building of the Museum “Pushkin Revived”, compiled by students of the Young Art Critics Club. For the most erudite visitors, there is the opportunity to visit the museum for free and without waiting in line: you need to answer online test questions on the history of the Museum and the content of current exhibitions. The test will be available from 18:00 on the website www.arts-museum.ru/museumnight. The museum also launches the “I am a tour guide” campaign.

On the “Night of Museums” at the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin invites visitors to record a short video (up to 90 seconds long) on ​​their smartphones on the topic of an exhibition, exhibit or event that will take place at the Museum. This could be a short excursion, a story about the Museum, a description of your favorite exhibit. We suggest publishing the filmed video on your personal profile on the social networks Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the action hashtags: #museumnight2017, #culturalarf, #Iamaguide and the museum hashtag. A special event of the action - a helmet of the Illyrian type (Greece, 6th century BC) will be on display.

  • Venue: Volkhonka street, 12 (Main building), Volkhonka street, 14 (Gallery of European and American art of the 19th-20th centuries), Kropotkinskaya metro station.
  • No pre-registration required.

6. Festive evening “It has become possible to love” at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

This year, the program of the annual “Night at the Museum” event is dedicated to the “Thaw” exhibition, which is being held at the Tretyakov Gallery until June 11. As part of the Farce Major Concert musical program, you will be able to listen to the main songs of the era, performed by actors from the Theater of Nations. Thematic master classes will be held for children and parents in the Museum’s Creative Workshop.

An international food court dedicated to the VI World Festival of Youth and Students of 1957 will open in the museum courtyard and there will be an interactive photo zone where all visitors will be invited to take photographs in the interiors of that time. By the evening, a dance floor will open, where you can master dances such as foxtrot, jive and lipsey to live music, accompanied by professional dancers.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 18:00 to 00:00.
  • Venue: Krymsky Val street, 10, Oktyabrskaya metro station, Park Kultury.
  • No pre-registration required.

7. Street festival “White Night in Kolomenskoye”

A number of thematic and concert venues, combined into a quest route, will be presented in various parts of the Royal Kazan Garden. To complete it, guests will need to visit several gaming areas, participate in competitions and master classes. After completing all the tasks, the quest participants receive a prize that they will need for the final flash mob.

During the festival, circus performers will perform in colorful, bright costumes. An open-air art exhibition and a flowering garden will create the atmosphere of a magical evening accompanied by jazz and pop music.

  • Venue: Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, Andropov Avenue, 39, Kashirskaya, Kakhovskaya metro stations.
  • No pre-registration required.

8. Excursion program “Journey to the magical land of cats” at the Kuklachev Cat Theater

Guests will have a unique opportunity to visit the Crystal Castle, where the cat actors of the theater live. The program also includes a tour of the theater museum, which houses hundreds of unique exhibits from different parts of the world, gifts from famous people on the planet, prizes and awards from Yuri and Dmitry Kuklachev. In addition, viewers will see a magical sand show from artist Ekaterina Kuklacheva.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 18:00 to 19:00.
  • Venue: Kuklachev Cat Theater, Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 25, Kievskaya metro station.
  • Pre-registration is required by phone: 8 (903) 136–15–90.

9. Walking tour “Mikhail Bulgakov’s Fantastic Moscow” at the M. A. Bulgakov Museum

On the excursion you can see: the building of the Variety Theater, where a session of black magic and its exposure took place; the house in which Bulgakov took part in a seance; the setting of the stories “Diaboliad” and “Fatal Eggs” and even the office of Professor Persikov. And the guide will tell you who actually became the prototype of Professor Persikov; which circus they took Sharikov to see the elephants, and where the “ill-fated” bench from the novel “The Master and Margarita” was actually located.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 18:00 to 21:00.
  • Venue: M. A. Bulgakov Museum, Bolshaya Sadovaya street, 10, Mayakovskaya metro station.
  • Pre-registration is required by phone: 8 (495) 699–53–66.

10. Creative evening “Cosmic scores” at Winzavod

The general theme of the night at the museum in the anniversary year of Winzavod will be discussions by artists, poets and performers about cosmism and borderline states - dreams, dreams, daydreams, what would happen if. The central events of the evening are performances, mini-performances, theatrical performances that will reveal borderline states from different angles and points of view.

Guests are invited not only to reflect on the topic of sleep, but also to immerse themselves in an interactive journey - a performance promenade with elements of a quest, exploring non-verbal communication between dancers and the public. In addition, a print market and master classes will operate at the CCA sites.

  • Time: May 20, 2017 from 18:00 to 23:00.
  • Venue: Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, 4th Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1/8, building 6, Kurskaya metro station.
  • No pre-registration required.

Museum Night 2017 is a traditional event related to the main cultural events of the year, which will take place on the night of May 20-21. In Moscow, the program of events will be quite extensive; museums, libraries and theaters, as well as open-air venues, will join the action.

In total, the list of events for the “Night of Museums 2017” event in Moscow includes more than 1,500 different cultural events, in which everyone is invited to take part.

In 2017, the main theme of the “Night of Museums” event will be the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution; in a number of museums, events will be dedicated to the Year of Ecology in Russia.

On this day, master classes, lectures, concerts, performances, and historical reconstructions will be held in galleries across the country.

In 2017, the Moscow Kremlin museums will join the “Night of Museums” event for the first time; a special program will be held in the museum’s lecture hall.

In Moscow, more than 200 galleries and art centers of the city will join the action, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Tsaritsyno estate, VDNH, the Moscow Zoo, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and other venues.

Each of them will prepare an interesting cultural program for guests.

Night of Museums 2017 in Moscow: program of events, schedule

Center for Creative Industries "Fabrika" from 20:00

Darwin Museum from 18:00

National Center for Contemporary Art from 12:00

Venues of the Manege association from 10:00

Venues of the “Museum of Moscow” association from 18:00

Historical Museum from 18:00

Hockey Museum from 12:00

Museum of the East from 18:00

Museum of Architecture from 18:00

Kremlin Museums from 18:00

Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
“Night of Kandinsky” from 18:00

Moscow State Art Gallery of People's Artist of the USSR Ilya Glazunov

1. Sightseeing tour “Russia of Ilya Glazunov”. Excursion times: 18:00; 19:00; 20:00; 21:00; 22:00; 23:00
2. Interactive program “Screen tests”. The opportunity to try on your favorite movie image. Venue: Gallery courtyard. Time: 18:00-22:00
3. Concert program of the Moscow State Chapel named after Vadim Sudakov. Limited number of seats. Time: 18:00-19:15
4. Intellectual quiz “Legends of World Cinema”. Time: 19:30
5. Musical master class “Musical attic: songs from your favorite movies” with a teacher-accompanist. Time: 21:00

Moscow State Art Gallery of People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Shilov

1. Exhibition of paintings “Victory Day”. During the promotion from 18:00-00:00
2. Evening of instrumental music (Celtic harp, flute). Performance by artists of the ensemble "Amabile". Time: 19:00
3. Thematic excursion “The World of Theater and Cinema” (dedicated to the Year of Cinema). Time: 19:00, 21:00
4. Thematic excursion “True beauty does not need to amaze with novelty... It is enough that it is beauty.” Review of the most memorable paintings in the gallery. Time: 20:00, 22:00

Patriarchal Museum of Church Art (Church of the Transfiguration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior)
From 18:00 the exhibition “Patriarchal Museum of Church Art. History of icon painting".

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
Exhibition “My love is not a wisp of smoke.” Time: 18:00

MMOMA on Tverskoy Boulevard, 9
Exhibition “One-Story America: Based on True Events.” Time: 18:00-00:00

MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10
An exhibition of selected works from the collection of Vladimir Ovcharenko “Borscht and Champagne” and a personal exhibition “Samara. Further everywhere. Russia in the works of Yuri Filippov." Time: 18:00-00:00

MMOMA on the street. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, 15
Exhibition “Zurab Tsereteli. Collection of works". Time: 18:00-00:00

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Day and night at the Garage from 11:00

National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA)

1. Exhibition of works by nominees of the XI All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art. Time: 12:00-01:00
2. Piano concert “Pianism”. From 19.00-20.30
3. Screening of documentaries by Leonid Named from the series “Little Heroes”. 20:30-21:00; 21:30-22:00
4. Concert of the ensemble “School/Škola Crew”. Time: 21:00-21:30
5. Performance by Yuri Shvedov. 22:00-22:30
6. Jack’s Garret performance. 22:30-23:00
7. Film screening “Dance in World Cinema”. 23:00-01:00

Multimedia Art Museum
Exhibition "Russian Space". Time: 18:00-00:00

Moscow State Museum "House of Burganov"

1. Sightseeing tour of the Burganov Museum. Time: 13:00, 17:00
2. Master class by People's Artist of Russia Alexander Burganov. Time: 18.00
3. “Dancing in the Museum.” Time: 18:00-20:00
4. Concert “Tango. Stories told by dance." Time: 19:00-21:00
5. Program for children “First Steps”. Performances by children's puppet theaters in Moscow and the Moscow region. Time: 14.00-17.00

Memorial apartment A.S. Pushkin on Arbat
Acquaintance with the exposition of the Memorial Apartment of A.S. Pushkin. 18:00-00:00

The full schedule of all events of the Museum Night 2017 event in Moscow can be viewed on the official website http://www.culture.ru/s/museumnight.

The All-Russian “Night of Museums” will be held in 80 regions of Russia from May 20 to 21. In some museums, the annual promotion will begin on May 19. “Night of Museums”, dedicated to the Year of Ecology, is held for the eleventh time.

The main event of the weekend is the cultural event “Night at the Museum”. More than 200 museums, galleries, art schools and art centers in the capital, where creative meetings, lectures, excursions, performances, concerts and so on will take place, will leave their doors open until midnight or even until the morning.

The grand opening of the event will take place on May 20 at 17:00 in the Hermitage Garden in Moscow. More than 2,000 Russian museums will open their doors on “Night of Museums 2107”. More than 1,500 events will be held at venues not only in museums, libraries and theaters, but also in cultural centers, in the open air, in estates and parks, and even in planetariums and zoos.

On the Night of Museums, visitors will be welcomed by the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Tsaritsyno estate, the Moscow Zoo, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hermitage Garden and many others.

In 2017, the Moscow Kremlin museums will join the “Night of Museums” event for the first time; a special program will be held in the museum’s lecture hall.

Not only will excursions to museums be available to everyone, but you will also be able to take part in a theater show or take a short trip to historical Moscow estates.

Among the fun proposals for this time is the “Museum of the History of Cognac” will receive visitors as part of the international educational event “Night of Museums”. A unique exhibition where most of the exhibits can not only be seen, but also touched, heard the aroma of ancient wineries and become acquainted with the art of tasting. More than 2 thousand guests are expected here this night.

Poems and music inspired by the theme of space will be heard throughout the evening in Gorky Park. As part of the event, guests will also be able to visit secret museum locations - three small museums will host meetings with a famous photographer, contemporary composer and artist.

The Tretyakov Gallery has prepared a varied program at several venues. The main building will host an exhibition dedicated to the muses of artists of the 20th - early 21st centuries: Valentin Serov, Ilya Repin, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin and others.

On Krymsky Val in the Tretyakov Gallery there will be a master class on foxtrot, lipsey and jive to the accompaniment of thaw songs performed by actors of the Theater of Nations. Everyone will also be able to attend meetings with collectors at the Museum-Apartment of Apollinary Vasnetsov, the House-Museum of Viktor Vasnetsov and the Museum-Workshop of Anna Golubkina.

Also planned are performances by a brass band, theatrical and sound performances, and lectures on art and urbanism.

Those who are ready to go for a night walk will join free walking tours, reports. A total of 10 free walking routes from current excursion projects are organized.

During the promotion, impressive queues form at popular sites. To please those on the waiting list, branded cars with artists will drive around the capital from 18:00 to 23:00. They will stop and perform at the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Cosmonautics, the Central Manege, the Zoo and the Darwin Museum.

To quickly travel around distant action sites, use special bus transport. Free buses - on May 20 from 18:00 to 00:00, 8 buses will run at 15-minute intervals with the following stops:

  • Museum of Cosmonautics (stop “VDNKh metro station”)
  • Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (stop “Palace of Culture MIIT”)
  • Tele2 communication salon (stop “Eye Hospital”)
  • Bulgakov Museum (Triumphal Square stop)
  • Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (stop "Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture")
  • Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane (stop “Tretyakovskaya metro station”)
  • Darwin Museum (stop “Darwin Museum”)

Food trucks with snacks and hot drinks will be located near the stops. The main theme of this year's festival will be the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution.

On Taganka, guests will be greeted by the Museum of Russian Icons with a very interesting program.

Our parks, unfortunately, are excluded from this promotion. The Night of Museums is not covered in any way on the Tagansky Park website. Well, the park named after. Pryamikova has long been closed “for improvement”, which the mayor’s office promised to complete by the last City Day in 2016...

The next, eleventh, all-Russian event “Night of Museums” will take place on the night of May 20-21. More than 200 cultural venues in the capital - museums, galleries, libraries, parks - will welcome visitors until the early morning. Residents of the capital will see many interesting events - concerts, quests, competitions, performances, and will take part in excursions and master classes.

Popular Moscow museums, galleries, parks, exhibition halls will take part in the “Night of Museums” event - the Tretyakov Gallery, the Tsaritsyno estate, the Artplay design center, the State Center for Contemporary Art, the Hermitage Garden, the Kremlin in Izmailovo, the Museum. A. Rublev, Moscow Zoo, Darwin Museum, Manege exhibition hall, etc. At night, interesting events will take place in the open air - in parks, estates, squares, pedestrian areas. Many programs will be devoted to the topic “Ecology”.

As part of the promotion, Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to visit St. Basil's Cathedral, the Historical Museum and the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812 for free. Visitors will see concerts, take part in excursions (will be held at all three venues every 15 minutes until 21.00), master classes on sculpting Russian toys, painting bells, stone and bone carving, and will be treated to food in the Artillery Courtyard from 17.00 to 21.00 field kitchen. At the Historical Museum, the “History Alive” program will be held from 18.00 to 23.00. The festive ringing of the bells of St. Basil's Cathedral will begin at 21.00 and last half an hour.

The Darwin Museum (Vavilov St., 57) will host original excursions, a concert, and a meeting with the robot Alantim, who will answer questions from guests, tell interesting stories, read poetry and even sing. There will also be an exhibition of works by Andy Warhol, which depict rare species of animals. For young visitors there will be interactive zones “Walk the Path of Evolution” and “Know Yourself - Know the World”, exhibitions “The World under a Microscope” and “The Problem of Four Environments”, as well as a training laboratory. The events will end at midnight.

At the State Center for Contemporary Art (Zoologicheskaya St., 13, building 2), viewers will be able to see the exhibition “Life of the Living”, as well as learn about the latest in sound and video art. From 18.30 to 20.00 the video program of the Japan Media Arts Festival will be shown here (subtitles in English). Next will be a round table “Music, dance and technology: today and 25 years ago.” From 21.00 to 22.40, visitors will see the film “The Age of Dance” about the emergence of a new musical culture in the USSR and the first raves.

In the center of creative industries "Factory" (Perevedenovsky lane, 18) there will be excursions to exhibitions, performances and film screenings, the Hermitage garden will become a platform for educational lectures, a lecture on fashion of the 1960s will be held in Gorky Park, you can also will look at the stars through a telescope, listen to music and poetry. Other venues will also present their programs.

For lovers of walking excursions, 10 free walking routes from popular excursion projects will be organized.

We remind you that tomorrow, May 20, the next all-Russian event “Night at the Museum” will take place. Many Moscow museums will open their doors to visitors absolutely free on this day. Some will work until midnight, others until the morning. Where should we go? Let's choose!

1. Tretyakov Gallery invites you to visit from 18:00 to 24:00. Admission with free tickets. Special Project Program "It's now possible to love" in the New Tretyakov Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition "Thaw" and this era in general. The action was organized with the support of the EUROCEMENT group holding.

Opening hours of the Tretyakov Gallery during “Night at the Museum”:
New Tretyakov Gallery
Exhibitions and permanent exhibitions are open until 24:00, admission from 18:00 to 23:00 with free tickets for individual visitors, including the exhibitions “The Thaw”, “Giorgio De Chirico. Metaphysical insights", "Dmitry Zhilinsky. Inner Circle", "Graphics by Vasily Chekrygin", "Reboot".
Special project program “It has become possible to love”
18:00-20:00 - master class “Moscow windows. Dedication to five-story buildings"
18:00-23:30 - food court in the yard
18:30-23:30 - dance floors in the courtyard: master classes and shows take place every half hour
19:00-23:00 - marathon of excursions, exhibition “Art of the 20th Century”, 4th floor
20:00-20:40 - musical program “Farce Major Concert”, first part; hall 2nd floor
21:30-22:10 - musical program “Farse Major Concert”, second part; hall 2nd floor
22:00-22:30 - final master class on twist, culminating flash mob Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane
Exhibitions and permanent exhibitions are open until 24:00, admission from 18:00 to 23:00 with free tickets for individual visitors.
Engineering building, Lavrushinsky, 12
Please note that visiting the exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova will be paid. The exhibition is open until 24:00, entry until 23:00.
House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsova(Vasnetsova Lane, 13)
Open until 21:00, admission from 18:00 to 20:30 with free tickets for individual visitors.
Museum-apartment of Ap.M. Vasnetsova(Furmanny Lane, 6, 3rd floor)
Open until 21:00, entry from 18:00 to 20:30 with free tickets for individual visitors.
Museum-workshop A.S. Golubkina(B.Levshinsky Lane, 12)
Open until 23:00, entry from 18:00 to 22:30 with free tickets for individual visitors.