Night of museums Tretyakov on Krymsky Val. Night of Museums at the Tretyakov Gallery

T Retyakov Gallery joins the “Night of Museums” campaign and opens a permanent exhibition in the main building at 10 Lavrushinsky Lane for free admission.

Also in the main building, visitors will be able to see the temporary exhibition “The Artist’s Model in the Camera Lens.” This special project presents photographs of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, which depict the muses of Russian artists, models of paintings from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. The viewer is presented with original photographs of people who posed for Ilya Repin, Ivan Kramskoy, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Viktor Borisov-Musatov. The chosen time frame, with rare exceptions, corresponds to the era of Symbolism and Art Nouveau, when high art, fashion and lifestyle were closer than ever.

The New Tretyakov Gallery will host a special program “It has become possible to love” and will be dedicated to the “Thaw” exhibition. 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. In the courtyard of the museum, an international food court will open, dedicated to the VI World Student Youth Festival of 1957, 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.

Small museums of the Tretyakov Gallery also take part in the action and present the project “Discovering the Personal”.

The 1960s are landmark years in the museum life of our country: the Soviet Union joined the International Council of Museums (1957), the first museum-reserves appeared (1958), the Moscow Kremlin museums opened to the public (1961), documents on the museum fund were published, in professional Wednesday, conversations begin about a unified catalog of museum objects, the history of museum affairs in Russia (1957–1971) is being written, and guides are being trained in institutes.

New trends are emerging in the global cultural community - the theory of “museum communication” (Canada, 1968) set the vector of interaction with visitors and contributed to the arrival of designers, sociologists and psychologists in museums. Museums are trying to speak to their visitors in a new way, and personal intonations are beginning to be heard in this conversation. It was in the 1950-1960s that some of the creative and residential spaces ceased to be just workshops, houses and apartments, and by the will of artists and their heirs they became museums. Some later became small museums of the Tretyakov Gallery.

How does the personal become the property of everyone, how does this happen, what do those who, at a certain moment and of their own free will, allow many to touch the sacred feel? How do the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of artists preserve collections today and what museums do they dream of? The descendants, heirs, and contemporaries of the creation of the museums of Victor and Apollinary Vasnetsov and Anna Golubkina will talk about this.

The project “Discovering the Personal” will involve Olga Alekseevna Vasnetsova, honorary chairman of the Vasnetsov Foundation, great-grandniece of artists, Nadezhda Nikolaevna Dudareva, former employee of the USSR Ministry of Culture, friend of the family of Vsevolod Apollinaryevich Vasnetsov, Nadezhda Prikhodko - artist, friend of Ekaterina Konstantinovna Vasnetsova.

Evgeniy Vuchetich (grandson of the sculptor E.V. Vuchetich), Irina Kondratova (granddaughter of the painter D.A. Nalbandyan), and heirs of other masters will tell about the fate of the collections.

You will also meet collectors – friends and neighbors of museums.

Meetings and conversations will take place in the House-Museum of Viktor Vasnetsov (Vasnetsova Lane, 13), in the museum-apartment of Apollinary Vasnetsov (Furmanny Lane, building 6, apt. 21), in the museum-workshop of Anna Golubkina (Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane, building 12 ).

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, one of which features, for example, a charango - a South Mexican guitar made from an armadillo shell, and accompaniment to 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” and 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.

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.

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The capital's museums, libraries, parks and other cultural spaces will leave their doors open until late in the evening or even until the morning. Special programs, concerts, performances and other interesting events await guests. More than 200 sites are participating.

The “Night at the Museum” event will be held in Moscow on the night of May 20-21. Dozens of cultural institutions are participating, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Tsaritsyno estate, the Moscow Zoo, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hermitage Garden and other venues. Each of them will prepare an interesting cultural program for guests. The Darwin Museum will host a concert and a meeting with a robot, the Fabrika center for creative industries will host excursions and film screenings, and the Hermitage Garden will become a platform for educational lectures. In Gorky Park, poetry and music inspired by the theme of space will be heard throughout the evening; they will also organize a lecture on 60s fashion and let you admire the stars through a telescope. 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. Also planned are performances by a brass band, theatrical and sound performances, and lectures on art and urbanism. Those ready for an overnight stroll will join free walking tours. 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 remote action sites, use a special bus route - eight additional vehicles will be allowed. You can travel for free from 18:00 to midnight, the traffic interval is 15 minutes. 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. Some of the events will be dedicated to the Year of Ecology in Russia.

More than two thousand Russian museums will open their doors this night to everyone who wants to experience art at an unusual time of day, and many of them are preparing unique events for visitors.

"Night of Museums" is one of the main cultural events of the year, not only in the Russian Federation - the annual event, which is dedicated to International Museum Day, takes place in many countries around the world.

In Russia, the main theme of the event will be the 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution, and 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. The detailed program and schedule of events can be found on the official website.

Where and how did night museum festivities originate?

The first official event, which went down in history as the “Long Night of Museums” (Lange Nacht der Museen), took place in Berlin in 1997. The city administration decided to allow visitors into museums for free on this day, and conduct excursions all night long.

This idea was a great success and the following year another 20 cities in Germany joined the action. Since then, this artistic and educational event has been held in Berlin twice a year on the last Saturday of January and August.

The history of night museum adventures in Europe, dedicated to International Museum Day, which is celebrated on May 18, began in 2001 in Paris. This idea was picked up in all the main European capitals.

"Night at the Museum" event in Moscow And four years later, the French put forward the idea of annually holding the International museum, exhibition, cultural and educational event "Night of Museums", which was approved by the Council of Europe in the same year. The action is supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

In Russia, the Krasnoyarsk Museum Center was the first to open its doors to night visitors in 2002, and in 2007 the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow, joined the action. The cultural and educational project “Night of Museums” has become traditional and is held on the third weekend of May.

How the “Night of Museums” will take place in the Russian capital

A large-scale annual event - “Night of Museums” will be held in Moscow for the 11th time. The motto of the Moscow campaign in 2017 is “Time of discovery.”

"Night of Museums" event in Gorky Park At "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 particular, the museum-theater “Bulgakov House” will be open until six o’clock in the morning on “Night of Museums” and will present the plastic performance “Bertrand’s Toys” and the performance “Land of Scoundrels” based on the banned poem by Sergei Yesenin.

The Mikhail Bulgakov Museum, Moscow Zoo, as part of the “Night of Museums” event, invites everyone to free sightseeing tours of the evening zoo. Those interested will be able to get acquainted with animals from different parts of the globe, find out the names of different animals and birds, where they live, how they live in the zoo and what needs to be done to prevent them from disappearing from the face of the earth.

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.

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts will host master classes on ceramic floristry and polymer clay modeling, as well as lectures on “Antiques,” “Fascinating stories about shoes,” and others. The night's program will continue with excursions, a film screening, a fashion show and an art show from the Aofmoka studio.

The event at the Museum of Cosmonautics will be opened by free tours of the main exhibition and screenings of documentaries “The Time of the First. History of creation”, “Time of the first. Leonov." During the master class “Ask a Cosmonaut a Question!” Hero of the Soviet Union cosmonaut Alexander Laveikin will tell museum guests about the structure of the Universe. Astronomical observations of different planets of the solar system will begin at nine o'clock in the evening.

A visitor during the "Night at the Museum" event at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. During the event, quests will be held at the Pushkin Museum and special exhibits will be on display. In particular, on the occasion of the “Night of Museums”, a helmet of the Illyrian type (Greece, 6th century BC) will be on display.

The range of events that you can attend in Moscow as part of the promotion on the night of May 20-21 is very diverse. It will be simply unrealistic to cover everything, or even half.

Some of them will be held only by prior registration, so you need to find out in advance about the conditions of participation, schedule, availability of free places and sign up on the official websites k.

In order to choose the most interesting events and not deprive yourself of pleasure, you should first familiarize yourself with the detailed program and schedule of the event on the official website.

The material was prepared on the basis of open sources.