Work of the Kunstkamera during the New Year holidays. Railway Museum

New Year's holidays are special and everyone expects something new and unknown from them. Why not devote your leisure time to cultural events. Moreover, many museums can be visited completely free of charge during the New Year holidays 2018.

Really, New Year Dogs will be much more memorable if you combine fun with New Year's table with a visit cultural sites in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

There are only a few months left before the New Year holidays, so it is important to plan your free time to spend your New Year holidays with maximum benefit and get a charge of emotions and impressions for the whole year.

Why visit museums during the New Year holidays

Traditionally, the New Year in Russia is accompanied by a long rest. Many people devote this time to hearty meals at the New Year's table, visiting, and traveling to visit relatives in another area. However, there are people who use every free minute to gain new impressions from meeting the beautiful. Visiting museums, exhibition halls and other cultural sites with your family makes a joint vacation more meaningful and useful, both from the point of view of bringing all family members closer together, and from the point of view of spiritual and cultural growth. Agree, it will be much more useful for your child to visit some kind of exhibition than to endlessly spend the holidays on the street. There should be moderation in everything, and it will be very good if you and your whole family during long New Year holidays visit more than one interesting museum. At the same time, you can take into account the inclinations, age and tastes of your children and choose museums that will interest everyone.

Very often on weekdays there is no time to visit cultural events, especially with the whole family. New Year holidays are the perfect time to strengthen family bonds and learn something new from visiting museums. Moreover, many museums operate completely free of charge during this period. Their variety is so great that they are suitable for people of all ages and interests.

Our two capitals have already established a good tradition of opening the doors of cultural institutions during the New Year holidays completely free of charge. This was done with the aim of popularizing museums and introducing young people to the history of the country and the achievements of our Fatherland in various areas of life.

We have prepared for readers of our website the most complete list of museums that can be visited during the New Year holidays in the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg completely free of charge. Moreover, we tried to provide reliable information about from what date and until what date the promotion is valid, so that our reader could plan everything and prepare accordingly before the long-awaited time of rest.

Free museums in Moscow in 2018

Every year, the Moscow Department of Culture prepares a list of museums in the capital that can be visited completely free of charge. This tradition has existed for more than one year. Every New Year's season everyone joins this action larger number cultural institutions and museums. Usually museums become free from January 2 until the Old New Year. In 2017, about 87 museums took part in the event. It is not yet known exactly how many there will be in 2018, but there is no doubt that there will be no fewer of them.

Approximate list of museums and exhibition halls operating in free visit in days winter holidays 2018:

History museums

• Museum Association"Moscow City Museum". Architectural complex “Provision Stores”, Zubovsky Boulevard, 2;
• Museum " Garden Ring road» (Moscow State Budgetary Institution “Garden Ring Museum”), Mira Avenue, 14;
• Museum of Archeology of Moscow (Museum Association "Museum of Moscow"), Manezhnaya Square, d.1a;
• Museum of Russian estate culture “Estate of the Princes Golitsyn Vlakhernskoe-Kuzminki” (Museum Association “Museum of Moscow”), Poplar Alley, 6, Starye Kuzminki, 13;
• Memorial House-Museum of Academician S.P. Queen, st. 1st Ostankinskaya, 28;
• Museum of Russian Harmonica A. Mirek (Museum Association "Museum of Moscow", 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya str., 18;
• Panorama Museum "Battle of Borodino", Kutuzovsky Avenue, 38;
• Museum of Heroes Soviet Union and Russia (branch of the Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum), st. B. Cheremushkinskaya, 24. building 3;
• State Museum of Defense of Moscow, Michurinsky Avenue, 3;
• State Zelenograd Historical- local history museum, Zelenograd, st. Gogol, 11-V;
• Museum of GULAG History, 1st Samotechny lane, 9, building 1;
• Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Prospekt Mira, 111;
• Museum complex “History of the T-34 tank”, Moscow region, Sholokhovo village, 88-a;
• Local Lore Museum “House on the Embankment”, st. Serafimovicha, 2, unit 1;
• Lefortovo Museum, st. Kryukovskaya, 23;
• Fashion Museum, st. Ilyinka, 4, entrance 1;
• Chambers of the Old English Court, st. Varvarka, 4a;
• Cinema club-museum “Eldar”, Leninsky Avenue, 105.

Literary and music museums

• State cultural center-museum V.S. Vysotsky, N. Tagansky deadlock, 3;
• State Museum – humanitarian center"Overcoming" them. N.A. Ostrovsky, st. Tverskaya, 14;
• Memorial apartment A.S. Pushkin (State Museum of A.S. Pushkin), st. Arbat 53;
• Exhibition halls of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin (State Museum of A.S. Pushkin), st. Arbat, 55;
• Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely (State Budgetary Institution of Moscow “State Museum of A.S. Pushkin”), st. Arbat 55;
• House-Museum of V.L. Pushkin (Moscow State Budgetary Institution of Culture “State Museum of A.S. Pushkin”), st. Staraya Basmannaya, 36;
• House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, Borisoglebsky lane, 6;
• "House N.V. Gogol - memorial museum And science Library"(State Budgetary Institution of Moscow "House of N.V. Gogol - Memorial Museum and Scientific Library"), Nikitsky Boulevard, 7a;
• Moscow literary museum center K.G. Paustovskogo, st. Starye Kuzminki, 17;
• Moscow state museum S.A. Yesenina, B. Strochenovsky lane, 24 and st. Klyazminskaya, 21, building 2;
• Memorial Museum of A.N. Scriabin B. Nikolopeskovsky, lane, no. 11;
• Museum of M. A. Bulgakov, st. B. Sadovaya, 10, apt. 50;
• House of Russian Abroad named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya St., 2;
• Exhibition hall "Chekhov's House", st. Malaya Dmitrovka, 29, building 4.

Art museums

• Museum of Folk Graphics, M. Golovin lane, 10;
• Museum and Exhibition Center “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” (Moscow Museum and Exhibition Association “Capital”), Mira Avenue, 123 b;
• Museum - workshop of D. A. Nalbandyan (Moscow Museum and Exhibition Association "Capital"), st. Tverskaya, 8, bldg. 2;
• Moscow Museum contemporary art(on Petrovka), st. Petrovka, 25, building 1;
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art (in Ermolaevsky), Ermolaevsky Lane, 17;
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art (on Tverskoy), Tverskoy Boulevard, 9;
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art (on Gogolevsky), Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10;
• Museum of Naive Art, Soyuzny Avenue, 15-a;
• Moscow State Art Gallery People's Artist USSR Ilya Glazunov, st. Volkhonka, 13;
• Moscow State Art Gallery of People's Artist of the USSR A.M. Shilova st. Znamenka, 5;
• Moscow State Museum "House of Burganov", B. Afanasyevsky lane, 15, building 9
• Museum of V. A. Tropinin and Moscow artists of his time, Shchetininsky lane, 10, building 1;
• Exhibition hall “ART-Izmailovo” (Moscow State Budgetary Institution “Museum of Naive Art”), Izmailovsky Boulevard, 30;
• Exhibition Hall “Zelenograd” (State Budgetary Institution of Moscow “State Zelenograd Museum of History and Local Lore”), Zelenograd, building 1410;
• School of watercolor by Sergei Andriyaka (GBOU Moscow "Moscow State Specialized School of Watercolor by Sergey Andriyaka with museum and exhibition complex"), Gorokhovsky lane, 17;
• MGVZ "New Manege", Georgievsky Lane, 3/3;
• Moscow State Museum of Vadim Sidur, st. Novogireevskaya, 37, building 2;
• Multimedia complex contemporary arts, st. Ostozhenka, 16.

Museum-reserves and estates

• State Historical-Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve “Tsaritsyno”, st. Dolskaya, 1;
• Estate "Kolomenskoye" (Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve), Andropov Avenue, 39;
• Estate "Lefortovo" (Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve), st. Krasnokazarmennaya, possession 1;
• Estate "Lublino". (Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve), st. Letnyaya, house 1, bldg. 1;
• Estate "Izmailovo" (Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve), town named after. Bauman, 1, building 4 (Bridge Tower);
• State Museum of Ceramics and “Kuskovo Estate of the 18th century”, st. Yunosti, 2;
• Moscow estate of Father Frost, Volgogradsky Prospekt, 168 D;
• Museum and park complex "Northern Tushino", st. Svobody, 56.

Naturally - science museums

• State Darwin Museum, st. Vavilova, 57;
• State biological museum them. K.A.Timiryazev, st. M. Gruzinskaya, 15.

Exhibition halls

• Exhibition hall "Rostokino", st. Rostokinskaya, 1;
• Exhibition Hall "Solntsevo", st. Bogdanova, 44;
• Exhibition hall “Peresvetov Lane”, Peresvetov Lane, building 4, building 1;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery “Izmailovo”, Izmailovsky proezd, 4;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery “Belyaevo”, st. Profsoyuznaya, 100 and st. Vargi 3;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery Nagornaya”, st. Remizova, 10ya;
• Exhibition hall “On Kashirka”, st. Academician Millionshchikova, 35, building 5;
• Exhibition hall “Varshavka”, Varshavskoe shosse, 75, building 1. Varshavskoe highway, 68, building 1, Varshavskoe highway, 72, building 2;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery on Peschanaya”, st. Novopeschanaya, 23, building 7;
• Exhibition Hall “Bogorodskoye”, Otkrytoe Shosse, 5, building 6;
• Exhibition Hall “Khodynka”, st. Irina Levchenko, 2;
• Exhibition Hall “Zamoskvorechye”, Serpukhovsky Val, 24, building 2;
• Exhibition Hall “Vykhino”, st. Tashkentskaya, 9;
• Exhibition Hall “Pechatniki”, st. Batyuninskaya, 14;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery XXI century”, st. Kremenchugskaya 22;
• Exhibition Hall of the History of the War in Afghanistan”, st. 1st Vladimirskaya, 12, building 1;
• Exhibition hall “Solyanka VPA”, st. Solyanka, ½, p.2;
• Exhibition hall “Gallery A3”, Starokonyushenny Lane, 39;
• Exhibition Hall “Tushino”, Jana Rainis Boulevard, 19, building 1.

Other Russian cities also keep up with the capital and offer free entry to their museums so that residents of these cities and guests can become familiar with the history of the city, country and achievements in the field of science and art. Among such cities is St. Petersburg.

What museums in St. Petersburg can you visit for free in winter?

In St. Petersburg there is no tradition of opening the doors of their museum institutions for free during the entire New Year holidays. Here you can visit museums for free, usually once a month on a certain day.

In order to inspire you to spend the New Year holidays educationally, we have compiled a list of museums in Northern capital that will charge you with new emotions for the whole year:

The New Year holidays, one might say, have just begun. Behind New year's night and January 1 is difficult for many, which means it’s time to think about how to spend time interestingly and usefully. In St. Petersburg, the most popular place where crowds of tourists and local residents, there will be a Hermitage museum.

Russians will have a whole week on vacation at the beginning of 2018 - government agencies I only go to work on the morning of January 9th. Of course, many work regardless of the established schedule, because residents of the country simply cannot do without some services and goods for a long time.

At the same time, even those who are busy at work strive to get out of the house on New Year or Christmas and go to the museum, and even more so, the most important and large-scale museum Russia is a great idea for spending time.

Opening hours of the Hermitage Museum during the New Year holidays

The museum is one of those structures that did not go on a ten-day vacation. It was closed only on January 1st. In general, the working week began on January 2 and will continue until Christmas.

As it became known, the museum will also be closed on January 7, the Feast of the Nativity of Christ.

On other days the museum waits for visitors regular schedule— Monday is closed, Tuesday and Friday from 10:30 to 21:00, other days from 10:30 to 18:00. It is important to remember that in the city holidays there will be many people wanting to visit the Hermitage and you need to be prepared to stand in line for an hour or two.

In the Hermitage they are preparing for the New Year very seriously - the halls are decorated with old toys, the Christmas trees are decorated magnificently and solemnly. By the way, placing several New Year trees in the museum has become a good tradition - it originated in the times of the Romanovs, when each of the members royal family dedicated Christmas tree within the walls of the building.

At the beginning of the month, a separate hall was opened in the museum, which displays costumes and outfits different eras and peoples - the exposition will also function on holidays, and its visit will not leave either adults or children indifferent.

From December 23 to January 14 inclusive, a special program dedicated to the New Year and Christmas - “We draw in the Hermitage” will give unforgettable memories, charge you with magical festive mood and will prove to be quite a pleasant pastime for people of different ages.

By the way, on the first Thursday of every month the museum opens its doors to visitors completely free of charge, so the holiday is just around the corner - in 2018, the first free day falls on January 4.

The Hermitage in St. Petersburg - address, how to get there

The Hermitage is located in the very center of St. Petersburg, on Palace Square. The nearest metro station is Admiralteyskaya. When exiting the metro, turn left and walk a few meters to Malaya Morskaya Street. Turn right and walk a few meters to Nevsky Prospekt. You need to go left along Nevsky Prospekt and you will find yourself on Palace Square. The entrance to the Hermitage is located on Palace Square.

You can also walk from the Nevsky Prospekt / Gostiny Dvor stations. From the metro, walk along Nevsky Prospekt towards the Admiralty to Bolshaya Morskaya Street. At the intersection of Bolshaya Morskaya and Nevsky Prospekt you will see the arch of the General Staff building, through which you will get to Palace Square. Entrance to the museum from Palace Square.

Ticket prices and visiting rules:

• for citizens of Russia and Belarus - 400 rubles;
• for pensioners (citizens of Russia), children and students (from any country) - free;
• for foreign citizens (including CIS countries) - 700 rubles;
• amateur photography – free of charge. Shooting using a tripod or using flash is prohibited;
• free visit- the first Thursday of every month and December 7 (Hermitage Day) for all categories of visitors.

During the New Year holidays, the Hermitage was visited by 95,559 people, which is almost 12,000 people a day.

During the same period in 2015, the Hermitage was visited by 80,826 people, an average of about 9,000 people per day. Moreover, on the traditional free day - the first Thursday of the month - the Hermitage was visited by 16,593 people! For comparison, on the same day last year, 8,826 people came to the museum. The most visited were January 5, 6 and 7 - 15,079, 14,601 and 16,593 people, respectively. During the holidays, in addition to the main exhibitions, the Hermitage hosted 17 temporary exhibitions.

Extended days

IN new year holidays The Hermitage was open until 21.00 for three days in a row. In addition to Wednesday and Friday, January 6 and 8, days when the Hermitage can always be visited in the evening, the museum made a gift to St. Petersburg residents and guests of the city - on Christmas Day, January 7, the museum was also open until 21.00. It was on these days that 42,753 people visited the Hermitage, which is approximately 45% of all visitors during the entire New Year holidays.

Free day

In 2016, the traditional free day - the first Thursday of the month - coincided with Christmas. On this day, the museum extended its work until 21 hours, which was reported more than once on the museum’s website and in in social networks. Unfortunately, in the morning there was a huge queue at the entrance to the Hermitage, but after 18 o’clock in the Main museum complex you could enter without queuing.

On this day, 16,593 people visited the Hermitage, 5,740 people visited the General Headquarters. The main headquarters is also part of the Hermitage, and now it presents famous collections impressionists and post-impressionists, Faberge memory rooms, contemporary art rooms, and much more. Please note that usually the queue at the General Headquarters is much shorter on any day (including free days). During the holidays, 24,671 people got acquainted with the exhibitions in the General Staff building - this is only 26% of total number visitors.

Problem with queues

The Hermitage apologizes to all those who had to stand in line on the frosty day of January 7 at the Main Museum Complex of the Hermitage. During the winter holidays we encountered force majeure circumstances - very coldy, because of which the ticket terminals were not working, and a large number of people wishing to get to the Hermitage on January 7. Please note that, in accordance with safety requirements, the Hermitage can accommodate 6,115 visitors at a time, so we could not let everyone who was freezing on the street inside the museum - after all, this is a matter of safety for both the visitors themselves and museum exhibits. We also cannot allow visitors into the museum without a ticket, even if it is free - this is a mandatory document, necessary, among other things, for the Hermitage’s reporting to the Ministry of Culture. In addition, do not forget that the Main Museum Complex is imperial palace, which is not intended to receive such large quantity people at the same time, and queues accumulate at the entrance to museums in all countries, including cold ones. We make every effort to ensure that our visitors feel comfortable when visiting the museum.

January 7 and 8 in the Big Courtyard Winter Palace free hot tea was offered to visitors standing in line (a story about this on the St. Petersburg TV channel). In addition, during the New Year holidays, the partners of the Our Peter museum opened additional cafes in the General Staff Building and the Rastrelli Gallery (along with a constantly operating Internet cafe).

It was decided to let children into the museum so that they would not stand and wait in the cold, and to gather them on the Ambassadorial Stairs until their parents bought tickets for themselves.

Once again, we draw your attention to the fact that in order to avoid standing in line at the Main Museum Complex, you can first visit the General Headquarters or the Winter Palace of Peter I. We also recommend, if possible, that those categories of visitors for whom admission to the museum is free not to visit the Hermitage on a free day always - pensioners of the Russian Federation, children of preschool and school age, students educational institutions, students (regardless of citizenship)!

Internet tickets

On the website of our partners www.hermitageshop.ru it is possible to buy a ticket online to avoid queues at the museum ticket office. During the New Year holidays, the Hermitage faced an unprecedented number of visitors who bought Internet tickets, and we were unable to cope with this situation. The e-Voucher must be exchanged for admission ticket to the museum at a special ticket office, which is at this moment only one. A line began to form at this ticket office, which (due to an oversight by the Hermitage staff) was joined by people standing at the ticket office for regular tickets. Another problem has arisen - buyers of online tickets, unfortunately, do not read the information on the voucher. In addition to the rules for exchanging a voucher for a ticket, it contains the addresses and contacts of the organization that sells tickets online. Problems with Internet tickets are solved by the employees of www.hermitageshop.ru, but almost none of the buyers contacted them. In addition, work is currently underway to optimize the use of Internet tickets. In the near future, tickets will no longer need to be changed; passage through the turnstiles will be carried out using barcodes. The possibility of opening a separate entrance for visitors with electronic tickets is also being considered.

The problem with speculators

The Hermitage has long been faced with speculators and fraudsters in the museum. They show particular impudence on days of free visits. Unfortunately, we cannot influence this - it remains on the conscience of these people. It is very difficult to catch such a person by the hand, much less punish him in any way (story about speculators on the Life78 TV channel). Dear visitors, do not buy tickets by hand, much less a place in the queue or cloakroom!

Announcements in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace

In the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace, visitors are regularly informed via loudspeaker about the approximate waiting time in line. In addition, the museum staff constantly offers to visit the General Headquarters (information about the General Headquarters also hangs on banners in the courtyard). In addition, a warning was periodically broadcast that you should not buy tickets in person.

You can find out which museums offer their visitors free entry during the New Year holidays 2019, as well as get acquainted with their detailed work schedules. short review, prepared by our capital guides.

Catalog of free museums in Moscow

For Muscovites, who on New Year's Day pay attention not only to the entertainment, but also to the cultural component of this wonderful holiday, the event, annually held by the capital's mayor's office and the Department of Culture of Russia, is a real gift.

Thanks to the presence of hundreds of historical, military and cultural museums, the choice of citizens and guests of the capital is simply enormous. However, before devoting your leisure time to visiting museums, you should familiarize yourself in advance with the list of institutions that offer free admission benefits. It is equally important to find out the exact schedule of their work during the New Year holidays.

For example, some museums are only open on certain days and even hours. The list of such objects includes the Moscow Ethnographic Museum, which can be accessed only on the first Thursday of the month and strictly until 17:00 local time. In 2019, the institution’s working day falls on January 3rd. Unlike the Ethnographic Museum, you can come to the Museum of the History of Photography any day of the week, except weekends.

As for the working schedule, most of the free museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg will open their doors from January 8th. In total, over 90 museum institutions will be open during the New Year holidays, including exhibition halls and memorial apartments. Some of them will only be accessible by special (preliminary) registration. In order not to miss your chance, you need to visit the official website of the museum you are interested in in advance and carefully read the list of services it provides.

A preliminary list of the most popular museums in Moscow, admission to which is free for children and adults, is as follows:

• "Provision stores" ( architectural complex), Zubrovsky Boulevard, 2;
• "Lefortovo" (history museum), st. Kryukovskaya, 23;
• Garden Ring Museum (14 Mira Avenue, building 10);
• “Old English Court” (Varvarka, 4A);
• Tretyakov Gallery (Lavrushensky Lane, 10);
• Museum of Archeology (Manezhnaya Square, 1A);
• Gilyarovsky Exhibition Center (Stoleshnikov Lane, 9, building 1);
• Museum of Heroes of the USSR and Russia (Bolshaya Cheremushinskaya, 24, building 3);
• “House on the Embankment” (local history museum), st. Serafimovicha, 2, entrance 1;
• State Museum of Defense of Moscow (Michurinsky Prospekt, 3);
• State Darwin Museum (Vavilova, 57);
• “Tsaritsyno” (Iuzeum-reserve), st. Dolskaya, 1;
• Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics (111 Mira Avenue);
• "Izmailovo" (museum-estate), town named after. Bauman, 2;
• Memorial apartment of A. Pushkin (Arbat, building 53);
• N. Gogol House (research library and memorial museum), Nikitsky Boulevard, 7A;
• State Museum of S. Yesenin (Bolshoi Strochenovsky Lane, 24);
• M. Bulgakov Museum (Sadovaya, 10, apt. 50);
• "New Manege" ( showroom), Geogrievsky lane 3, building 3;
• Moscow Museums of Contemporary Art (Ermolaevsky Lane, 17, Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10, Tverskoy Boulevard, 9);
• “History of the Russian Navy” (museum and memorial complex), st. Freedoms, possessions 44-48.
• “History of the T-34 tank” (museum complex), Moscow region, Sholokhova village, 88A.

It is worth noting that the presented list is only a small part of the capital’s museums that will be available for free admission in January 2019. A full list of them can be found on the official portal of the Moscow Department of Culture.

Free museums of St. Petersburg

In the Northern capital, popular museums will open their doors only on certain days in January. Below is a catalog of museums that you can visit for free during the winter holidays:

• State Hermitage: free admission for visitors: January 3, 2019 from 10:30 to 17:00;
• Russian Ethnographic Museum: January 3, 2019 - admission for university cadets, January 6 - for children under 16 years old;
• A. Menshikov Palace: 01/03/2019;
• Museum-Kunstkamera: daily, except holidays; reduced entry for children only preschool age, orphans and members of large families;
• "Russian Museum": daily; preferential entry is provided to persons included in one of the preferential categories, with full list which can be found on the website of the Russian Department of Culture);
• A. Akhmatova Museum: daily; free entry for university students;
  — Gallery of Contemporary Art (Mokhovaya, 18): visiting hours: Tuesday - Saturday, from 100:00 to 19:30;
• Sampsonievsky Cathedral (museum-monument): daily from 10:00 to 19:00;
• Art Center (Pushkinskaya, 10): Wednesday - Sunday, opening hours: 15:00 - 19:00;
• Museum of the History of Photography: opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 13:00 to 17:00;
• Kronstadt Maritime Museum: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, entrance for visitors is open from 11:00 to 18:00;
• Apartment-Museum of V. Nabokov: daily; free entry during opening hours.

WITH full list museums that can be visited for free during the winter holidays can be found both on thematic forums and on the official resource of the Russian Department of Culture.

The Hermitage is one of the largest art museums world, the exhibition of which is located in more than 350 halls. The ceremonial interiors of the palace occupy a special place.

The State Hermitage has a collection of over three million works of art and monuments of world culture. It includes painting, graphics, sculpture and objects applied arts, archaeological finds and numismatic material.

It is no secret that guests of the city, of course, plan to visit it during their stay in St. Petersburg, so we offer you information about the work of the museum and its upcoming exhibitions.

"Hermitage", opening hours on New Year's holidays, 2018: schedule, how to get there?

During the New Year holidays, the State Hermitage Museum was closed on January 1, and January 7, 2018 will also be a day off at the museum.

On other days according to the usual schedule - Monday is a day off, Tuesday and Friday from 10:30 to 21:00, other days from 10:30 to 18:00.

It is important to remember that in the city on holidays there will be many people wanting to visit the Hermitage and you must be prepared to stand in line for an hour or two.

Address: Palace Square, no. 2, Hermitage

Directions: St. metro station "Admiralteyskaya", "Nevsky Prospekt", " Gostiny Dvor"; by ground transport to the "State Hermitage" stop.

"Hermitage", opening hours on New Year's holidays, 2018: poster of upcoming events

At the beginning of the month, a separate hall was opened in the museum, in which costumes and outfits of different eras and peoples are presented - the exhibition will also function on holidays, and its visit will not leave either adults or children indifferent.

From December 23 to January 14 inclusive, a special program dedicated to the New Year and Christmas is taking place in the museum’s foyer - “We Paint in the Hermitage” will give unforgettable memories, fill you with a magical holiday mood and turn out to be quite a pleasant pastime for people of different ages.