Night of Museums. History, reasons for appearance and prospects

"Night of Museums".

“Night of Museums” is an international cultural and educational event, during which museums and other cultural institutions are open until late in the evening or even at night, and visitors have the opportunity to view exhibitions using a single city ticket, often free of charge. In many countries, the event is held several times a year; there are no general regulations for its implementation.

History of the promotion

The first "Long Night of Museums" (German: Lange Nacht der Museen) was organized in 1997 in twelve museums in Berlin. In 1999, similar events were organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. In 2005, the Council of Europe approved the idea put forward by France to hold an annual international event, in which over 3,500 museums from more than 40 countries currently participate. The pan-European event is being held under the patronage of the Council of Europe and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) on the weekend closest to International Museum Day on May 18.

"Night of Museums" in Russia

Russia joined the action on April 20, 2002 - then the Krasnoyarsk Museum Center held the “Museum Night” for the first time, which was visited by 5 thousand people. In 2006, St. Petersburg and Kazan held their “Night of Museums”; in 2007, the event was held for the first time in Moscow (in the capital it was called “Night at the Museum”) and Yekaterinburg. Many cultural institutions prepare exhibition and excursion programs specifically for the date of the event, but a significant part of Russian museums are open on this day until 21:00 or 23:00 and still close for the night.

In 2015, the “Night of Museums” event received federal status and began to be held centrally, with the support of the Ministry of Culture. The event was attended by federal, departmental and private museums across the country.

In 2016, the event took place on May 21-22, and its main theme was the Year of Russian Cinema. As part of the event, with the support of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), a “Night of History” was also held, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the RVIO. In addition, the Ministry of Culture recommended that museums hold “The History of One Exhibit” events. In St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad (in this city it is called “Museum Night”), venues participating in the federal action on May 21 worked on a single ticket.

In 2017, the main theme in the Russian Federation was the 200th anniversary of the revolutionary events of 1917, while in a number of museums events were dedicated to the Year of Ecology in Russia. The campaign covered over 2 thousand museums in more than 80 regions of the country. With a single entrance ticket you could visit the museums and galleries participating in the “Night...” of St. Petersburg (110 sites), Yekaterinburg (five of 29 sites to choose from the ticket holder) and Kaliningrad (seven of 15 sites to choose from).

"Night at the Museum" in Moscow in 2017

On May 20, more than 300 venues, including the capital's museums, galleries, art schools, art centers and exhibition halls, were open in the evening and at night; admission to most events was free (with pre-registration). According to information from the head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, in total, more than 2 thousand 100 events in the Russian capital were attended by over 520 thousand people.

The most visited were the Kolomenskoye Museum-Estate (68 thousand 420 people), the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (66 thousand 200 people), the Museum of Moscow (13 thousand 900 people), the State Historical Museum (10 thousand 300 people ) and the Darwin Museum (9 thousand 900 people).

Promotion 2018

This year's theme is formulated as “Masterpieces from the Vaults” - museums will show unique exhibits, many of which have never been shown to the public before. According to the Ministry of Culture, all regions of the Russian Federation are participating in the event. More than 200 sites will operate in Moscow, 118 sites in St. Petersburg. The grand opening of the All-Russian event "Night of Museums" will be held at the branch of the State Literary Museum - the Museum of the Silver Age. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky will take part in it.

photo by Maya Simakina Out of time and space. How the “Night of Museums” took place in Moscow “Great objects of art are great only because they are accessible and understandable to everyone.” Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Over the past two centuries, this statement of the great Russian writer has been absolutely true. Now, perhaps, I would argue.

In the third millennium, the very definition of “art” has become so blurred that it is already difficult to find the very line where art ends and science or computer technology begins. It is no longer enough for a modern viewer to simply walk through quiet halls and silently contemplate the masterpieces of world painting or architecture. The modern viewer wants action, he wants to be a participant in the process. See art, hear art, be part of this very art.

This year I spent the “Night of Museums” in the capital and walked through three completely different museum sites. Evening gradually turning into night. Sleepy rainy morning. Three museums: MARS Center for Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery and Artplay Design Center. The future is already here

The MARS Center for Contemporary Art is perhaps one of the most unusual museum venues. Fundamentally new art formats are presented here: audiovisual art, video art, video installations, digital art and VR art (virtual reality). On the “Night of Museums,” MARS delighted with a “space” program and a DJ set from the fashionable Russian trumpeter Maxim Pustovit.

Despite the tight timing, I spent two unforgettable hours in MARS. See the world through the eyes of an alien? Find yourself on another planet? Find out what neural networks look like? The impossible becomes possible thanks to the Generative Gallery exhibition.

Seven works of digital artists from around the world in video projection format. Seven meditative, mesmerizing, completely transforming projects.

A “living” audiovisual essence is how the artists defined the main idea of ​​the exhibition. It can exist simultaneously in different places, uniting artists and viewers anywhere in the world.

Who said that a painting has to be two-dimensional? On canvas? In frame? Is the image flat? Completely optional.

The exhibition “Virtual Mirrors of Konstantin Khudyakov” presents works with a 3D effect. Strange, whimsical compositions, voluminous and glowing in the dark, come to life in the mirrors when you approach them. Do you think that creating your own virtual avatar is something out of science fiction? No no and one more time no. At the exhibition “My Virtual Sculpture” everyone can become an artist in virtual space and create their own sculpture.

We put on a virtual reality helmet, step over the laser grid (it doesn’t hurt at all, but a little creepy at first), go to the red dot and.. see ourselves. You are in the matrix. You and your virtual sculpture. I really wanted to stay in the “future” a little longer, listen to space sets, but I had to move on.

“Eternal classics” adjusted for time and trends.

The next cultural stop was the New Tretyakov Gallery. As the capital's media noted, this year on the “Night of Museums” the New Tretyakov Gallery set a record for attendance, surpassing even the results of the “old” Tretyakov Gallery. It is noted that the museum on Krymsky Val was visited by more than 10 thousand people. So what attracted you to what seemed to be one of the most conservative museum sites in the capital? And the fact that she has long ceased to be conservative.

The museum has become much more modern, more understandable for the mass of young viewers. That ominous silence characteristic of old-school museums was replaced by a noisy, young crowd animatedly discussing the exhibitions. In the courtyard of the museum, hip-hop and r'n'b tracks were playing, young guys were dancing.

The New Tretyakov Gallery pleased us with an interesting cultural program for the whole family. For children - workshops and master classes, for adults - a talk show about the culture of the 2000s with the participation of Denis Simachev, Andrey Bartenev and Tatyana Gevorkyan. The Tretyakov Gallery specially prepared an exhibition dedicated to the art of the 2000s for the event. The exhibition brought together completely different works from numerous styles and genres. From the large-scale canvases of Vinogradov and Dubossarsky with echoes of socialist realism, deliberately exaggerated and slightly absurd, to the wax Anna Kournikova jumping under a glass bell.

Monumental painting, strange art objects, graffiti, photographs - everything mixed in a slightly chaotic, but accurately reflecting the original culture of the first ten of the new millennium. On the eve of one of the expected events of 2018 - the World Cup - the Tretyakov Gallery organized an exhibition dedicated to sports in art, “Football and More.” The exhibition features works by famous Soviet artists and sculptors such as Alexander Deineka and Joseph Chaikov, who were passionate sports fans.

Soviet football players, hockey players, gymnasts. Slender, athletic athletes and basketball players. Strict statics and flexible dynamics. Closer to midnight, satisfied spectators, having received a powerful “cultural” charge, began to go home. Statistics don't lie, the numbers speak for themselves. More than 10 thousand visitors per “night” and most of them are those who have not yet turned 40. Make it in two hours

Morning has come and my night of museums is not over yet. The next cultural station was the Artplay design center.

Three multimedia exhibitions in one bottle. In two hours, the works of impressionist and modernist artists, the great and terrible Bosch and an explosive mixture of paintings by famous artists, seasoned with the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, float before your eyes.

What attracts the modern viewer to the format of multimedia exhibitions?

The secret is simple. You sit, lounging on a bean bag chair, and they show you, and in some places they also tell you. You can eat popcorn, drink coffee and take selfies, while at the same time paintings by famous artists float spectacularly on the screen, and even with musical accompaniment.

The characters on the canvases come to life. Degas's ballerinas whirl in dance, the abstract geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich becomes dynamic and three-dimensional, and Bosch's crazy world becomes clearer when it becomes possible to examine the triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in great detail.

Among the huge variety of formats, styles, genres and trends in art, every viewer can choose the art that catches and inspires, relaxes and makes you think, and expands the boundaries of the conscious and subconscious.

And as one of the great philosophers rightly noted: “Art is like nature. If you don't let it in the door, it will come in the window."

Many Moscow museums also opened their doors to visitors the night before, reports MIR 24 correspondent Elizaveta Generalova.

People were queuing at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts before dark. After all, the main theme of this year’s event is “Masterpieces from the Vaults.” Visitors to the exhibition were able to see things that were previously hidden in storage. For example, the sculpture “God Vishnu with those coming,” an engraving by Katsushika Hokusai, as well as the painting “Flight into Egypt” by Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

It was possible not only to admire the masterpieces from the storerooms, but also to learn their history. Special lectures were given by museum staff.

“In particular, I will be presenting a painting by the 17th century Spanish artist Murillo. She was exhibited in the Hermitage, Catherine bought her. Purely artistically, it is the final accent in Murillo’s work, since it is one of the master’s later works,” says Svetlana Zagorskaya, deputy head of the department of art of old masters of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

Members of the club of young art critics introduced the guests to the permanent exhibition. “I’m very interested in working with people, telling them something new about historical events, works of art,” says Victoria Spasenova, a member of the club of young art critics.

For this night, each museum prepared its own cultural program. While schoolchildren are conducting excursions in Pushkinsky, literally across the road, in the galleries of Ilya Glazunov, a ball is taking place.

Here you could immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the 19th century and, together with the participants of the historical reconstruction club, get acquainted with the rules of court etiquette. Everyone was also able to learn to dance the waltz, polonaise, mazurka and quadrille.

“I flew from the USA. I was very lucky to get to the Night of Museums. It’s great that here you can dance and get acquainted with the work of Russian artists,” says the tourist.

In Moscow, about 200 venues joined the “Night of Museums” event. Some of them had queues of many kilometers long. For example, in order to learn about the history of medicine, people were willing to wait at the entrance for four hours.

Under the guidance of medical students, one could perform a craniotomy with one’s own hands, sew up a wound and amputate a limb.

Visitors trained not only on dummies, but also on animal body parts. Overnight, three pigs became patients in the makeshift operating room.

“You can almost feel like a doctor from any era. Here we have a plague barber, a cabinet of curiosities, and 19th-century models showing various skin diseases. The pharmacy is medieval, where visitors prepare their own medicines,” says Konstantin Pashkov, head of the department of history of medicine at the Evdokimov Museum.

The guides admitted that this part of the exhibition is not for the faint of heart: two visitors fainted from what they saw. But they definitely had unforgettable impressions from this “Night of Museums”.

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This article is about an international museum action. About the film, see the article Night at the Museum

Night of Museums- an international event dedicated to International Museum Day, during which you can view museum exhibitions at night. On this night, many museums are open to visitors after sunset until almost morning. The main goal of the action is to show the resource, opportunities, and potential of modern museums, and to attract young people to museums.

The first “Night of Museums” was held in Berlin in 1997.

Chronology

In 2010, the action was held on the night of May 15-16.

In 2011, the action in Moscow took place on the night of May 14-15, and 159 city museums took part in the action. In addition to going to the museum, Muscovites were able to go on bus excursions around the city that night. 40 exhibition organizations took part in Yekaterinburg, opening 58 venues in the city. In total, the project “European Night of Museums in Yekaterinburg - 2011” was visited by 67,000 people.

In 2011, on the initiative of the Patron Foundation and the Living Water company, the leading museums of Orenburg joined the action for the first time, managing from 19:00 to 00:00 to receive a total of an incredible number of visitors for their history - about 3,000 people per day.

In 2012, the action took place on the night of May 19-20.

In 2013, the action took place on the night of May 18-19.

In 2014, the action took place on the night of May 17-18. There were 73 sites in Yekaterinburg (in 2011 - 58), which were visited by 95 thousand people (in 2011 - 67 thousand). Thus, we can state that the popularity of the campaign is growing in the fourth largest city in Russia.

2015

In 2015, the action took place on the night of May 16-17. Its main theme was a line from the work of Alexander Tvardovsky: “We fell for our Motherland, but it was saved.” The action will be timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Moscow

More than 250 cultural institutions (museums, galleries and art clusters) were opened.

For the ninth time, the initiator and organizer of “Night at the Museum” was the Moscow Department of Culture, which pays special attention to citywide events that shape the image of the capital and transform its sociocultural landscape.

The owl was chosen as the symbol of the museum night - the night bird encourages one to look at the “museum” life at dusk, outside the usual framework of perception of culture and time. Her special “Night Vision” allows you to see even the most hidden details and objects.

This year, “Night at the Museum” coincides with the Day of Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow - these events demonstrate new approaches to holding events in the field of culture. Day and night programs unite the cultural space of the capital - in addition to museums, galleries and art clusters, ancient estates, ministry buildings and other architectural monuments, usually inaccessible to the public, were opened to everyone from 10.00 (list of historical places participating in the project, available on the official website www.dninasledia.ru).

According to established tradition, art will take to the streets. On the territory of three pedestrian zones in Moscow, “Night Stations” will be organized - open multi-genre spaces, where events of the parallel cultural and educational program “Nights at the Museum” will take place. The central themes are the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Year of Literature. These same sites will become a platform for open communication between cultural institutions and guests of the event: the information centers of the “Night Stations” will talk about the most striking projects of museums, exhibition halls and other institutions over the past year. “Night stations” were open from 12:00 to 23:00 - a series of special events were provided for the youngest residents of the city.

For the first time, business spaces are involved in the context of “Night at the Museum” - on the eve of the event, special information stands will be installed in the largest business centers of Moscow, announcing the events of the event.

This year, “Night at the Museum” will offer a new opportunity for dialogue between citizens and cultural figures: for the first time in the history of the event, artists will invite guests to their workshops (the conditions for visiting the “Museum Apartments” will be announced on the official website of the event www.museumnight.org).

As part of the “Night at the Museum”, the “Night Guide School” will be opened for everyone who wants to become art volunteers and take direct part in the museum life of the capital. Applications for “admission” will be accepted on the official website of the promotion. Amateur night guides will be prepared by the winners and finalists of the competition of the Moscow Department of Culture “The Best Museum Worker-Tour Guide”.

The “Nights at the Museum” excursion program will continue with walks in the company of famous cultural and artistic figures through Moscow museums. Unusual tours will be held in the format of conversations with authoritative journalists - the voices of “star guides” can also be heard using special audio guides.

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In the evening of the same day, there was a lively conversation between the squadron officers at Denisov’s apartment.
“And I’m telling you, Rostov, that you need to apologize to the regimental commander,” said a tall staff captain with graying hair, a huge mustache and large features of a wrinkled face, turning to the crimson, excited Rostov.
Staff captain Kirsten was demoted to soldier twice for matters of honor and served twice.
– I won’t allow anyone to tell me that I’m lying! - Rostov screamed. “He told me I was lying, and I told him he was lying.” It will remain so. He can assign me to duty every day and put me under arrest, but no one will force me to apologize, because if he, as a regimental commander, considers himself unworthy of giving me satisfaction, then...
- Just wait, father; “Listen to me,” the captain interrupted the headquarters in his bass voice, calmly smoothing his long mustache. - In front of other officers, you tell the regimental commander that the officer stole...
“It’s not my fault that the conversation started in front of other officers.” Maybe I shouldn’t have spoken in front of them, but I’m not a diplomat. Then I joined the hussars, I thought that there was no need for subtleties, but he told me that I was lying... so let him give me satisfaction...
- This is all good, no one thinks that you are a coward, but that’s not the point. Ask Denisov, does this look like something for a cadet to demand satisfaction from the regimental commander?
Denisov, biting his mustache, listened to the conversation with a gloomy look, apparently not wanting to engage in it. When asked by the captain's staff, he shook his head negatively.
“You tell the regimental commander about this dirty trick in front of the officers,” the captain continued. - Bogdanych (the regimental commander was called Bogdanych) besieged you.
- He didn’t besiege him, but said that I was telling a lie.
- Well, yes, and you said something stupid to him, and you need to apologize.
- Never! - Rostov shouted.
“I didn’t think this from you,” the captain said seriously and sternly. “You don’t want to apologize, but you, father, not only before him, but before the entire regiment, before all of us, you are completely to blame.” Here's how: if only you had thought and consulted on how to deal with this matter, otherwise you would have drunk right in front of the officers. What should the regimental commander do now? Should the officer be put on trial and the entire regiment be soiled? Because of one scoundrel, the whole regiment is disgraced? So, what do you think? But in our opinion, not so. And Bogdanich is great, he told you that you are telling lies. It’s unpleasant, but what can you do, father, they attacked you yourself. And now, as they want to hush up the matter, because of some kind of fanaticism you don’t want to apologize, but want to tell everything. You are offended that you are on duty, but why should you apologize to an old and honest officer! No matter what Bogdanich is, he’s still an honest and brave old colonel, it’s such a shame for you; Is it okay for you to dirty the regiment? – The captain’s voice began to tremble. - You, father, have been in the regiment for a week; today here, tomorrow transferred to adjutants somewhere; you don’t care what they say: “there are thieves among the Pavlograd officers!” But we care. So, what, Denisov? Not all the same?
Denisov remained silent and did not move, occasionally glancing at Rostov with his shining black eyes.
“You value your own fanabery, you don’t want to apologize,” the headquarters captain continued, “but for us old men, how we grew up, and even if we die, God willing, we will be brought into the regiment, so the honor of the regiment is dear to us, and Bogdanich knows this.” Oh, what a road, father! And this is not good, not good! Be offended or not, I will always tell the truth. Not good!
And the headquarters captain stood up and turned away from Rostov.
- Pg "avda, chog" take it! - Denisov shouted, jumping up. - Well, G'skeleton! Well!
Rostov, blushing and turning pale, looked first at one officer, then at the other.
- No, gentlemen, no... don’t think... I really understand, you’re wrong to think about me like that... I... for me... I’m for the honor of the regiment. So what? I will show this in practice, and for me the honor of the banner... well, it’s all the same, really, I’m to blame!.. - Tears stood in his eyes. - I’m guilty, I’m guilty all around!... Well, what else do you need?...
“That’s it, Count,” the captain of staff shouted, turning around, hitting him on the shoulder with his big hand.
“I’m telling you,” Denisov shouted, “he’s a nice little guy.”
“That’s better, Count,” the headquarters captain repeated, as if for his recognition they were beginning to call him a title. - Come and apologize, your Excellency, yes sir.
“Gentlemen, I’ll do everything, no one will hear a word from me,” Rostov said in a pleading voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God, I can’t, whatever you want!” How will I apologize, like a little one, asking for forgiveness?
Denisov laughed.
- It's worse for you. Bogdanich is vindictive, you will pay for your stubbornness,” said Kirsten.
- By God, not stubbornness! I can’t describe to you what a feeling, I can’t...
“Well, it’s your choice,” said the headquarters captain. - Well, where did this scoundrel go? – he asked Denisov.
“He said he was sick, and the manager ordered him to be expelled,” Denisov said.
“It’s a disease, there’s no other way to explain it,” said the captain at the headquarters.
“It’s not a disease, but if he doesn’t catch my eye, I’ll kill him!” – Denisov shouted bloodthirstyly.
Zherkov entered the room.
- How are you? - the officers suddenly turned to the newcomer.
- Let's go, gentlemen. Mak surrendered as a prisoner and with the army, completely.
- You're lying!
- I saw it myself.
- How? Have you seen Mack alive? with arms, with legs?
- Hike! Hike! Give him a bottle for such news. How did you get here?
“They sent me back to the regiment again, for the devil’s sake, for Mack.” The Austrian general complained. I congratulated him on Mak’s arrival... Are you from the bathhouse, Rostov?
- Here, brother, we have such a mess for the second day.
The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by Zherkov. We were ordered to perform tomorrow.
- Let's go, gentlemen!
- Well, thank God, we stayed too long.

Kutuzov retreated to Vienna, destroying behind him bridges on the rivers Inn (in Braunau) and Traun (in Linz). On October 23, Russian troops crossed the Enns River. Russian convoys, artillery and columns of troops in the middle of the day stretched through the city of Enns, on this side and on the other side of the bridge.
The day was warm, autumn and rainy. The vast perspective that opened up from the elevation where the Russian batteries stood protecting the bridge was suddenly covered with a muslin curtain of slanting rain, then suddenly expanded, and in the light of the sun objects as if covered with varnish became visible far away and clearly. A town could be seen underfoot with its white houses and red roofs, a cathedral and a bridge, on both sides of which masses of Russian troops poured, crowding. At the bend of the Danube one could see ships, an island, and a castle with a park, surrounded by the waters of the Ensa confluence with the Danube; one could see the left rocky bank of the Danube covered with pine forests with the mysterious distance of green peaks and blue gorges. The towers of the monastery were visible, protruding from behind a pine forest that seemed untouched; far ahead on the mountain, on the other side of Ens, enemy patrols could be seen.