Promotion night at the museum event. Night of Museums

For the eleventh time in a row from May 20 to May 21 Russia will take place which has become an annual cultural event— night at the museum in 2017. It is traditionally held in a number of countries around the world. Its main goal is to introduce a wide audience, especially young people, to the history of national and world culture. For this purpose, the exhibitions of the vast majority of museums and galleries are shown on museum night for visitors completely free of charge.

Determining the date of the event

An event called “Night at the Museum” is dedicated to the celebration International Day museums, falling on May 18. For convenience large quantity wishing to become participants in an exciting and educational event The promotion is usually held on the day off closest to May 18th. The organizers were convinced to choose to hold the event on a weekend by such an important factor that potential visitors in this case will not be limited in time for visiting museums. Considering the fact that in 2017 May 18 falls on Thursday, the popular Night at the museum will take place on the night from Saturday to Sunday, namely from 20 to 21 May. The doors of participating museums, galleries and exhibition halls will be open to everyone from 18.00 to 24.00.

Traditional event program

Night at the Museum in 2017 is dedicated to Russia, correspondingly dedicated to this topic museum exhibitions will raise issues such as

environmental protection,
ecology,
the influence of these aspects on human life and the modern generation.

Night at the Museum in 2017 in Moscow suggests new things:

excursion programs,
concerts,
dedicated to the wonders of nature, as well as the struggle for survival due to natural disasters entertainment programs,
quests,
theatrical, literary and musical evenings.

The events included in the program will take place not only under the roof of museums, but also at venues under open air, in various estates and parks, in pedestrian areas of the central part of the city.

Popular museums participating in the annual event

About a hundred museums and galleries prepare their own scenarios for the “Night at the Museum” event in Russia every year. different directions. Six months before the actual event, institutions intending to take part in it fill out applications. Already in April 2017, various sources announced a list of institutions and the action programs they proposed.

In the capital of the state, those who take part in the event every year are extremely popular.

Moscow Kremlin,
Bulgakov House,
Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow Museum contemporary art,
Pushkin Museum,
Zoological Museum of Moscow State University

There is great interest especially among foreign tourists evokes a journey through Moscow estates, famous for their history, among which the Tsaritsyno estate museum plays a special role.

The capital of culture attracts visitors with a program in the most visited areas

Akhmatova House-Museum,
Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic,
Artillery Museum,
botanical garden,
zoo.

The organizers of the event in the mentioned and other museums, in addition to standard exhibitions, will offer visitors:

unique author's excursions,
master classes,
lecture halls,
historical reconstructions,
demonstration of art projects,
installations,
theatrical shows.

In addition to museums, even the embassies of some countries located in Moscow took part in the action, whose representatives gave tours of the premises and spoke about their activities.

Single ticket to Night at the Museum

Since in one night the natives of the city and the numerous tourists who arrive here have a unique opportunity to visit several museum institutions in a row and get the maximum impressions from what they see, the organizers of the event have developed a single ticket that allows you to attend all the events of the famous “Night” without exception. The cost of such a ticket is 400 rubles. The holder of such a ticket will attend thematic excursions and exhibitions provided for in the program, choosing the format of the establishments to his taste:

from 6 pm to midnight,
from 6 pm to 6 am.

Transfer of tourists

To ensure comfortable movement of action participants around the city, additional bus routes serving excursionists are being introduced in the capital during the “Night at the Museum” period, by order of the city administration. Transportation of museum visitors directly to the site from some metro stations is also organized. Visitors can get to estate-museums and museum-reserves by special excursion buses.

“Night at the Museum” serves the best possible way to educate and develop the culture of the broad masses of the population.

The eleventh “Night at the Museum” will take place in the capital on May 20. More than 200 museums, galleries, art schools and art centers will participate in it.

In the Central Manege, the event will begin with a lecture on sound installations, and will continue with an author’s tour of one of the exhibitions and a concert modern music. The Moscow Planetarium invites you to watch the stars, the State Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev - get acquainted with nocturnal animals. All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts folk art organizes creative master classes, concerts and performances.

Flash mobs and performances in front of queues

Events in an unusual format will be held under the motto “Time of Discovery”. The Hermitage Garden will turn into a playground for the event educational festival"Open lectures". Representatives of Moscow museums will dedicate their stories different topics- from audio visual arts to the physiology of memory. Among the lecturers are art historian and chief curator of the avant-garde center of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Andrei Sarabyanov, artist and curator of the “New Space” of the Theater of Nations Vera Martynova and others.

The special event venues for the campaign will be “secret” places—Moscow museums that deserve special attention. Guests will be able to look at the capital as a new, unfamiliar city - with wooden houses and front gardens, quiet apartments. Here they will organize creative meetings, discussions, concerts and theatrical performances.

Already on the way to the museum, you can get to a pop-up festival with flash mobs, street orchestra concerts and performances. From 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., performers will drive around the city in cars and perform in front of the main Night at the Museum venues, where the longest lines line up.

Author's excursions and bus route

On May 20, the secrets of the capital will be revealed on 10 free walking tours. They will run from Prechistenka to Pokrovka, from Sokolniki Park to Zamoskvorechye.

Series museum excursions will be held by those who fly into space, stage plays, go on expeditions or work on television. This year everyone will be able to join them. The author's excursions will be available online and recorded on the project website.

A free bus route will connect six iconic Moscow museums. Mobile coffee shops with burgers and hot drinks will be located next to them. The promotion schedule will appear on the website, which will launch on May 12.

Nightly lectures and film screenings, stargazing and foxtrot master classes are the most interesting events“Nights of Museums - 2017” in Moscow in the selection of the portal “Culture.RF”.

"Night of Museums" at the Tretyakov Gallery

The State Tretyakov Gallery has prepared varied program at several sites. The main building will host an exhibition dedicated to the muses of artists of the XX - beginning of the XXI century: Valentin Serov, Ilya Repin, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin and others. The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val will host a master class on foxtrot, lipsey and jive to the accompaniment of thaw songs performed by actors from the Theater of Nations. Also, everyone will 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.

“Night of Museums” at the Multimedia Art Museum

"Night of Museums" at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin

"Night of Museums" at the Museum of Cosmonautics

“Night of Museums” at the Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts

“Night of Museums” at the Andrei Rublev Museum

"Night of Museums" at the Bulgakov House

“Night of Museums” at the Ostafyevo Museum - “Russian Parnassus”

An exhibition of exotic animals, an interactive lesson “Everything that is unknown is terribly interesting”, a meeting “Flower smells under a microscope” - such events will be presented by the State Biological Museum. K.A. Timiryazeva. Museum guests will guess the animals by their voices, learn the details of caring for subtropical and tropical plants, see what pollen looks like, and make a floral souvenir as a keepsake.

The review is compiled based on materials provided.