This year, the All-Russian campaign Night Museums falls overnight from 20 to 21 May. Every year more than 200 museums, galleries, exhibition halls and art centers take part in this festival of art and culture. Many of them do not just open doors to visitors at night, but also prepare special projects.
We picked up eight interesting ways to spend this night.
Dange in Tretyakovka
Dange in Tretyakovka
In May, the thaw will continue on the street and in the Tretyakov Gallery. This night is waiting for you a music program "Fars-major concert" during which the main songs of the era will be performed actors of the theater of Nations. For children and parents, thematic master classes will be held in the creative workshop of the museum. In the courtyard will open International Foodcourt dedicated to the VI World Festival of Youth Students in 1957 and an interactive photowon will work, where all visitors will be able to photograph in the interior × 60s. And by the evening, the dance floor will work, where under living music, accompanied by professional dancers, it will be possible to master such dances like Foxtrot, Jiv and Lipsi.
When: from 18.00 to 24.00 (entrance until 23.00)
Where: ul. Crimean shaft, 10
Visit Antonio Ortiz lecture
Visit Antonio Ortiz lecture
The Institute of Russian Realistic Arts recently held a complete reconstruction of his halls, updated the permanent exposition and organized an architectural course for children, so it is no coincidence that the organizers chose the topic "Museum of the Future" for the night of Museums, inviting the lecture of the famous Spanish architect Antonio Ortiz. He will tell about the projects of reconstruction, redesign, including the renovation of Reynxmuseum in Amsterdam, to which Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, according to admission, "returned the former magnificence." Together with Antonio Ortiz, Russian experts in the field of architects will take part in the meeting, as well as those for whom and the Museums of the Future are the children participating in the architectural course Irry "from the project to the subject." Also in the Irry program on this day, free excursions, master classes, the fair of young Russian designers and the quest on the territory of the former sitzenabiva manufactory, which will be in the format of theatrical performance.
The whole program is free. For participation requires a preliminary registration.
When: 11.00 - 00.00
Where: Derbenvskaya st., 7 p. 31
Visit the first photobook festival in Russia
Visit the first photobook festival in Russia
In May, the center of photography them. The Lumiere brothers holds his first photobook festival - PhotobookFest 2017. Therefore, the exhibitions of the best photo books from all over Russia are waiting for the nights of the museums - "the new reversal", the exhibition "USSR is building socialism. Masterpieces of the Soviet photo books of the 1930s "and the work of the winners of the prestigious photocondunce Paris photo aperture.
At 5:00 pm, the presentation of the book of Leslie Martin (USA, Aperture Publishing) and a lecture "Photographer`s Cookbook. Success recipes: from Ancelney Adams to Stephen Shore. "
And at 20:00 Daria Tuminas (Holland / Russia) will perform a lecture "Film Fishing. What connects the cinema and a photographic book? ".
When: from 17:00
Where: Bolotnaya Nab., 3, p. One
Arrange a fight with pillows in the museum
Arrange a fight with pillows in the museum
For the most inquisitive boys and girls, the Museum of Interesting Sciences Experimentanium organizes a special evening program that will last until 23:00. You are waiting for a lecture on the optical properties of crystals from Pavel's scientist, the legendary battle of the pillows right in the walls of the museum, as well as the best show of the experimentality at a special price - 100 rubles (Tesla show, show Luminum, Mendeleev Show and Show Nitro).
But the main event of the evening is the team tournament "kilogram of the mind." The most youngest participant in the team must be at least 3 years old, and the oldest one is not more than 99. Exhibits, experiments, experiments and tests are waiting for those who are not afraid of complex and simple tasks. The winners will get gifts from the Museum of the Experimentanium Museum - board games, books and scientific kits, as well as certificates for visiting Museums Experimentanium and live systems.
Participation: All team members need to purchase only entrance tickets to the museum.
When: 17:30 - 23:00
Where: Leningrad Prosp., D. 80, K.11
Visit a pajama party with Darth Vader and Transformers
Visit a pajama party with Darth Vader and Transformers
Transformers, Spiderman, Darth Vader and horrors of horror films all together on a pajama party? This is possible only one night a year! Museum uprising of cars opens the doors until 00:00, and those who will come in pajamas will receive a 50% discount!
Visitors are waiting for 14 thematic halls with the heroes of Russian fairy tales, fantastic animals and cars, as well as the heroes of the most popular films of modern. In the museum you can run, talk loudly, taking pictures, and some exhibits are specifically designed to touch them.
When: 11:00 - 00:00
Where: Volgograd Avenue d. 42 Corp. 2.
Cheat for hockey players
Cheat for hockey players
This year, the Hockey Museum takes part in the night of museums for the first time. Those who come here after 19.00 are waiting for a free excursion for the exhibition "Red Car. Pages of history ", dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the domestic hockey. Also, anyone can try on hockey equipment and feel like a real goalkeeper of a red car. In the program, watching the film "Hockey Games" and cartoons on hockey themes and joint viewing of semifinal matches of the World Hockey Championship-2017 in a friendly atmosphere and shouts "Puck, Puck." Visitors are also waiting for a table hockey tournament with prizes from the museum and lottery.
When: 12:00 - 23:00
Where: Avtozavodskaya Street, 23
See the Theater Machinery
See the Theater Machinery
Not only museums open their doors on this night - the "Helikon-Opera" theater will hold a sightseeing tour of the noble manor of the Gleb-Streshnevaya-Shakhovsky at the Big Nikitskaya street. Guests will see the auditorium "Stravinsky", its unique architectural and acoustic solutions. And for the first time the theater will show the audience their scenic engineering. Also during the excursion, visitors will show artifacts, furniture and interior items associated with well-known people speaking on this scene. So, in the hall dedicated to Elena Exena, the audience will see a personal piano singer and ancient furniture from its Moscow apartment, the historical poster of the "La Scala" theater and the costume of the Great Italian tenor "Mario del Monaco".
Participation in the excursion is free, by appointment.
When: from 20:00
Where: Big Nikitskaya, 19/16
Go to the fair of unusual things
Go to the fair of unusual things
The ArtPlay design center prepared several exhibitions for visitors. Visitors are waiting for the multimedia exhibition "from Monet to Malevich. Great modernists, "dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of Edgar Degi and including the work of sixteen of the most significant representatives of the modernism era - Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Fields of Gaugugen, Hanri Russo, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent Van Gogh, Vasily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. In total, about 5,000 works more than 20 museums will be shown. In addition, visitors will be able to see the exhibition from the "Nude Nude: Nu, Nude, Nudo, Nu, Desnudo (end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century)", which received a special name "Furious Culture". Guests are also waiting for the eco-room and fair of unusual things "Art Weekend", the products for which the masters are made specifically manually. Here and non-bank clothes, designer toys, handmade soap, interior items, entertaining artifacts, notebooks, postcards and much more.
Where: Lower Syromyatsky Ul., 10