According to the official website of the city's mayor, the event “Moscow Museum Week” will be held in the capital from December 15 to 21.
“On the third week of every month, museums, exhibition halls and galleries participating in the Moscow Museums Week campaign have a day when you can visit their sites for free. This year, some institutions change the tour dates for the convenience of visitors. For free visits, you must register – issue an electronic ticket in the Mosbilet service using Mos ID (account on mos.ru),” the announcement said.
On Monday, December 15, visitors are welcomed to the panoramic museum of the Battle of Borodino. There you can see panoramic views by Franz Roubaud, works of battle painting and decorative and applied art, weapons, uniforms and equipment, military household items of the Russian and French armies of the early 19th century. In addition, until the end of December, the museum is organizing the exhibition “Checkmate in three moves in a complex game”, which offers to consider three battles from the time of the Napoleonic Wars as if they were an epic game of chess. And the exhibition “Ten centuries in military formations” presents a unique multi-volume publication “Historical description of the costumes and weapons of the Russian army”.
The Museum of Multimedia Arts is free on Tuesdays. Exhibition “Ivan Filatov. History of the village of Izhevsk. The years 1890–1930” is dedicated to the work of an outstanding photographer who recorded the life of the village of Izhevsk in the Ryazan region during the imperial and Soviet times. Its inhabitants, 29 years before the abolition of serfdom, bought themselves from the landowner Nikolai Demidov; in its heyday there were several brick factories, three churches parish, one model school, three schools, one public bank and one insurance agency.
“Thank you for being with us” – exhibition of contemporary artist, sculptor and musician Vladimir Grieg, nominee for the Kandinsky Prize and Sergei Kuryokhin. The exhibition presents works made using the complex glass bead mosaic technique on canvas that Grieg has worked with in recent years.
On Wednesday you can go to the AS Pushkin State Museum and its branches: Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment, VL Pushkin House Museum, AS Pushkin Memorial Apartment, IS Turgenev's House Museum and exhibition hall on the Arbat.
All galleries of the association of Moscow Galleries are also open with free admission. For example, in the exhibition hall on the street. Academician Varga is organizing an exhibition of paintings by a graduate of Moscow State Textile University named AN Kosygin and a member of the Moscow Artists Union Ksenia Lyubavina “Summer Echo”. And in the Izmailovo gallery you can see the collective exhibition “Silent Fishes” – paintings, graphics and objects that reveal images of living silence and meaningful silence.
Lena Krasotina, Maxim Smirennomudrensky, Alexander Rusov, Evgenia Matveeva, Tatyana Timofeeva, Alexander Vorokhob, Natalya Perminova, Olga Kukina, Anna Katukhina, Kirill Grishanov, Vladimir Filatov and Sofia Pyatnitskaya presented their work.
Thursday, December 18, is the day to tour the Biocluster sites at VDNKh. At the exhibition “12 Signs of Living Organisms” in the pavilion “Geology” you can learn how everything that exists on the planet is interconnected – modern biologists and artists will “tell” visitors about this. And in the pavilion “Floriculture and Horticulture” there is an exhibition “Formology. Third Nature”, dedicated to the interaction between natural and artificial, organic and digital.
In the Museum of Biology building on the street. Malaya Gruzinskaya in November opened the exhibition “The Nature of Fabric”, created jointly with the Russian Association of Botanical Illustration Lovers. It talks about the plants and animals used to produce fabric. Natural science exhibits (fibre herbarium, silkworm cocoons and stuffed animals) accompany works by contemporary artists.
On Friday you can walk to the Izmailovo estate and visit the exhibition “Open storage. Kitchens and tiles” and the chamber exhibition “Ceramics. New arrivals”. In addition to countless ceramic products of the 17th century, the golden age of Russian tile art, you will be able to see unique ceramic icons from the collection of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve – figures of four missionaries from the Danilov Monastery Church and figures of Matthew the Evangelist from St. Stephen's Church behind the Yauza.
Darwin State Museum awaits visitors on Sunday, December 21. Visitors to the main exhibition will learn about the history of evolution, the diversity of life on Earth, variability and heredity, natural selection and the struggle for survival in nature. The museum is one of the most famous cultural sites in Moscow.
