The Day of Historical Heritage in Moscow 2016
17.04.2016 – 18.04.2016
This week end in Moscow promises to be very interesting. On the 17th of April our capital will celebrate the Historical Heritage Day dated to the International Memorial Protection Day. Everyone having a Moscow tour these days will have a great opportunity to visit museums, parks and galleries for free. We’d like to share with you main places of interest and some details of the forthcoming holiday.
17th April
Each visitor of Gorky Park will be able to download a short audio guide “8 minutes around Gorky Park” with the help of special mobile application and have a walk around this place.
Former royal estate Kolomenskoe will meet the guests of the capital with various exhibitions. One of the most interesting of them is called “Tzar Alexis’ Palace. Historical Reconstruction” This exhibition is devoted to the reconstructed wooden monument of the XVII century called by its contemporaries “The 8th wonder of the world'.
Those who like photography will certainly enjoy the excursion of famous Russian photojournalist Jury Abramochkin “Flight through time” at Rabochiy and Kolhoznitsa exhibition hall.
In the framework of “Spring in Russia” festival Pushkin Museum prepared a free concert of classical music performed by famous Moscow brass band. Visitors will listen to the works of well-known composers - Franz Liszt, Yan Frenkel, Mark Minkov, Arno Babajanian, Isaak Dunaevsky and others.
Those who are interested in Russian Cosmonautics, are welcome to the Memorial Museum of Space Exploration. Here you will get acquainted with unique video project “On-orbit year” and talk to Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin.
18th April
From 10 am to 6 pm the guests of Moscow will be able to visit Moscow Kremlin Museums for free, including Assumption Cathedral, The Cathedral of the Archangel Mikhail, Annunciation cathedral, and The Church of the Deposition of the Robe.
Full program of this event you can see . Moscow tour guides hope you will have a really good time!
Moscow Current Events
Moscow in miniature
Would you like to see the central part of the largest city model that will enter the Guinness Book of World Records? You have an excellent chance to do it till the end of 2015 in All-Russia Exhibition Centre VDNKh. We belive that an architecture model of Moscow (Moscow in miniature) performed at a scale of 1:400 is really worth seeing.
Russian Impressionism Museum
Art-buffs are welcome to visit the Russian Impressionism Museum, which opened its doors in Moscow on the 28th of May. The exhibition hall is located on the grounds of the former “Bolshevik” confectionery factory grounds.
Robostation in VDNH
If you are interested in everything connected with robots you should certainly attend one of the most curious interactive museum called Robostation, situated in All-Russia Exhibition Centre VDNH. Here visitors of all ages have a great chance to get acquainted with modern robots, take part in different activities, enjoy technopark, chemistry show and show of dancing robots.
Archive Of Moscow Events:
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Shchukin. Biography of a Collection.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents one of the most prominent collections of European Modernist art, encompassing the most important artistic trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The Shchukin exhibition includes masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other masters.
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Moscow Museums Night 2019
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2019 year in Russia has been declared as the Year of the Theater, therefore many events will be devoted to the history of the theater.
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Ilya Repin exhibition
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Primeval Russia Photo Exhibition
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East: Another Beauty Exhibition
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Moscow is behind us 1941. The military-historical festival
Did you know that Borodino Field was not only the location of the Battle of Borodino during Napoleoinic Wars but also the place of a severe clash between the Soviet and German forces in 1941? Join the festival of military reconstruction where the events of the WW II will come to life.
