Ministry for Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
The State Russian Museum
THE PROGRAMME OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM
AND NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF ART
(2002-12)
St Petersburg
2005

Contents
Part I
Information and Analytical Reference on the Art Museums of Russia
Part II
Aims of the Programme
Part III
The Main Directions of the Programme
Exhibitions
Information and educational center «The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch»
Department of the Art Museums of Russia Internet Portal
Museum School
Relevant Art in Regions of Russia
Museums of Russian Towns in the Russian Museum
Russian Museum for Children of Russia
Siberian Growth
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Part I
Information and Analytical Reference on the Art Museums of Russia
There are more than 1800 museums in the Russian Federation comprising about 55 000 000 exhibits in their collections. Over 250 museums are art collections of painting, graphic art, sculpture, folk art, decorative, applied and theatrical art as well as modern art of the 20 th – early 21 st centuries and photography.
Museums status.
Museums include federal subordination establishments such as state and national (republic) museums and picture galleries, large museum associations, historical, architectural and art museum preserves (Vologda, Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, Severobaikalsk); museums of provincial and regional subbordination (AltaiTerritory, Primorie) (about 302). A relatively small group of municipal museums have been considerably enlarged within the last decade due to transfer of a certain part of regional collections under municipal jurisdiction (i.e. Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after Surikov).
Many museums have their own branches. There are museum and exhibition centers and memorial museum apartments of famous artists in different areas. The total number of exhibits in art museums is about 10 000 000. Moreover each historical and local lore museum store exhibits of high artistic value.
Structure and number of exhibits. At the end of the 19 th
century universal collections formed in many art museums and picture galleries in Russia due to the efforts of patrons, historians, artists, statesmen and public figures. After numerous reforms of the 20 th
century, these museums still retain the main collections. Today there are about 80 museums with extensive collections of 5 000 – 50 000 items including national and foreign art (Ancient Egypt, the Ancient World, East and West European and
American countries).
There are more than 100 000 units of keeping in collections of the greatest museums of Moscow and St. Petersburg, suburbs and the Golden Ring museum preserves.
Study of the collections.
Almost all museums with a long 20 th century history of development carried out investigations and studies of their collections. They published the results of their research in numerous catalogues, guidebooks, albums and academic miscellanies. The Samara, Kazan, Perm,
Yaroslavl museums have the most extensively studied collections. In the 1970 – 80-s a large amount of academic catalogues of was published by regional and republic museums. But the majority of editions
(sometimes dedicated to a particular section of the collection) had no illustrative material. During the last decade the interest in certain periods of Russian Art history (Old Russian, avant-garde, etc.) increased and vast foreign art exhibitions were held. The result was numerous publications and electronic versions on Russian collections, provided with good illustrative material.
The State Russian Museum as a methodic center. In 1974 the Ministry of Culture appointed the State Russian Museum as the methodic center so that it could train qualified specialists in the field of
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keeping, studying and popularization of artistic collections. For this purpose the Department of Art
Museums of Russia was created in the structure of the State Russian Museum. During thirty years the museum has been functioning as a consultation center and organizer of inter-museum actions for regional art museums. One of the most important tasks is the raising of the museum specialists’ professional level and art museums collections popularization. Annually over than 300 employees from museums of all regions of the country contribute to academic and practical seminars on the Museum School programme.
The Round Table for the directors of art museums has been held annually. Such publications as From the history of Forming of the Collections of Art , Art Museums of Russia , etc. have been published. Moreover, scientific information on art collections of museums of the Russian Federation is placed on the web-site of the State Russian Museum.
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Part II
Aims of the programme include:
1.
Assistance in creation of a single cultural and information network covering the whole country; overcoming the breakdown in relations between the museums of Moscow and St Petersburg and the towns and provinces and dispelling myths confining Russian art life and the national artistic process to two capitals – Moscow and St Petersburg.
2.
Recreation and consolidation of the system of inter-regional and intra-regional academic, creative and professional links between national museums.
3.
Striking a new system of partnership between the Russian Museum and national museums of art in new social and economic climate.
4.
Maximum increase of effectiveness of modern means of communication, electronic media and advanced technologies to expand the application of the museum programmes – academic and educational; dissemination of the knowledge on the history of Russian culture and art among all sections of the population.
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Part III
The Main Directions of the Programme
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Exhibitions
Decennial programme (2002-12) of exhibitions from the collection of the Russian Museum to show in national museums of art.
Two directions of this programme:
Original exhibition projects for Russian regions
Replication of the main exhibitions, held in the Russian Museum in 1980-1990s, in regions
Variants of original exhibition projects for Russian regions
First variant: Three Centuries of Russian Art
100-150 works of the 18 th
, 19 th
and 20 th
centuries including painting, sculpture, graphic art and applied art.
Each century can be presented by typical samples showing vivid pages of the history of Russian art in its main styles, genres, types and creative individualities.
Second variant: Thousand Years of Russian Art
Such exhibition can show the history of Russian art by the example of 100-150 works from 11 th
century to the early 21 st
century, based on the idea of influence of national roots (icon and folk art) on artists of various generations, styles and tendencies.
Third variant: Images of Russia
This exhibition can comprise landscapes, views of various Russian towns, genre scenes, portraits and images of representatives of different classes and nationalities, living in Russia. The exhibition presents
100-150 works of art including painting, graphic art, decorative and applied art, news photography and newsreel.
The exhibition is supplemented with an illustrated album (circa 300 pages) including articles, biographies of artists and annotations for each work. If the publication is sponsored, it can be granted or sold at a minimum price (below cost price) thus supporting museums financially. The exhibition can be held in several towns (presumably in 4-6 towns) during 9-12 months. Its budget depends on first of all location and route.
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Cycle of exhibitions replicating the main themes of the exhibition programme, realised by the Russian
Museum in 1980-90s
We Worship Thy Immaculate Image. The Image of the Mother of God in Works from the
Collection of the Russian Museum
Russian Monasteries. Art and Traditions
Jesus Christ in Christian Art and Culture (14 th – 20 th Centuries)
Romanticism in Russia
Le Symbolisme Russe
Russian Art of the 1860s
Russian Futurism and David Burliuk, “Father of Russian Futurism”
Impressionism in Russia
Red in Russian Art
Play and Passion in Russian Fine Art
Agitation for Happiness. Soviet Art of the Stalinist Period
Abstraction in Russia: XX Century. In Two Volumes
Portraiture in Russia: XX Century (Three Centuries of Russian Art)
The Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum
Collection of Ginkhuk (State Institute of Artistic Culture) in the Russian Museum.
The exhibitions can be organised in 20-40 Russian towns in 2003-12.
This is a list of towns where the exhibitions may be held:
North-Western region: Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Pskov and
Veliky Novgorod
Central Russia: Ivanovo, Ryazan, Tula, Tver, Kursk, Bryansk and Yaroslavl
Volga region: Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Saransk, Izhevsk, Ulyanovsk and Cheboksary
Southern Russia: Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Krasnodar and Taganrog
Ural: Ekaterinburg, Perm, Ufa and Chelyabinsk
Siberia: Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Surgut and
Nizhnevartovsk
Far East: Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk and Yakutsk
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The list of cities is based on the following terms:
Interest in holding such exhibitions (experience of a museum in organisation of large-scale actions)
Necessary conditions of storage and display of exhibits
Intellectual potential of the audience and its readiness to percept an exhibition (historical background, traditional and cultural milieu and significant collection of works in a museum)
Eagerness of regional administration and commercial organisations to collaborate with a museum
Provision of maximum possible geographic coverage of various regions contributing to exhibition project
Interest of commercial banks in financing municipal exhibition.
The exhibitions should be adapted to conditions and opportunities of a museum. Each exhibition should be supplemented with actions conjointly prepared with the Russian Museum and beneficial for a museum, hosting the exhibition:
Creation of the Society of Friends in a museum (If a museum has got such a society or fund it should organise a ceremonial reception, enlarge membership of the society and scope of its activity and draw attention and funds)
Press conferences and advertising
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“Memorable” opening of an exhibition. Participation of a governor of a region, mayor of a city, representatives of business circles and cultural elite, guest from St Petersburg and
Moscow at the opening of the exhibition
Public lecture for students the day before opening or on the opening day of the exhibition
(management of the Russian Museum, leading curators of the museum and prominent cultural workers of St Petersburg)
Methodical and thematic lectures at the exhibition for museum staff, city galleries of art and visitors. Lectured by the staff of the Russian Museum
Cycle of lectures, devoted to the exhibition i.e. - three days three lectures. Lectured by the staff of the Russian Museum
Presentation of the publications of the Russian Museum and a museum hosting the exhibition (catalogues, albums, CD ROMs, video and methodical material)
Organisation of a concert (actors from St Petersburg). Demonstration of classical feature films based on the works of St Petersburg writers or films, directed by St Petersburg directors or documentary films about St Petersburg writers and representatives of culture and art
Creation of information, educational and entertaining centres or Internet classes, fitted with modern equipment and software, possibly with contribution from local entrepreneurs.
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The centres use educational and entertaining programmes of the Russian Museum on history of Russian art, museum collections and jointly prepared programmes on collections of provincial towns
Methodical provision of travelling exhibitions of the Russian Museum in Russian regions
2002-12 (methodical recommendations, seminars and master-classes)
Organisation and holding of exhibitions from the Fund of Children’s Creativity parallel to the exhibitions of the Russian Museum:
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The Image of the Mother of God in Works from the Collection of the Russian Museum and
Jesus Christ in Christian Art and Culture (14 th – 20 th
Centuries) – Journey in to the World of the Bible
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Red in Russian Art – Colours in the Drawings of Children
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Portraiture in Russia: XX Century (Three Centuries of Russian Art) – Portraiture in the
Art of Children .
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2. Information and educational center
«The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch»
«The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» is an information and educational center based on scientific, educational and methodical investigations of the leading museum experts. The priority given to modern digital technologies guarantees the visitors of the information and educational center high quality of multimedia scientific and educational computer programmes.
The aims of the project:
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 effective familiarization of the public with the treasures of national culture broadening and deepening of knowledge on the history of Russian art, collections and activities of the Russian Museum by means of a free access to electronic, digital and printed materials
«The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center consists of:
the academic and information zone which is the essential constituent of the Center. It presents publications of the Russian Museum, multi-media programmes on CD ROMs and
DVDs, video films featuring the museum collection and history of Russian art;
the educational zone where the leading curators of the museum deliver their lectures for different categories of the museum visitors and hold classes for children based on methods devised by the Russian Center for museum pedagogics and children’s creativity. Free access to the Russian Museum website and other internet resources on fine art is provided;
the multi-media cinema introduces its visitors to the programmes developed with the help of the latest breakthroughs in information and virtual technologies and 3-D computer modeling.
The multi-media cinema
 enables to take virtual tours of the four palaces of the Russian museum complex to see their unique interiors and to get acquainted with the exposition of the museums
 demonstrates the process of historical reconstruction of the museum interiors
 presents an opportunity to visit a virtual exposition existing in virtual reality only
 offers virtual tours of paintings – passing from one picture into another, including specially designed 3D space based on the subjects of both pictures. Virtual tour of a painting allows one to become a direct “participant of the events” depicted in the pictures.
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Organization:
«The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center «The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center «The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center «The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center are created on the basis of agreements on collaboration in the sphere of educational activities with the use of information technologies signed between the Russian Museum and the representatives of local administration, cultural and educational establishments and other institutions interested in the project.
The centers are created on the premises where the location, size, condition and fitting meet the necessary requirements and purposes.
«The Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» information and educational center is accessible to the widest auditorium and offers the opportunity to get acquainted not only with the State Russian Museum collections but with the history of Russian culture on the whole. The center is staffed with high professionals in the sphere of art, modern technologies, museum pedagogics and children’s creativity.
The opening of the virtual branches of the Russian Museum in the towns of Russia is regarded as a new stage of integration into a single national cultural information space contributing to an easy access to the cultural heritage of St Petersburg for the citizens of different regions of the country.
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3.
Department of the Art Museums of Russia Internet Portal
The main tasks of the project:
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Professional presentation of art collections in museums of Russia
– Collaboration between the union of art museums of Russia and other art museums in the Internet
– Creation of space for functional multifaceted collaboration
The official website of the Russian Museum provides the following information:
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Art Museums of Russia information guide
– Annual schedule of seminars and conferences for curators
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Methodical materials based on results of probation periods
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System of registration for contributors to the seminars and conferences.
The Russian Pinakotheke demo version of the database for the network.
The further expansion and development of research will be carried out in the following directions:
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Working up and placing in the Internet of specialized training programmes for all groups of museum’s staff in accordance with tasks of the
Museum School as a structured training system
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Information on regional museum actions and encouragement of new joint inter museum projects.
The main parts of the portal:
Schedule of current and future seminars and conferences in the Russian Museum:
The section introduces regional museums with programmes of seminars and conferences of the Russian
Museum, records participants of actions, distributes necessary materials, etc.
Art collections in museums of Russia
Information guide on art collections in museums of Russia introduces to the main peculiarities of art museums of Russia as well as enables to communicate with the museum itself (by mail, web-site, etc).
Russian Pinakotheke
The database of images from the collections of museums in the form of an abridged catalogue raisonné.
The Russian Pinakotheke is created on the basis of an agreement with museums and guarantee of loyalty of author’s rights (on the grounds of published material).
All the information is taken from polygraphic or electronic sources without any review, amendments or comments, provided only with references to the original.
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Database of images enables to disseminate the information on museum funds, to create a necessary initial base for scientific and other aspects of users’ research. There is also a slide-show Studio for a user’s own video line creation and its usage in the future work.
As for the realization of the Russian Pinakotheke project, the Multimedia Presentations Constructor
(COMP) has been created. COMP enables to create multimedia materials for education purposes and presentations. They are based on such digital resources as reproductions, texts, audio and video types, children’s drawings, etc. Using COMP programme museum staff may create programmes for informational kiosks, accompanying programmes exhibitions, advertising presentations, educational materials, etc. As the information and methodical base the standard exposition structure has been created on the example of the Russian Museum. It presents well-known figures of Russian Art and about 400 artworks from the collection of the Russian Museum are presented here.
The following projects are being developed:
Vocabulary of artists, artistic terms and subjects of works
Internet school of museum
New museum (inter-museum) projects
Consulting center
Helpful Internet resources
Art news of Russian museums
Academic publications of Russian museums
Book store
Practical trainings in the Internet class of the Marble palace have been held for all the contributors of the
State Russian Museum seminars. After the repair works such trainings on the Fundamentals of Work with
Internet Information will be held in the Guardhouses of the St Michael’s Castle.
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4. Museum School
The main aim of the project:
Annual cycle of training seminars for the curators of art museums.
The State Russian Museum develops training educational programmes in collaboration with the leading national museums, federal centers for conservation and other scientific organizations involved in museum business and welcomes foreign experts.
All programs of these academic-practical seminars are interrelated; many of them have been implemented throughout a number of years. The contributors to the seminars are the curators of the art museums of Russia.
The main topics of the training seminars:
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Studying, propaganda and assembling of collections
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Monitoring, storing and safety of museum exhibits
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Restoring and conserving of museum items
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Conversion of the buildings for museum purposes, museum equipment
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Attraction of new visitors to the museum, implementation of address programs
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Educational functions of the museum
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Practical school for young curators
- Management, Public Relations, search of non-budget resources of financing (for directors)
– Modern computer technologies
– Development of intermuseum exhibition projects
Organization of the process of preparation and retraining of specialists in the sphere of museum business based on:
– Practical and training seminars in the subsections of the State Russian Museum based on the academic potential of the Russian Museum, modern educational methods and computer technologies
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Internet seminars
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Academic-practical and methodical assistance in realization of intermuseum projects
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Exhibitions within the walls of the Russian Museum
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Exhibitions from the collections of the Russian Museum in regional museums
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Reviewing and publishing of intermuseum miscellanies.
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Calendar of the annual seminars:
January-February
Young Curator School
March
Museum Collection. Studying. Exhibiting. Collecting
April
Preservation of the Collections of the Russian Museum
May-June
Round Table for Directors of national art museums
September
Seminar for a group of regional museums
October
Museum Collection. Studying. Exhibiting. Collecting
November
Educational Activity
December
Modern Electronic Technologies
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5. Relevant art in regions of Russia
Having a considerable and well-studied collection of Contemporary Art and communicating with modern trends artists, the State Russian Museum plans to create the “Relevant” Art in Regions of Russia project for the North-West. The results of the project may cover all Russian regions in future.
Dates of the project: 2006 – 08
Some 300 – 500 exhibits may comprise the exposition.
The special role of the State Russian Museum is predetermined by the fact of its collecting and exhibiting Contemporary Art and relevant art as its constituent . Such a role became apparent in the beginning of the 20 th
century. The fact of including the exhibits, reflecting new trends in art into its permanent collection testifies to public recognition of an unknown material and making exhibits part of the museum collection. Today the majority of art museums in Russian regions have collections of contemporary “relevant” art. When studying and assembling such museum collections, general problems of insufficient studying of the material in regional museums and the absence of the necessary information exchange between regional, St Petersburg and Moscow museums arise.
“Relevant” is the art at the peak of its time. It introduces the new picture of the world on the whole. Actual art joins the international art context and correlates with its main stream, called mainstream . Using different media and contents development, actual art deals with new unconventional types and genres such as assamblage, object, installation, video-art, photography, etc. Chronologically it’s the art of the “current moment” (the 1980 – 90-s) and geographically it is created by the representatives of Moscow and St Petersburg as well as by the largest cities of the world (Paris, Berlin,
Cologne, New-York, etc.).
The North-Western region of Russia is chosen as the first step of the realization of the project.
The project envisages:
Promotion of collaboration between St Petersburg and North-Western region in the sphere of art life.
The establishment of the state Russian Museum as the methodical and academic center catering for replenishing of the North-Western region museums’ collections with contemporary art works.
Revealing of social, therapeutic and other aspects of contemporary art.
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Cultural exchange with “historical neighbours” of the region such as North European and Baltic countries.
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The basic components of the project:
A number of the Russian Museum exhibitions in museums of the North-West of Russia.
Exhibitions of artists from St Petersburg in North-Western city galleries.
North-Western museums exhibitions in St Petersburg.
Cycles of lectures on topical contemporary art problems on the basis of art and educational regional institutions (art schools, universities or museums).
Master classes for different categories of audience (students, artists, teachers, etc.)
Art therapeutic programme demonstration
Recommendations on formation of a museum collection.
Acquisition of books on contemporary art for libraries.
Edition of series of booklets on the artists of the North-West.
CD-ROMs and information about artists, actions, galleries of modern art, etc. in the Internet
Organization and holding of the final stage of Contemporary Art Festival of the North-West of Russia in the State Russian Museum.
Potential contributes to the project:
Arkhangelsk
Vologda
Art Culture of the Russian North
Vologda Picture Gallery
state museum association
Kaliningrad
Murmansk
Vologda State History and Architecture Art Museum Preserve
Kaliningrad State Art Gallery
Kaliningrad History and Art Museum
Murmansk Art Museum
Novgorod
Petrozavodsk
Pskov
Syktyvkar
Novgorod Museum Preserve
Fine Arts Museum of Karelia
Pskov History, Architecture and Art Museum Preserve
Komi Republic National Gallery
Partnership conditions:
desire and possibilities for contemporary art display
Interested audience
Possibilities for holding ceremonial openings of exhibition and their promotion.
Encouraging of interested partners and sponsors in regions
Other possible contributors:
Galleries
Art educational institutions
Regional culture and public organizations
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6. Museums of Russian Towns in the Russian Museum
This project includes organisation and holding of the exhibition of paintings of the 18 th
-20 th
centuries from the collections of the museums of Central and North-Western regions of Russia in the State Russian
Museum, popularisation and wide covering of cultural, educational and public work in the townscontributors.
Dates of the exhibition in the State Russian Museum: 2006
Organisation of such an exhibition in the Russian Museum enables to show little known collections from provincial museums for the first time. It gives the staff of these museums an opportunity to learn the experience of the leading experts of the Russian Museum in the process of collaboration and at seminars, accompanying the exhibition. This project is unique because the museums contributing to the project are co-authors of the conception and active contributors responsible for preparation and holding of the exhibition.
This project is aimed at drawing attention of cultural and business circles to the problem of preserving and promotion of cultural heritage of Russian regions, consolidation of prestige of the cities contributing to the project and attracting investments into these cities and conformation of the uniting role of St
Petersburg in the sphere of culture, science, economics and business.
Museums of the Central and North-Western regions contribute to the project.
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7. Russian museum for children of Russia
The programme implies museum-pedagogical and social and leisure activities all over Russian regions according to the following directions:
Education:
Hello, Museum! complex museum and pedagogical programme realized in 20 regions: Kirishi,
Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad region), Arkhangelsk, Kirov, Krasnodar, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Moscow,
Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan, Stavropol, Tver, Tula,
Chelyabinsk, South-Sakhalinsk. The further programme development is determined by the necessity of:
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The supply of museums and educational institutions with a methodic complex of training courses slide sets, educational and methodical manuals, video and multimedia programmes
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Museum and pedagogical specialists training.
Science and methodology:
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The adaptation of the State Russian Museum programmes for the social and cultural regional specificity and the potential of concrete museums and educational institutions.
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Regional museum-pedagogical developments review. Museum curators advising on academic-methodical issues of pedagogical work.
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Methodic support of museum-pedagogical activity of information-educational Russian
Museum: Virtual Branch centers.
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Organization and realization of conferences and science-practical seminars on the following themes:
Ecological Role of Fine Arts in the Condition of Intensive Visual Flow
International conference (the State Russian Museum, 2005)
Art Therapy in Education, Psychological Consultation and Culture ( Russian North
Art Culture Museum Association. Arkhangelsk, 2005)
Social and leisure Activities in an Art Museum (the State Russian Museum, 2007)
Computer Technologies in Educational Activity of an Art Museum (the State
Russian Museum, 2008)
Organization and realization of:
 Annual various nomination best work contest of art lovers’ club students of art museums on various nominations
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
Museum-Art-Culture All-Russian competition and festival of senior pupils (the State Russian Museum
– 2007, 2009, 2011)
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Museum-Art-Culture All-Russian festival of senior pupils (the State Russian Museum – 2007, 2009,
2011)
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Museum – Modern Art – School: St Petersburg – Omsk Siberian intermuseum project (2002 – 2005)
Exhibition:
Organization and realization of the St Petersburg in the Art of Children exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia
(USA). (from the Children’s Creativity Fund – Tula, Tver, Ryazan, Rostov-on-Don, Arkhangelsk, etc.)
Leisure:
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The realization of the Step Forward art therapeutic programme.
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The creation of the School of Volunteers for art therapeutic programmes in a museum.
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The organization of art studios in orphanages.
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Creative contests and festivals for inmates of orphanages and disabled children (on the base of the
State Russian Museum and regional museums)
International projects:
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Ecological Role of Fine Arts in the Condition of Intensive Visual Flow . 2003 – 2005
Participants: The State Russian Museum, leading regional museums of Russia, Educational Academy of
Russian Federation, The Paul Getty Foundation (USA). The task of the project is comparative analysis of specific of perception of fine art and the surrounding world in intercultural dialogue; the role of museum in personal development in the condition of the intensive visual flow.
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Meeting in Creative Oeuvre Russian-Finnish project. 2003 – 2007
Contributors: The State Russian Museum, The Center for Working with Children and Young People of
Häinkaa (Finland)
Professional training of specialists on museum pedagogics. Raising the level of education and academic specialists:
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In the State Russian Museum within the framework of training of specialists of The Russian Museum:
Virtual Branch Educational Centers
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In the State Russian Museum within the framework of training seminars and museum-pedagogical courses of the Hello, Museum!
programme
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In the State Russian Museum and the Alexander Herzen Pedagogical University at the Fine Arts and
Museum Pedagogic Department (the Museum Pedagogic profile, Artistic Education )
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8. Siberian growth
16 Siberian and the Far Eastern museums and galleries as well as the Union of Artists departments are to contribute to the Siberian growth project (2003 – 04). It includes a large-scale exhibition reflecting the main tendencies of development and peculiarities of fine art of these regions in the 20 th
– early 21 st centuries as well as the academic conference summing up the research work of the leading museum specialists.
Tasks of the project:
The project develops the tradition of studying of Siberian and the Far Eastern native peoples’ folk art. It was launched in the Russian Museum in the 1920-s.
The main stages of realization of the project:
2004 – exhibitions in 10 Siberian cities: Irkutsk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, Omsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk,
Novokusnetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul.
2005 – inter-museum exhibitions in 4 Siberian cities: Irkutsk (Irkutsk, Chita, Ulan-Ude), Omsk (Omsk,
Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaisk), Kemerovo (Kemerovo, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk), Krasnoyarsk
(Krasnoyarsk, Zelenogorsk, Abakan) Inter-museum Far Eastern exhibition in Khabarovsk (Khabarovsk,
Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Vladivostok, Yakutsk).
Art of Yakutia exhibition in St Petersburg.
2006 – the Siberian Growth exhibition from the Siberian region, St Petersburg.
Fine Arts and Arts and Crafts of the Far East: Beginnings, Development, Projects the Far Eastern region exhibition, St Petersburg.
The list of museums contributing to the project:
The Far East
1.
The Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk
2.
The Fine Arts Museum, Komsomolsk-on-Amur
3.
The Picture Gallery in Primorsk, Vladivostok
4.
Arka Modern Art Gallery, Vladivostok
5.
National Art Museum of Sokha Republic (Yakutia), Yakutsk.
Siberia
1.
Byryatsk Republican Art Museum named after Sampilov, Ulan-Ude
2.
Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after Sukachev, Irkutsk
3.
Chita Regional Art Museum, Chita
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4.
National Museum of the Altai Republic named after Anokhin, Gorno-Altaisk
5.
The State Art Museum of the Altai Territory, Barnaul
6.
Novosibirsk Picture Gallery, Novosibirsk
7.
Omsk Regional Fine Arts Museum named after M. Vrubel, Omsk
8.
Kemerovo Fine Arts Museum, Kemerovo
9.
Novokuznetsk Art Museum, Novokuznetsk
10.
The Siberian Art Gallery, Novokuznetsk
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Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk
12.
Khakass Republician Museum of Regional, Abakan
13.
Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after Surikov, Krasnoyarsk
14.
Municipal Museum and Exhibition Center, Zelenogorsk.
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