On the eve of the New Year holidays, the Moscow Department of Culture initiated the idea of free visits to the capital's museums during the January holidays. The initiative is to ensure that residents and guests of the capital have the opportunity to get acquainted with museum exhibits without paying admission ticket. Currently, the idea has been approved by more than 86 Moscow institutions, including the Tretyakov Gallery and the State historical Museum. This news met with rave reviews from residents and guests of Moscow.
From now on, on the eve of the New Year, the official website of the Department of Culture will publish a complete list of museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which will not charge admission fees during the winter holidays.
Very soon the people of Russia will celebrate the New Year 2019! Fortunately, this sparkling holiday is not limited to one day off. After a noisy feast with family and friends, you want to relax a little and think about how to spend the rest of your free days. It's important to plan well in advance. entertainment program for the period of the January holidays, so as not to miss the most interesting events in the city. Of course, there are hundreds of places in Moscow worth visiting: the New Year tree on Red Square, fairs, clubs, skating rinks and restaurants. The choice is huge.
However, New Year It is a holiday not only for the body, but also for the soul. And the best gift for the soul is full immersion into an atmosphere of art, beauty and creativity. It is this atmosphere that reigns in the museums of history and art, which will gladly open their doors to visitors during the January holidays.
In the spacious exhibition halls, everyone will be able to touch the history of the fatherland and feel the spirit of bygone times, enjoy the creations of the great masters of sculpture and painting, and also learn about how famous works literature and poetry.
List of popular museums
Those wishing to visit all the museums of Moscow during the New Year holidays simply do not have enough time and energy. Therefore, we offer you a list of museums that are especially popular with visitors.
1. Museum of Archeology. It is enough to visit this museum once, so that the impressions of what you see remain in your memory forever. In addition to unique exhibits of Moscow life of the 15th-17th centuries, each guest will be able to try on the clothes of Moscow residents of this period.
2. Armouries. This institution is one of the first museums in Russia. The attention of visitors is presented to the imperial weapons relics, the decoration of the royal cavalry, the famous Monomakh's hat, as well as many famous items that are an integral part of the richest Russian history.
3. Mosfilm Museum. Mosfilm occupies a leading position in the list of the most visited museums in the capital. IN exposition halls This institution will be interesting to spend time for both children and adults. As exhibits, the costumes in which they were filmed are exhibited here. legendary actors Soviet cinema, as well as cars, scenery and many other things recognizable by anyone who has ever watched films by such directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Gaidai, Sergei Bondarchuk, Georgy Danelia, Andrei Tarkovsky.
4. Tretyakov Gallery . by the most famous museum painting is the Tretyakov Gallery. Almost every inhabitant of Russia has heard about this museum, founded in 1986. And this is not surprising, because the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery contain the world's largest collection of Russian visual arts. Being here, you can enjoy the paintings of great Russian artists of different times. This is truly a grandiose spectacle that will leave an indelible mark on your soul.
Lesser-known museums
In addition to the above, the following museums will open their doors to visitors:
- manor Lefortovo;
- Moscow Defense Museum;
- Space Museum;
- museum contemporary art;
- the Darwin Museum;
- literary museum;
- museum "Kolomenskoye";
- Museum-reserve "Tsaritsyno"
A complete list of museums that you can visit for free in new year holidays 2019, presented on the official website of the Moscow Department of Culture. St. Petersburg also joined this initiative. Museums to be announced soon northern capital, which can be visited by everyone during the New Year and Christmas holidays.
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It is interesting to know that there are many museums in Moscow that children should definitely visit. For example, very young (2-5 years old) will be interested in such as: the House of Fairy Tales "Once Upon a Time", the Museum of Unique Dolls, the Museum "Buratino-Pinocchio".
Older children will get maximum pleasure in Olga Okudzhava's Doll House, the Zabavushka Folk Toy Museum, and the Animation Museum. These places are considered interactive and educational.
New Year's Eve has just begun. Behind New year's night and difficult for many on January 1, which means it's time to think about how to spend time interestingly and profitably. In St. Petersburg, the most popular place where crowds of tourists and local residents, there will be a museum "Hermitage".
At the beginning of 2018, Russians will have a rest for a whole week - government agencies will only go to work on the morning of January 9th. Of course, many people work regardless of the established schedule, because the inhabitants of the country simply cannot do without some services and goods for a long time.
At the same time, even those who are busy at work tend to get out of the house on New Year or Christmas and go to the museum, and even more so, the most important and large-scale museum in Russia, is great idea pastime.
Opening hours of the Hermitage Museum during the New Year holidays
The museum is one of those structures that did not go on a ten-day vacation. It was closed only on January 1st. On the whole work week started on January 2 and will continue until Christmas.
As it became known, the museum will not work additionally on January 7 - on the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
On other days, the museum waits for visitors according to the usual schedule - Monday is a day off, Tuesday and Friday from 10:30 to 21:00, other days from 10:30 to 18:00. It is important to remember that in the city in holidays there will be many who want to visit the Hermitage and you have to be ready to stand in line for an hour or two.
The Hermitage is preparing for the New Year very seriously - the halls are decorated vintage toys, Christmas trees are dressed up magnificently and solemnly. By the way, putting up several Christmas trees in the museum has become good tradition- it originated in the time of the Romanovs, when each of the members royal family devoted a separate Christmas tree within the walls of the building.
At the beginning of the month, a separate hall was opened in the museum, which displays costumes and outfits. different eras and peoples — the exposition will also function on holidays, and its visit will not leave indifferent neither adults nor children.
From December 23 to January 14 inclusive, the museum foyer hosts special program dedicated to the New Year and Christmas - "We draw in the Hermitage" will give unforgettable memories, charge magical festive mood and will prove to be quite a pleasant pastime for people of all ages.
By the way, on the first Thursday of every month, the museum opens its doors to visitors completely free of charge, so the holiday is just around the corner - in 2018, the first free day falls on January 4th.
Hermitage in St. Petersburg - address, how to get there
The Hermitage is located in the very center of St. Petersburg, on Palace Square. The nearest metro station is Admiralteyskaya. When exiting the metro, turn left and walk a few meters to Malaya Morskaya Street. Turn right and walk a few meters to Nevsky Prospekt. You need to go left along Nevsky Prospekt and you will find yourself on Palace Square. The entrance to the Hermitage is located on Palace Square.
You can also walk from the Nevsky Prospekt / Gostiny Dvor stations. From the metro go along Nevsky Prospekt towards the Admiralty to Bolshaya Morskaya Street. At the intersection of Bolshaya Morskaya and Nevsky Prospekt you will see the arch of the General Staff building, through which you will get to Palace Square. Entrance to the museum from Palace Square.
Ticket prices and visiting rules:
- for citizens of Russia and Belarus - 400 rubles;
- for pensioners (citizens of Russia), children and students (any countries) - free of charge;
- for foreign citizens (including CIS countries) - 700 rubles;
- amateur photography - free of charge. Shooting with a tripod, shooting with flash is prohibited;
- free visit- the first Thursday of each month and December 7 (Hermitage Day) for all categories of visitors.
Cultural lovers will be able to spend new year holidays interesting and informative. Many museums will be opened in St. Petersburg. Their mode of operation will be discussed in this article. During these holidays there will be a discount on all tickets to the museums of the northern capital, you just have to not miscalculate over time, otherwise you can get under closed doors.
Museums of St. Petersburg have prepared interesting program for the indigenous people and guests of this beautiful city during these New Year holidays. Many tickets will be sold at a discount. It is only necessary to clarify their working hours in order not to arrive at closing time. The article will tell you more about this.
- Hermitage
- Russian Museum
- Faberge Museum
- Naval Museum
- Zoo museum
- Railway Museum
Hermitage
This ancient museum rightfully considered the king of all temples of culture. It is both a historical and an art museum. Anyone who visits it will bring double benefits for himself - for the soul and knowledge of history.
It is especially pleasant to visit it on New Year's holidays - you can enjoy the beauty, and this is important for raising your spirits.
Important: But it is worth considering that on December 31 this museum is open only until 18:30! On January 1, the Hermitage will not be open! It will open only on January 2 at 10.30. On Thursday, admission to the museum will be absolutely free for everyone! This opportunity is worth taking advantage of. In addition, every day admission is free for children under the age of majority, as well as pensioners and full-time students.
Russian Museum
This art museum will open its doors only on January 3 and will be open daily from 10 am to 6 pm. True, not everyone can enjoy free access to famous museum– Admission is free for students only. But there is also nice moment for people who have long graduated from school and who want to spend time in this fascinating place - residents of St. Petersburg will be given a discount.
Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta
The museum can be visited by everyone from December 31, from 10 am to 10 am. The most unusual and modern exhibits will appear before connoisseurs in all their glory, and the Museum Stage will give a concert to all lovers of the classics - New Year's holiday concert"Strauss Hall" can be visited by everyone until 10 am. The museum will give unforgettable impressions for the New Year, but on the first day of January, Erarta will open its doors only at 14:00. Basically, timetables will remain unchanged.
Faberge Museum
All connoisseurs and those who simply want to get acquainted with the famous collection of the Faberge jeweler can visit the Shuvalov Palace, however, on January 1, the doors of the museum will be closed. The museum schedule will remain exactly the same as on other days - from 10 am to 10 pm.
Important: It must be remembered that the museum closes 15 minutes before the end of the time, so at 21:45 you must leave the walls of the palace.
Naval Museum
One of oldest museums countries will resume its work on January 2, 2018, from 11 o'clock in the afternoon. The most famous exhibits of the naval theme, paintings by Aivazovsky and other famous masters, accurate models famous ships, many other interesting things can be seen, also, on any day except Christmas, which will be January 7th. During the winter holidays, lovers of this type of art can purchase a subscription that allows you to visit all four branches of the Naval Museum, for example, the museum located on the famous cruiser Aurora.
Zoo museum
This Magic world a wide variety of animals can be visited on any day except December 31 and January 1. Three floors of amazing exhibits, which can only be seen in this museum, will open their doors from 1:00 to 18:00. But you need to know in advance that there are rules in this building, the violation of which can be fraught with a visit to the police and a fine. These rules are easily explained by the existence of such unusual exhibits. Food cannot be brought into the museum, children must come only accompanied by adults, and it is strictly forbidden to leave them unattended.
Railway Museum
This museum opened relatively recently, but has already managed to get a special love among art connoisseurs. The main exhibits are, of course, railways, steam locomotives, the history of their construction. But not only the lighting of engineering is presented in the museum, guests can enjoy the atmosphere of the Nikolaev era, paintings and other things of the 19th century. Its area occupies 4 football fields- very big square of such a museum is explained by its contents.
Important: This is an extraordinary gathering. interesting exhibits cannot be visited on December 31, January 1 and 2, as well as on the 8 and 9, as the museum will close its doors. On other days, you can visit a unique place from 10 am to 6 pm. The museum has rules - children under 3 years old are not allowed to visit, and minors must be accompanied by adult relatives.
During the New Year holidays, the Hermitage was visited by 95,559 people, which is almost 12,000 people a day.
During the same period in 2015, the Hermitage was visited by 80,826 people, an average of about 9,000 people a day. At the same time, on the traditional free day - the first Thursday of the month - 16,593 people visited the Hermitage! For comparison, on the same day last year, 8,826 people came to the museum. The most visited were January 5, 6 and 7 - 15,079.14,601 and 16,593 people, respectively. During the holidays, in addition to the main expositions, the Hermitage opened 17 temporary exhibitions.
extended days
During the New Year holidays, the Hermitage was open until 21.00 for three days in a row. In addition to Wednesday and Friday, 6 and 8 January, the days when the Hermitage can always be visited in the evening hours, the museum made a gift to St. Petersburg residents and guests of the city – on Christmas Day, 7 January, the museum was also open until 21.00. It was during these days that the Hermitage was visited by 42,753 people, which is approximately 45% of all visitors for all the New Year holidays.
free day
In 2016, the traditional free day - the first Thursday of the month - coincided with Christmas. On this day, the museum extended its work until 21:00, which was reported more than once on the museum’s website and in in social networks. Unfortunately, in the morning a huge queue had accumulated at the entrance to the Hermitage, but already after 18 pm the Main museum complex I could get in without a queue.
On that day, 16,593 people visited the Hermitage, Main Headquarters visited by 5,740 people. The main headquarters is also part of the Hermitage, and now it houses famous collections impressionists and post-impressionists, Faberge memory rooms, modern art halls, and much more. We draw your attention to the fact that usually the queue at the General Staff building is much smaller on any day (including the free one). During the holidays, 24,671 people got acquainted with the expositions at the General Staff Building - this is only 26% of total number visitors.
Problem with queues
The Hermitage apologizes to all those who had to stand on a frosty day on January 7 in line at the Main Museum Complex of the Hermitage. During the winter holidays, we faced force majeure circumstances - very coldy, because of which the ticket terminals did not work, and a large number of people who wanted to get to the Hermitage on January 7th. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that, in accordance with security requirements, 6,115 visitors can be in the Hermitage at a time, so we could not let all those freezing on the street inside the museum - after all, this is a matter of safety for the visitors themselves, and museum exhibits. We also cannot let visitors into the museum without a ticket, even if it is free - this is a mandatory document, necessary, among other things, for the Hermitage to report to the Ministry of Culture. In addition, do not forget that the Main Museum Complex is imperial palace, which is not designed to receive such a large number people at the same time, and queues accumulate at the entrance to museums of all countries - including cold ones. We make every effort to ensure that our visitors feel comfortable when visiting the museum.
January 7 and 8 in the Great Courtyard Winter Palace for the visitors standing in line, free hot tea was offered (a story about this on the St. Petersburg TV channel). In addition, during the New Year holidays, the partners of the Our Peter Museum opened additional cafes in the General Staff Building and the Rastrelli Gallery (along with a constantly working Internet cafe).
It was decided to let children into the museum so that they would not stand and wait in the cold, and to collect them on the Embassy Stairs until the parents bought tickets for themselves.
Once again, we draw your attention to the fact that in order not to stand in line at the Main Museum Complex, you can first visit the General Headquarters or the Winter Palace of Peter I. We also recommend, if possible, not to visit the Hermitage on a free day for those categories of visitors for whom admission to the museum is free always - to pensioners of the Russian Federation, children of preschool and school age, students educational institutions, students (regardless of citizenship)!
Internet tickets
On the website of our partners www.hermitageshop.ru it is possible to buy a ticket online to avoid queues at the museum box office. During the New Year holidays, the Hermitage encountered an unprecedented number of visitors who bought Internet tickets, and we were unable to cope with this situation. The electronic voucher must be exchanged for an entrance ticket to the museum at a special box office, which is this moment only one. A queue began to form at this ticket office, which (due to an oversight of the Hermitage employees) was joined by people standing at the ticket office for regular tickets. Another problem has arisen – online ticket buyers, unfortunately, do not read the information on the voucher. In addition to the rules for exchanging a voucher for a ticket, it contains the addresses and contacts of an organization that sells tickets online. Problems with online tickets are solved by the employees of www.hermitageshop.ru, but almost none of the buyers contacted them. In addition, work is underway to optimize the use of Internet tickets. In the near future, tickets will not need to be changed, the passage through the turnstiles will be carried out using bar codes. The possibility of opening a separate entrance for visitors with electronic tickets is also being considered.
The problem with speculators
The Hermitage has long been faced with speculators and swindlers in the museum. They show special impudence on the days of free visits. Unfortunately, we cannot influence this - it remains on the conscience of these people. To catch such a person by the hand, and even more so to somehow punish him, is very difficult (a story about speculators on the Life78 TV channel). Dear visitors, do not buy tickets with your hands, and even more so places in the queue or cloakroom!
Ads in the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace
In the Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace, visitors are regularly informed by loudspeaker about the approximate waiting time in line. In addition, museum staff constantly offer to visit the General Staff Building (information about the General Staff Building is also posted on banners in the yard). In addition, a warning was periodically broadcast not to buy tickets by hand.
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"Hermitage", opening hours on New Year's holidays, 2018: timetable, how to get there?
New Year holidays state museum The Hermitage did not work on January 1, January 7, 2018 will also be a day off at the museum.
On other days, according to the usual schedule - Monday is a day off, Tuesday and Friday from 10:30 to 21:00, other days from 10:30 to 18:00.
It is important to remember that during the holidays there will be many people in the city wishing to visit the Hermitage, and one must be prepared to stand in line for an hour or two.
Address: Palace Square, d. 2, Hermitage
Directions: St. m. "Admiralteyskaya", "Nevsky prospect", " Gostiny Dvor"; by land transport to the stop. "State Hermitage Museum".
"Hermitage", opening hours on New Year's holidays, 2018: poster of upcoming events
At the beginning of the month, a separate hall was opened in the museum, which presents costumes and outfits from different eras and peoples - the exposition will also function on holidays, and its visit will not leave indifferent adults or children.
From December 23 to January 14 inclusive, a special program dedicated to the New Year and Christmas is held in the museum foyer - "We draw in the Hermitage" will give unforgettable memories, charge you with a magical festive mood and turn out to be quite a pleasant pastime for people of all ages.
