New Year — new museums!
The year 2023 was marked by the opening and restoration of interesting exhibition venues.
Here are some of them:
Museum "Kosmos" near Yaroslavl
The renovated museum is dedicated to the life of Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut in the world. You will learn about the history of achievements on the way of the "Yaroslavl Chaika" and her modern colleagues. The memorial part of the museum is a peasant hut from the 1950s where the heroine spent her childhood, recreated according to descriptions by V.V. Tereshkova and her relatives. The museum allows visitors to trace the evolution of space suits and rocket engines, learn about the country's achievements in space exploration, view the cockpit of the Vostok spacecraft that orbited the Earth, see models of Soviet space equipment, and also observe the successes of Soviet cosmonautics, including the world's first Mars rover and the first landings on Mars and Venus. The exhibition was updated with new exhibits and up-to-date audio and video content. The "Kosmos" museum has a new hall dedicated to Mars, where a real model of a Martian base occupies a central place. Also on display is a unique, the only Mars globe in Russia, which shows the deepest canyons and highest mountains and provides a new level of understanding of the planet's surface. You can also see a real aero-hydroponic installation that could become the key to growing the first edible plants on Mars.
Dynamo Museum in Moscow
The main exhibition is dedicated to the history and development of the Dynamo Society, occupies about 700 square meters and consists of several sections: "Chronology", "Faces of Dynamo", "Speed", "Hall of Fame", "Stadium" and "Become a Dynamo member". Already in the lobby on the first floor a visitor can see a huge multimedia installation that forms a single picture from many videos. It conveys the main idea of the Society: "Dynamo — strength in movement and unity." There are also infographics with key facts and figures about the Society’s history with audio accompaniment, a multimedia corridor "Immersion" which serves as a kind of transition into the world of sports history, represented by a 7-meter video projection where you can see the seconds of maximum concentration of athletes preparing for a start or a new push, and a "Mediatheque" hall to deepen your knowledge and study more detailed information about the museum's history, articles on the geography and architecture of the museum, its role in the country's culture and in the lives of many generations.
Museum of Motherhood and Infancy in Yekaterinburg
In the historic estate "Ilinskoe-Usovo" an exhibition of the first Museum of Motherhood and Infancy in Russia was opened, created by the "Elisavetinsko-Sergiev Enlightenment Society" Foundation. The exhibition covers the period from the 18th century to 1917 and tells the story of maternal and infant care as well as the development of obstetrics in the Russian Empire under the patronage of the Imperial House of Romanov. Special attention is paid to the history of the Imperial estate Ilinskoe-Usovo and its owners. Visitors will learn about the system of health protection for mothers and children not only in pre-revolutionary Russia but also in the Soviet Union. More than 400 exhibits, including items from museums and private collections as well as gifts from village residents, are presented in the Museum of Motherhood and Infancy. Among the rare artifacts are the christening shirt of Genrikh Mikhailovich Pasternak and a letter from Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. Several display cases are dedicated to the history of obstetrics, and posters about healthy childhood are placed on the walls. The building itself is part of the exhibition under the concept of a "Museum of a Historic House." The halls feature object installations, including a veranda, a wet nurse's room, and an early 20th-century study. Three paintings for the museum were created by the artist Vera Ilinichna Glazunova.
In addition to completed projects, the country's cultural development plans include the openings of new museums in 2023. Namely:
Expansion of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin.
The museum's exhibition area, increased by more than two times, will open its doors to visitors at the end of 2023.
Moscow Transport Museum
The museum will become a multifunctional cultural center, an interactive theater immersing visitors in the history of transport and its future, a territory for cross-cultural projects and vivid collaborations, with more than 250 examples of passenger and cargo cars, taxis, buses, trolleybuses, city service vehicles, the legendary "polutorka" and three-ton trucks, bicycle and motorcycle equipment. In 2023 it is planned to present the permanent exhibition in the building of the former cargo vehicle garage by architect Melnikov on Novoryazanskaya Street.
Rzhev Museum of Architectural History
It will become a center for the study of architectural heritage and the creation of prototypes of the city's lost architecture. The exhibition concept is based on three images of Rzhev:
— Rzhev in 1910,
— Rzhev of the 20th century and materials about its development during that period — trade, banking, and so on,
— Rzhev at the turn of the centuries with models of significant architectural objects.
The L.N. Tolstoy Museum-Estate in Khamovniki, Moscow, will open its doors to visitors after a long restoration.
Branch of the Tretyakov Gallery in Vladivostok
It will become a regional representative of collections of Russian, Western and Eastern art, in which major museums — the State Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Museum of the Orient — will act as residents of educational and exhibition programs, as well as the Primorsky Art Gallery and the Museum of the History of the Far East named after V.K. Arseniev, and foreign partners from Northeast Asian countries. Until the opening, scheduled for early July 2023, the Tretyakov branch carries out exhibition and educational programs.
Branch of the Tretyakov Gallery in Samara
The museum is dedicated to the organization of the NarPIT association, which appeared in 1923–1924 and was involved in creating factory-kitchens and theorizing the idea of public catering in the Soviet Union. A separate block is devoted to the phenomenon of factory-kitchens — how they were conceived and what they were like. The Factory-Kitchen Museum is a large-scale project that includes items related to the history of the architect Ekaterina Maksimova and documents on the design of the Kitchen, an archive of oral histories collected from people who worked in the Kitchen, industrial boilers, vegetable slicers, cooking equipment, household items, the atmosphere of a Soviet canteen down to its smells and sounds, and much more. It will open at the end of 2023 in the restored building of the Factory-Kitchen.
