March 19, 1898 for the first time for the visitors opened the Museum of Emperor Alexander III - The Russian Museum

March 19, 1898 for the first time for the visitors opened the Museum of Emperor Alexander III - The Russian Museum.

Today, this unique museum complex, which has no analogues in the world. The complex, which joined together the architectural masterpieces, examples of landscape art and a huge collection of Russian art from the Middle Ages to the present day.

In the historical center of St. Petersburg Russian Museum occupies thirteen buildings. Of these, five palaces built by prominent European architects: Michael's, Marble, Stroganov, St. Michael's (Engineers) Castle, the Summer Palace of Peter I. These two adjacent garden - Summer and Michael's. The total area of the Russian Museum, is 30 hectares.

Collection of Russian museum has some 400 exhibits, covering all historical periods and trends in the development of Russian art, its main types and styles, trends and schools with the X on the twenty-first century.

Germany and the United States, France and Italy, Belgium and Spain, China and Japan - almost across the globe Russian Museum shows masterpieces of national art. Annually, it holds around 70 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Two-thirds - in the museum.

Every year, the Russian Museum is issued 30-40 editions. Palace Editions - this is the official publishing house of the Russian Museum, which prints books, albums, catalogs of collections and exhibitions, reports, and collections of scientific works in Russian and foreign languages. Publications acquainted with the exposition, and unique collections of museum collections, scientific, exhibition and education.

Every year, the Russian Museum presents a wide range of videos and video programs, which provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the world's largest collection of Russian art. This tour of the museum, the stories of the funds and restoration workshops, the history of the life and work of famous Russian artists.

Russian Museum is a unique repository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative research institute, one of the largest centers of culture and education, scientific-methodical center of art museums in the Russian Federation, which covers the work of 260 art museums in Russia.

Since 2003, the Russian Museum is working on creating a network of information and educational center «Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch». This program provides an opportunity to take a virtual tour of the four palaces within the complex of the Russian Museum, to see their unique interiors, to get acquainted with the exposition, provides the possibility of establishing a virtual exhibition - not the current reality in the exhibition hall, showing the audience the historical reconstruction of the lost museum interiors, allows to journey into the virtual image - a transition from one picture to another, including a specially designed three-dimensional space based on the subjects of both pictures.

A local network of virtual branches, together the participants of the project «Russian Museum: the Virtual Branch» (museums, universities, schools). The network will enable real-time to see what is happening in the Russian Museum.

Russian Museum is working with children and adolescents in a special program «Hello, Museum!», which is sold in more than 20 regions of the country. Internet project «International Youth Internet book about art» brings together young people from different countries who are interested in Russian art.

Currently, the museum is accessible to persons with disabilities. In 1997, with the support of eminent personalities of science and art of Russia, the United States, Germany and Sweden was set up Endowment Fund for support and development of art therapy programs «In search of harmony». Staff carrying out the Russian Museum: psihokorrektsionnuyu work with children of art therapy in schools, orphanages, hospitals and in the space of the museum.

Since 1997, when the Russian Museum International Society exists «Friends of the Russian Museum». Collective and personal members of the community are active participants in the museum, assisted by the scientific, educational, exhibition and exposition, the museum restoration program.

In 2000, the fund had been set up development of the State Russian Museum «Friends of the Russian Museum», and with it the Board of Trustees. This is a collegiate body, which was established with a view to reviving the traditions of patronage, charity, ensure the participation of the Russian public in the development of Russian culture, as well as to improve the performance of the largest in Russia and the world museum of Russian art. The objective of the Council is to create an enabling environment for the most efficient use of funds and attract domestic and foreign investors and the realization of cultural, scientific and social development programs, the State Russian Museum.

Continuing the tradition of Russian culture, Russian Museum holds musical evenings and concerts, theater performances in the palaces and gardens, as well as urban festivals devoted to the memorable dates of national history. In the Summer garden every summer playing brass military bands, and the Mikhailovsky Garden in 2008, was the site of the First International festival of landscape design «The Imperial Gardens of Russia», which will now be held annually in the City Days.

Source: mkrf.ru