Museums of Russia: New Jerusalem Museum to open the "Return to the Estate" exhibition, devoted to its centenary

On September 23, 2020, the New Jerusalem Museum (Moscow Region) will open the "Return to the Estate" exhibition. It is the first large exposition, which showcases the various estate collections so perfectly. It features paintings, graphics, arts and crafts, archival materials - more than 400 items from the museum and private collections. In 2020, the museum celebrates its centenary. The opening of the exhibition is one of the key events of the New Jerusalem Museum anniversary year.

The exposition is divided into parts, which spotlight different topics. The first part is "The Ghost Garden" installation - a single symbolical exhibit, which presents a large-scale map of Moscow suburban estates of 1928. It highlights the modern non-museum use of the reserved ensembles.

The second part - "FUIMUS / We Were", features those who decorated estates in the XVIII-XIX centuries and saved their heritage after the revolution. It allows tracking the fate of several memorial estate items - the way from their first owners to collections of the New Jerusalem Museum. Exhibits reveal the history of several ruined estates in Moscow suburbs and their owners. This section also showcases the unique photographs of everyday life in the estate of the 1920s and 1930s by the classic of Russian pictorialism Yuri Yeremin.

The third section is entitled "Collections" or "The Golden Age of the Russian Estate". It represents the material things: furniture, painting, arts and crafts, medals, weapons that display the taste of the time and the owner. The enfilade layout allows slowly revealing the diversity of estate aesthetics.

The final section is "Territory", which includes materials of complex restoration projects. It features the complex structure of the estate and developing prospects of the territory through the restoration of surviving objects. The new museum exhibition project also spotlights the development of the estates’ tourist potential. The current audience interest in estates and their close location set conditions for sustainable development of territories around Moscow. At present, Moscow Region houses a total of 320 estates. All of them have an opportunity to get new status and serve for the development of Moscow Region as hospitality, scientific, tourist and business objects.