Museums of Russia: Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve prepared a series of events marking its 100th anniversary

On February 10, 2023, the Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve (Moscow) turned 100 years old. Events marking the anniversary will be held throughout the year. According to Natalya Sergunina, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Moscow residents and tourists will have an opportunity to see exhibitions, excursions, and outdoor performances.

A hundred years ago, in 1923, the founder of the Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve – the outstanding architect and restorer Pyotr Baranovsky – officially got the right to manage the monuments of the villages of Kolomenskoe and Dyakovo. He decided to create an open-air museum in the entrusted territories.

Unique wooden structures were brought there from all over the country; museum specialists also began collecting objects of Russian art and everyday life. Today, on the territory of 256 hectares in the south of Moscow, there are 10 specially protected natural zones, 16 architectural monuments of federal significance. In addition, there are held numerous expositions and city events.

39 exhibitions are planned for the anniversary year: the main one of them will be called Kolomenskoe. Masterpieces of the Collection. The display in one of the museum spaces – the halls of the Sytny Yard – will present the best items from the collections, numbering over 170 thousand exhibits from the Neolithic era to the 21st century.

The exhibition 10 days from the Life of the Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve is dedicated directly to the foundation of the museum, in which one day equals one decade of the site’s history. The exhibition Kokoshnik. Traditions of Beauty, and the projects Poem of the Heroine. Anna Akhmatova in Kolomenskoe and Soiree will also open in the palace of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich.

In the warm season, three new thematic excursions will be provided to visitors: Meet Kolomenskoe, Kolomenskoe: How It All Started and Travelling by Bicycle. Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Museum.

There will be 28 outdoor events: Peter I’s Day, historical reconstructions, creative workshops and performances of street theaters, days of chess and logic games, an art laboratory, lectures, and much more.