Museums of Russia: Large-scale events, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the M. I. Glinka All-Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture in Moscow

The M. I. Glinka All-Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture (Moscow) in 2012 marks the 100th anniversary. Currently, it is the largest association that has no analogues in the world, taking the storage and promotion of national and international cultural and musical traditions, educational activities. The GAMAMC is a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia. The collection consists of about million units. Its 100th anniversary the Glinka All-Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture is celebrated with a range of activities.

October 1, 2012, the International Day of Music, the Prokofiev Hall of the Central Museum of Musical Culture hosted a "Parade of Museums" - an event that opens the anniversary week in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Glinka All-Russian Museum of Musical Culture Association. The Parade participants are directors and museum staff - members of the Association of Music for Museums and Collections - made presentations of their institutions.

The presentation featured stories about the structure of a museum on the history of its collections and individual items, the permanent collections, exhibitions, concerts, interactive forms to work with visitors and technological innovations.

October 2, 2012 in the Central Museum of Musical Culture is opening the exhibition "Muses. Music. Museum", dedicated to the centenary of the founding of the Glinka All-Russian Museum of Musical Culture Association, which presents masterpieces from the museum colelction.

For the first time to the visitors at the same time are presented main treasures stored in museums associations. This memorabilia of great musicians and composers, music, which they held in their hands, rare recordings, sketches of the scenery and costumes for the famous theater productions, performed by I. Bilibin, K. Korovin, K. Petrov-Vodkin, B. Kustodiev, Mikhail Vrubel etc. The exhibition is divided into five thematic sections. The first of these is the reconstruction of the first fragment of the museum exhibition, which opened 100 years ago, at the Moscow Conservatory.

The next section of the exhibition is dedicated to folk art and sacred music - the two sources of Russian national music school. Rare singing books of the XVI - XVII centuries, Icons, church furnishings are combined with splints and traditional musical instruments, the first collection of Russian folk songs and the first phonograph, where they were recorded. One of the central topics put on personalities. Profile of the Russian school of composition - from its founder, Mikhail Glinka to the famous "Moscow trinity" of the XX century – E. Denisov, A. Schnittke and S. Gubaidulina, consist of paintings and sculptural portraits, photographs, posters, autographs, and they owned things.

One of the most valuable items of the museum collection is presented in the section on Russian music room of early XIX century. Their main attractions are handwritten albums of princesses N. Golitsyna and N. Vyazemskaya, and the album from the archives of the composer A. Alyabiev. They retained autographs by A. Pushkin, A. Mickiewicz, O. de Balzac, D. Rossini, Liszt, D. Meyerbeer.

A separate hall is dedicated to the history of Russian musical theater in the field of set design, portraits, photographs, costumes and posters.

The final part of the exhibition provides an opportunity to look through the most interesting pages of concert life of Russia in the last 100 years.

Also, on October 2, 2012 is opening the International scientific-practical conference "The musical heritage in contemporary society" in the Rachmaninoff Hall of Moscow State Conservatory named for P. I. Tchaikovsky, whose meetings will be held until October 4.