Published on: 2026-10-16
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin will celebrate the 215th anniversary of the birth of critic Vissarion Belinsky, the Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum will exhibit illustrations for the novel “Born by the Storm,” and the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will tell about the culture of the gauchos. More details about these and other exhibitions in the second half of October at the venues of the Moscow Department of Culture can be found in the article on mos.ru. Tickets can be purchased through the service “Mosbilet”.
“Leha was here” at the “Park” gallery
Dates: October 15 — November 15
Address: 12 Nemchinova Street
Age restriction: 6+
The concept of the new exhibitions At the “Park” gallery of the “Exhibition Halls of Moscow” association, there is a simple object: a construction fence made of metal corrugated sheets. On it, the words “sky,” “sun,” and “grass” emerge, intended to remind us of what kind of landscapes an ordinary fence can cover when transformed by the exhibition’s creators into a metaphor.
“Your Own Room” at the “Park” gallery
Dates: October 15 — November 15
Address: Nemchinov Street, house 12
Age restriction: 6+
There is another one in the “Park” gallery exhibition: the authors of the works presented there consider personal experience as a space, a room, in which they try to better understand themselves and answer questions about how people preserve memories (the image of the room in the context of personal creativity was also considered by Virginia Woolf in her essay “A Room of One’s Own”). The exhibition will feature Alina Yambaeva, Tatyana Starovoitova, Daria Barkalova, and Ekaterina Petrova.
“Frequencies 7.0. Against the method. Suitable for everything!” at the Bogorodskoe gallery
Dates: October 15 — November 15
Address: Otkrytoye Highway, house 5, building 6
Age restriction: 6+
New exhibition at the “Bogorodskoe” gallery of the “Exhibition Halls of Moscow” association — part of the scientific art festival “Frequencies,” which is being held for the seventh time. Visitors will see interactive installations and multimedia objects, the authors of which reject conventional scientific rules and canons. The exhibition is arranged as an open laboratory, where one can interact with the exhibits.
“Igor and Alexey Novikov — nonconformists beyond time” at the Belyaevo Gallery
Dates: October 15 – November 15
Address: Profsoyuznaya Street, building 100
Age restriction: 18+
At the “Belyaevo” gallery of the “Moscow Exhibition Halls” association, there is an opening joint exhibition Artists Igor and Alexey Novikov, father and son. Both have their own perspective on the world, painting, and creative freedom.
Alexey Novikov is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, an honored artist of Russia, and a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. The main theme of his paintings is the Russian village — he draws many images of nature from memories of the village of Koshelevo in the Oryol region, where he was born and raised.
Igor Novikov followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming an academician and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts. In his work, he combines classical painting and contemporary art, reinterpreting long-familiar symbols and images.
“Fast Food Museum” in the Gogol House
Dates: October 16–23
Address: Nikitsky Boulevard, 7
Age restriction: 6+
At the Gogol House, works by graduates of the MMOMA School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” will be exhibited. The authors reassemble the concept of the traditional museum, which builds its collections over years, and present their own — made up of images, words, and events.
You can book tickets through the service “Mosbilet”.
“Russian Paris” at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Abroad
Dates: October 16, 2026 — February 7, 2027
Address: Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya Street, building 2
Age restriction: 6+
Interest in Paris and French culture among the Russian intelligentsia appeared back in 1717, after Peter I’s visit to France. Subsequently, this city became a kind of earthly paradise for representatives of the aristocracy and bohemia. In the exhibition of the new exhibitions The Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of the Russian Diaspora included paintings, engravings, pencil and watercolor sketches, as well as archival documents and decorative items. The exhibits tell about how the relations between Russia and France developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
“Belinsky’s Code” at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum
Dates: October 21, 2026 — February 21, 2027
Address: Prechistenka Street, building 12/2
Age restriction: 12+
New exhibition At the A.S. Pushkin State Museum, it will be timed to the 215th anniversary of Vissarion Belinsky’s birth. Visitors will learn how, through constant work, he built his life and gained a reputation.
Moving from hall to hall, one will be able to trace his transformation from a provincial youth into the “fervent Vissarion,” the chief literary critic of the era.
How museums in Moscow and Saint Petersburg exchange exhibits and experience
“Born by the Storm” at the Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum
Dates: October 22 — December 31
Address: 14 Tverskaya Street
Age restriction: 6+
The Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first publication of the novel “Born by the Storm,” the writer’s last work. The first excerpts began to be published in newspapers during the author’s lifetime, and the first book edition was released in December 1936, after his death.
Illustrations for the novel were created over the years by artists Abram Reznichenko, Lev Epple, Nikolai Churabo, Maria Marize, and many others. Visitors will get acquainted with their works and learn how they revealed the characters of the “Children of the Storm,” what techniques they used, and how they conveyed the atmosphere of the work.
You will be able to visit the exhibition with a ticket to museum.
“CultSci XVIII. The Age of Enlightenment in private collections of Russia” at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve
Dates: October 22, 2026 — October 17, 2027
Address: Dolskaya Street, building 1
Age restriction: 0+
Everything most interesting about the Age of Enlightenment, which dramatically changed human life, will be told at “Tsaritsyno.” More than a thousand exhibits will be displayed in eight halls: among them are antique microscopes, telescopes, octants, sextants, theodolites, compasses, automatons, wind-up music boxes, clock mechanisms, navigation charts, gramophones, books with ownership autographs of Mikhail Lomonosov, Alexander Pushkin, and Catherine II, and much more. Museum visitors will learn how scientists of the past systematized knowledge and created inventions that influenced civilization.
Part project There will also be curator-led tours and meetings with collectors, lectures on the Enlightenment era, the history of science and collecting, a creative workshop for teenagers, and much more.
“Heroes of the Fatherland” at the Alexander Shilov Gallery
Dates: October 28 — November 27
Address: Znamenka Street, building 5
Age restriction: 6+
The topic of the Great Patriotic War remains one of the most significant in the work of Alexander Shilov, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of the USSR, and academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. The basis of the new exhibition, dedicated to the Day of National Unity, will be portraits of veterans. Admission is by ticket to gallery.
“From Coins to the ‘Spring Campaign’: The Collection of Georgy Altman. From Recent Acquisitions” at the House of the Russian Abroad
Dates: October 29 — November 29
Address: 2 Nizhnyaya Radishchevskaya Street
Age restriction: 0+
The House of the Russian Diaspora will showcase a collection of awards and commemorative badges that historian and collector Georgy Altman has gathered over 25 years. Among the rarest exhibits are the Cross of the Brotherhood of Russian Truth, the “Sim Pobedishi” badge of the St. Cross squads of Admiral Kolchak’s Russian army, the badge of the Order of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, the duty badge under Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, the membership badge of the Society of Devotees of Russian Military Antiquity from the personal collection of Pavel Vasilyevich Pashkov, and an émigré copy of the badge from the Ice March. Admission to the exhibition is free.
“‘Dreamed all my life.’ Mikhail Bulgakov and Vladimir Dmitriev” at the Mikhail Bulgakov Museum
Dates: October 30, 2026 — April 18, 2027
Address: 35a Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street
Age restriction: 6+
Artist Vladimir Dmitriev became part of Mikhail Bulgakov’s circle of friends in the 1930s and held a special place in it. The exhibition tells the story of the friendship between the two creative personalities, their joint projects, and their influence on each other. Visitors will see archival documents and letters, rare photographs, authentic items, paintings, and graphics. The exhibition’s authors aimed to convey the lively dialogue between Bulgakov and Dmitriev, which remains one of the most memorable aspects of both the writer’s and the artist’s lives even today.
Entry to the exhibition will be possible with tickets at museum.
“Gauchos. The Unique Uruguay” at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve
Dates: October 31 — November 29
Address: Dolskaya Street, Building 1
Age restriction: 0+
New exhibition will consist of two sections: the first will be dedicated to the distinctive culture of the gauchos, who are often called South American cowboys, and the second — to the nature and landscapes of contemporary Uruguay. The audience will see works by several photographers, including Luis Fabini — a well-known Uruguayan photographic artist and visual anthropologist, internationally recognized for his profound humanistic studies of traditional cultures. He has devoted more than 10 years to the Gauchos project: traveling from the Argentine Pampas to the Canadian prairies and Alaska, creating portraits of man and horse.
The program of events in city museums contributes to the implementation of the goals and objectives of the national project in Moscow “Family”. More information about Russia’s national projects and the capital’s contribution can be found at special page.
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