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- An important decision has been made by the Department of Culture in Moscow – museums will be free for visitors on winter holidays and every third Sunday of the month, starting from January 2012.
A special calendar of various cultural events will be prepared by the end of the year. All – tourists and locals – will be able to use it to get information where to go on holidays.
The Department is expecting the number of visitors in Moscow galleries to increase.
Besides, the authorities are going to extend the opening hours of most museums to 9 p.m. like in many Western exhibition halls.
The full list of museums free on holidays:
- The Moscow City Museum
- The State Museum of the Defence of MoscowThe Museum-panorama “The Battle of Borodino”
- The State Museum of Local History of Zelenograd
- The State Museum of GULAG history
- The State Pushkin Museum
- Vladimir Vysotsky Museum
- The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky
- The Ostrovsky State Museum - humanitarian centre "Overcoming"
- The Memorial flat of Marina Tsvetaeva
- The Moscow Literary Museum of K. G. Paustovsky
- The Moscow State Museum of S.A.Esenin
- Sergey Andriyaka Watercolour school with an exhibition hall
- Ilya Glazunov Moscow State Gallery
- The Moscow State Art Gallery of A.S. Shilov
- The Moscow State Museum “Burganov's House”
- The Museum “Muzeon”
- The Museum of Art Naive
- The State Darwin Museum
- The Timiryazev State Museum of Biology
- A.N. Skryabin State Memorial Museum
- Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts
- The Museum of the History of Russian Navy
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- The Museum “Capital”
- The Museum of V.A. Tropinin and Contemporary Moscow Artists
- The Memorial Museum of cosmonautics
- The “Gogol House" - memorial museum and scientific library
- Tsaritsyno Museum
- The Moscow State Integrated Art and Historical, Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve
- The Museum of Ceramics and the 18th Century Kuskovo Estate
Sources: travel.ru, Department of Culture. Image courtesy: demiart.ru.
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