The theme of the action this year is "Masterpieces from the Reserves". It will be joined not only by museums, but also parks, estates and even film studios - more than 200 cultural institutions. In addition to the sudden queues before the midnight visitors there is another problem - the formation of a rational route, because such nights are only once a year. Here are the main events of the Museum Night.

Museum of Moscow Zubovsky Bulvar, 2 (from MMOMA by car 8 minutes, on foot 20 minutes) This year the action starts in the Museum of Moscow. The official opening ceremony will take place in the courtyard of the museum at 19:00. Every hour from 18:30 to 21:30 there will be free guided tours of current exhibitions: a thorough "History of Moscow for Children and Adults," a cognitive "Three Stories of Provision Warehouses," a symbolic "Image of St. George in the History of the Culture of the 20th Century". In the courtyard of the Moscow Museum from 11. 00 to 23:00 will unfold the market with an interesting menu of Moscow street food. And at 19:40 the courtyard of the museum will turn into a musical platform - the guests are waiting for both a DJ set until late at night, and a classic performed by the Symphony Orchestra. Pushkin Museum Ul. Volkhonka, 12 (from the Museum of Moscow by car 8 minutes, by public transport 14 minutes) This night in the Pushkin Museum you can go not only free of charge, but also without turn. To do this, you must successfully pass the quiz, a link to which will appear on the museum's website on May 19 at 18:00. After that, for all visitors, the museum will open the doors to its storerooms - an exhibition of oriental masterpieces awaits you, which on ordinary days can not be found in any room like the medieval Indian plastics "God Vishnu with the forthcoming" painting, "Escape to Egypt" by Bartolome Esteban Murillo , as well as engraving Katsushiki Hokusai from the series "36 species of Mount Fuji". Special tours of the main exposition will be held by the Club of Young Art Critics. Center for Photography them. brothers LumiernBolotnaya nab. , 3, p.. 1 Center for Photography named after the Lumiere brothers prepared a special program within the framework of the Photobookfest festival. Guests are offered lectures, excursions and film screenings of short films "Fake" and "Lenin is always with me". In addition, for visitors remain open exhibitions "In Search of Lenin", "NOOR. Go and see "and" Swiss photo book today: from the Amazon to the Vienna Ball ". New TretyakovkaKrymsky Val, 10 In the New Tretyakov Gallery will be presented a special project "Night in the" zero ", dedicated to the exhibition" Art of the 2000s ", currently in the museum. This evening, the second entrance to the Gallery with the Crimean embankment. To focus on the ongoing exhibition Vereshchagin, the entrance will be highlighted with the help of street art by the artist Pokras Lampas, dedicated to the artist's work. This evening will feature music of the 2000s, hobby for music videos, the flowering of the youth music television, the cult of the VJs and the format of talk shows and reality shows. The children's studio will hold a master class on poster art, which, as a direction of artistic expression, was very relevant in the art of the 2000s. Institute of Russian Realistic Art Derbenevskaya Embankment 7, p.. 31In this year IRRI prepared several prime ministers. The main event of the evening will be the opening of the long-awaited exhibition "Windows to Russia. Masterpieces of seven generations ". Last year, this exposition made a trip from the west of Russia to the east, becoming one of the main cultural events of the country. Visitors are waiting for the masterpieces of Igor Grabar, Sergei Gerasimov, Alexander Deineka, Yuri Pimenov, Alexander Labas and many others. Special project within the exhibition - revived paintings from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery and IRRI. During the day, guests can enjoy free guided tours and master classes for the whole family. Also at 14:00 there will be a launch of excursions in the Russian sign language for deaf and hard of hearing visitors. The excursion will be conducted by Mikhail Veselov, participant of the training course for the deaf tour guides of the Museum of Modern Art "Garage". Free admission. To participate, you must first register. Artplay Design Center Lower Syromyatnicheskaya Street. , 10 (from IRRI by car 14 minutes) Artplay Design Center will also take part in the action. All exhibitions will be open until 2am and can be visited at a reduced price. So on one site at once it will be possible to visit a multimedia exhibition "Passions by Freud", a retrospective of the exhibitions "Bosch. Revived visions "and" Great Modernists ", the immersion exposition" Samskara ". On the territory of the Pluton factory belonging to Artley, the sensational New Exhibition from the Proun art group has recently opened, where media installations, sound art, video art, kinetic sculptures and audiovisual performances are waiting for guests. And on the roof Artplay will host a large music festival Signal. Museum of the Soyuzmultfilm studio Dolgorukovskaya street. , 25 (from Artplay by car 18 minutes) The first hall of the museum will be fully dedicated to the full-length film "Hoffmanniada", which will premiere this year. The tape directed by Stanislav Sokolov on the works of the German writer Ernst Teodor Amadeus Hoffmann was prepared for 15 years. Part of the sketches of the dolls and the scenery of the film were created by the outstanding contemporary sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin. The manufacture of each doll took about one and a half months. In total, more than 150 characters are involved in the film. In another hall guests will see the original scenery used for the shooting of famous cartoons, as well as dolls from Cheburashka, Crocodile Genes, old women Shapoklyak, Martyshki and Udav from "Z8 parrots" and other characters. All of them are carefully preserved, restored and exhibited in the museum "Soyuzmultfilm". In addition to the excursion, guests will see the latest animation projects of the studio, as well as a visit to the SoyuzMultClub children's center, on the basis of which animation training is conducted. Museum of the Maly Theater (Memorial Apartment A. Sumbatova-Yuzhina) The Great Palashevsky Pere. , 5/1 (from Soyuzmultfilm by car 11 minutes, by public transport 15 minutes) Not all known, but very atmospheric museum. House number 5 on the Great Palashevsky lane was built in 1882. After 10 years, Prince Alexander Sumnatov-Yuzhin settled there and lived until his death in 1927. In memory of the artist, the alley was renamed into Yuzhinsky. The museum-apartment was transferred to the department of the Maly Theater. The exposition includes an artist's memorial room, a living room, a "music room" (a dining room converted into an exhibition and a theater hall), as well as a former bedroom turned into Alexander Ivanovich's make-up room in the Maly Theater, where he not only prepared to enter the stage, but and worked as a director, received visitors. There are exhibitions, evenings, creative meetings and conferences. And on the Night of Museums at 19:00 the visitors will have a unique tour "Lanes of the Old Moscow Theater". House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, Borisoglebsky Lane, 6 (from the Yuzhin apartment by car 9 minutes, on foot 19 minutes) Marina Tsvetaeva's House-Museum presents the program "Museum + Theater" - the audience is waiting for several performances, which were first transferred to the museum site. At 19. 00 museum will perform performance-performance "Chekhov. The monologue ". The presentation is represented by Brusnikin's Workshop. The artists took as their basis monologues and dialogues from the classic's plays, seeing in them the opportunity to find their own meaning. AT 21. 00 Theater "Practice" and Alisa Grebenshchikova will perform a poetic play "All around. Club 125 ", based on the poetry of our contemporaries - Vera Polozkova, Dana Sideros, Anna Logvinova - and those who turned 25 one hundred years ago - Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Osip Mandelstam. At 23. 00 The Center. Vsevolod Meyerhold and actress Ksenia Orlova will present the program "Songs to verses" - songs will be sung on the poems of Nekrasov, Bryusov, Esenin, Khlebnikov, Brodsky, as well as the poem of Blok "Twelve" (based on the scores created in the mono-performance "Vozmessie 12"). ММОМАГоголевский бульвар 10 (from the museum of Tsvetaeva by car 13 minutes, on foot 18 minutes) The circle closes the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Here you will immediately see three exhibition projects, a music program, a cinema and a food court. In the first building, Sergey Sapozhnikov's personal exhibition "Dance" opens, which will open to the world of hip-hop, break dance and street culture.

In the second - the project of Chaim Sokol "Testimony", where the installations, video, "performative" graphics, texts. Group project "My delight". Hair ", located on the first floor of the first building, consists of installations, sculptures, video works, drawings and collages of contemporary artists who from several angles study the theme of hair and their significance in contemporary culture, for example artist Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf represents a triptych on the theme of relationship man to this inalienable and ordinary attribute of corporeality.