Plus 12 500 new followers on social networks and 500 thousand virtual visitors, with such results the Museum completes an online period of its existence during a pandemic.
But opening July 1, the doors of the Museum and a live orchestra welcoming the first visitors (“We really missed the audience,” admits Levykin), the Museum is not aiming to reach dekorativnoe the number of visits. The main thing for him is to recover and to ensure the safety of their visitors. The modes of Museum visits so far, I suggest a tour group of no more than 5 people, a visit to the main building will be divided into 15-minute sessions, St. Basil’s Cathedral – 10 minutes, and the chambers of the Romanov boyars – 20 minutes (however, upon entering, stay in the museums of the GMM can be arbitrarily long). The main building and the Museum of 1812 will be open from 10 to 21 hours, St. Basil’s Cathedral and chambers of the Romanov boyars – from 10 to 19. Museum of GIMA will operate seven days a week. Priority online ticket sales. Social distance, mask, gloves (which can be bought in the Museum kiosk), all precautions will remain in effect until August 1.
Alexei Levykin invited visitors to record-breaking popularity of the exhibitions, a time which will last until autumn, and drew attention to the who in quarantine is particularly relevant exhibition prepared for the 75th anniversary of the Victory and dedicated to the heroism of medical services during the great Patriotic war. Entrance to the exhibition (and therefore, in a Museum) for medical professionals – free of charge.
In late July, the Museum plans to open an exhibition Rokotova, but other exhibition plans, according to levykina may have collapse, bringing them for 2021. Part of the online events (and their time of quarantine had accumulated 1000) the Museum will leave in force, what to minimize, for example, is very popular short online lectures, centered around a Museum object? Moreover, the increase in visits (and especially 250 thousand virtual visits to the gym in the famous “Night of museums”, also took place in this year online) said about the rise of interest in history and culture among the younger generation.
the Museum is going to continue work on the establishment of a branch in Tula and boasts a new edition dedicated to the “Golden Treasury” of the Museum, appearing just in quarantine. Levykin reminded that the fundraising continues for restoration of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, and the restoration will begin this year. Answering a question of journalists, waiting to see whether in the gym, for example, Chinese tourists, Alexey Levykin said: “of Course, like other foreign guests.” But he added that the percentage of foreign visitors to the Museum reached up to 4 and only after the world Cup had reached 25. The main audience of the Museum is Russian. As a specialist on Russian and foreign antiquarian��WMD weapons, he reminded the audience about the July gun of the masterpieces of the Museum contains the Royal collection-level armor of the XVI-XVII centuries, a fine collection of firearms and the unique sword of Alexander II, the former with him during an assassination attempt. I immediately wanted to feel this weapon in “live view”.
