The Irkutsk Art Museum in the new academic year continues the program "Museum - School"

Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. In the new academic year, Sukacheva continues the program “Museum to School”. Today the first excursions took place - students of the 6th grade of school No. 11 and school No. 1 of Irkutsk visited the museum. Recall that the program is aimed at introducing schoolchildren to the values of domestic and world art culture in order to form their expanded knowledge and ideas about art, the peculiarities of painting, graphics, monumental composition, fostering a sense of patriotism and love for their native city. The Museum-to-School program is oriented toward sixth graders, since in accordance with the curricula in the 6th grade of a comprehensive school, the study of the subject “Visual Arts” begins.

The official start of the program was given in January 2016, and before the summer holidays the museum was visited by more than five thousand students of Irkutsk schools. “The schedule for the new school year has already been drawn up. Each school has its own day, ”said Natalya Goncharenko, deputy director of the museum,“ so children and parents can not worry. During this school year, all sixth graders will visit us. ”

For students prepared several excursions with an overview of various periods and genres of fine art. Children will also get acquainted with the biography of philanthropist Vladimir Platonovich Sukachev, whose collection formed the basis of the museum collection.

Note that the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after V.P. Within the framework of this project, Sukacheva provides services for visiting the museum and excursion services for program participants at no cost. The Irkutsk administration, in turn, takes on the issue of allocating vehicles equipped to transport children in accordance with safety requirements. No fee is required for children to visit the museum from their parents.