The lecture hall of the Museum of Moscow launches a new program

The fall season of 2019 for the Moscow Museum Lecture begins with updates. In October, the lecture hall will immediately launch six new courses on the history and modernity of the capital.

On October 9, the interdisciplinary special course “City from different sides” begins. It will gather at one site leading experts from different fields - urbanists, cultural scientists, economists, anthropologists, journalists and historians, and a combination of lectures and practical classes will allow participants to take a deeper look at modern research practices in the urban environment.

In 2019, two cycles are planned as part of the special course - “Housing” will be supervised by Alexander Ostrogorsky, an architectural journalist and leading teacher at MARSH, and Oksana Zaporozhets, sociologist and teacher at the Higher School of Economics, “Street”. Weekly classes will consist of lectures and seminars, among teachers - Mikhail Alekseevsky, Maxim Trudolyubov, Dmitry Oparin, Anna Bronovitskaya, Natalya Samutina and other specialists.

General partner of the special course "City from different sides" book service Bookmate.

Also in October, the museum launches five basic courses - “Domestic cinema of the 20th century and life in the city”, “Live in Moscow”, “Moscow. The evolution of the city ”,“ History of Moscow in the archaeological collection of the museum ”and“ Street lecture hall. Local history. " Basic courses will introduce students to various aspects of the history and life of the capital from ancient times to the present day. Listeners will study the daily history of the city through Russian cinema, get acquainted with the features of the townspeople’s life in different eras, go back to the heyday of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, explore the museum’s archaeological collection and talk about Moscow regions.

Basic courses of the Museum of Moscow

The author’s course of the historian and Moscow scholar Denis Romodin “Living in Moscow” is dedicated to the daily life of Muscovites in the 20th century. The course will talk about housing, trade, unrealized architectural projects and brands of pre-revolutionary Moscow.

The course starts on October 21.

The second course of Denis Romodin - the free movie "Domestic Cinema of the 20th Century and Life in the City" - will introduce you to the history of everyday life from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Within the framework of the project, the Moscow Museum and the Documentary Film Center will show domestic feature films of the 1910-1990s: works by Eugene Bauer, paintings with Vera Kholodnaya and the first adaptations of Russian classics.

The course starts on October 1.

On the course of Moscow scholar and journalist Pavel Gnilorybov “Moscow. The evolution of the city ”we will talk about the history of the city from the heyday of the Principality of Moscow until the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Students will learn about the burial rites, Moscow under Peter the Great, the metropolitan Baroque and the engineering art of our city.

The course starts on October 10th.

The course “History of Moscow in the archaeological collection of the museum” is not only an opportunity to learn about the methods of modern archeology, but also to study the collection of the Museum of Moscow. The main topics of the course are the Stone and Iron Age, the foundation of the city, the life of the Middle Ages and the religion of the Moscow region. The program includes lectures, master classes and research on historical museum exhibits. Among the lecturers are researchers from the Museum of Moscow, the Museum of Archeology of Moscow and the Old English Court, as well as invited experts - the chief archaeologist of the city of Moscow Leonid Kondrashev and the head of the department of medieval archeology at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Koval.

The course starts on October 22.

In addition, for the autumn-winter period, the project “Street Lecture Hall. Local history. " Museum historians and Moscow scholars will talk about Kitay-Gorod, Zamoskvorechye, Krylatsky, Basmanny and Tver regions. As in the summer season, lectures will be accompanied by urban research laboratories. The course is free.

The course starts on October 1.