Shrovetide at the Museum of Moscow:
cheese festival

From February 28 to March 1, the Museum of Moscow and the Union of Russian Cheesemakers will hold a real Shrovetide. A food court and festivities await visitors in the courtyard of the museum, and a cheese festival in the second building.

The cheese festival, which will be held in the second building from February 28 to March 1, will bring together more than 70 cheese makers from Moscow, the Moscow region and neighboring regions. Nominees and winners of the Italian World Cheese Awards, which is also called the "cheese Oscar", will prepare for the festival visitors dozens of varieties of cheese for every taste - from cow’s, goat’s and sheep’s milk. In the second building it will be possible to try not only cheese products, but also author’s gastronomic sauces, pastes according to French recipes, confectionery and products for a healthy lifestyle. And the main theme of the street food court will be pancakes. Food court participants will present this traditional treat in Greek, American, Mexican and Asian style.

All day in the courtyard modern ethno and folk music will sound. The holiday ends with a costumed procession with stuffed Maslenitsa.

Various gastronomic master classes will be held on the territory of the festival - visitors will be able to prepare the Brie de Surname Cheesecake dessert, find out why cheeses from Normandy and the foothills of the Alps are so different and why they need to get cheese from the refrigerator an hour before eating and learn how to make and decorate chocolate candy.

March 1 in the courtyard of the museum will be the main Maslenitsa festivities. The central event will be the premiere of the "Fair" from the corpse "Bullhorn". Viewers will hear Stepan Pisakhov’s copyright fairy tales about good and love, the composition of which will unite many characters and stories.

As part of the children’s program, creative workshops will be held on modeling, drawing, decoration and floristry. Visitors will be told about traditional Slavic charms - dolls Grechishnitsa, Travnitsa and Stolbushka, and will also be offered to make one of them and take it with them. All comers will be taught to do the Maslenitsa Doll, they will also weave it from a bast. Also, the museum will host master classes on weaving from traditional Slavic material - bast. Boys will be able to make funny beards, and girls - designer hats.

The Children’s Center of the Museum of Moscow has also prepared its program for Maslenitsa. From February 25 to March 1, the Children’s Center will hold several special, Pancake week museum lessons, and on February 29 will present the musical and educational program "Journey to the World of Bylin".