The second season of the project "Street lecture hall. Local history" starts July 19

The Moscow Museum opens the second season of the project “Street Lecture Hall. Local history. " Like last year, every week the project will move to one of the districts of the capital, where famous Moscow historians and local historians will tell about the history of these places, monuments and legends. In the new season from July to mid-September, the project will cover 10 Moscow districts. Entrance to the lecture is free. The first meeting will be held on July 19 and will be dedicated to China Town.

“The Moscow Museum, as planned, continues its journey through the districts of Moscow. In the summer of 2017, the project “Street Lecture Hall. Local History ”visited 14 districts of Moscow, more than 1,100 students attended lectures. This season we are looking forward to even more interesting Moscow stories and caring participants from a project that started as an experiment, ”says Alina Saprykina, director of the Moscow Museum.

A key component of the project is communication with local residents and cultural institutions of the districts: leisure centers, libraries, cultural centers. Thanks to this, the official story is supplemented by a private, personal one, and the project’s lectures are filled with memories and stories of real people - eyewitnesses of events that you will not find in textbooks. “Street lecture hall. Local History ”is not only information about the main monuments of the district or the type of its development. These are memories of how Margaret Thatcher came to the grocery store in Krylatsky or how schoolchildren met Yuri Gagarin on Leninsky Prospekt after his flight into space, where the best donut donut Zamoskvorechye was located or why the airfield smelled of Izmailovo.

In the 2017 season, the project visited Khamovniki, Zamoskvorechye, Mius, Ramenki and Maryina Roshcha, Nikitsky Boulevard and Shabolovka, Mozhaisk, Gagarinsky, Basmanny districts, as well as Izmailovo, Novogireevo / Perovo, Krylatsky and Preobrazhensky. The new season is new points in the center of Moscow and traditionally sleeping areas.

Lecturers of the new season will be local historians, historians, guides, authors of articles, books and guidebooks Larisa Skrypnik, Pavel Gnilorybov, Denis Romodin, Maria Kalish, Denis Drozdov, Alexander Ivanov, Tatyana Vorontsova, Eugene Pliss, Maria Nikitina.

To prepare the project, a team of almost 20 student volunteers was involved, as well as more than 50 Muscovites of different generations with stories about the areas in which they live or once lived. Everyone who is willing to share memories of different parts of Moscow and their photos is invited to participate in the creation of the project. More information about participation is in the Lectures section of the Moscow Museum website www.mosmuseum.ru. Collected stories and photographs will be able to enter the museum’s collection.

On July 19, in the Old English Courtyard, a branch of the Museum of Moscow, a presentation of the second season of the project “Street Lecture Hall. Local History ”and the first street lecture on the history of Kitai Gorod. The lecture will be held by Larisa Skrypnik, historian, Moscow scholar, senior researcher at the Museum of Moscow.

Schedule of lectures and addresses of venues *:

July 19 at 19:00 - China Town. On the territory of the Old English Court, a branch of the Museum of Moscow (Varvarka St., 4A).

July 24 at 19:00 - Presnensky district. In the courtyard of the historical and memorial museum "Presnya" (Bolshoy Predtechensky per., 4).

July 31 at 19:00 - Yasenevo district. At the site of the cultural center "Inspiration" (7 Lithuanian Boulevard).

August 3 at 19:00 - Yakimanka district. On the territory of the pavilion "School" in the park "Museum" (Krymskaya nab., 16 p., 1).

August 7 at 19:00 - Sokolniki district. On the summer terrace of the Bukvodom library (5th Ray Prosek, 1)

August 14 at 19:00 - Alekseevsky district. At the address st. Boris Galushkina, 23.

August 21 at 19:00 - Ochakovo-Matveevskoye district. At the Library number 218 at the address: st. Nezhinskaya, 13.

September 4 at 19:00 - Sokol district. At the Center for the creativity of children and youth "Falcon" (st. Peschanaya, 5).

September 10 at 19:00 - Konkovo district. At the Library No. 187 (Ostrovityanova St., 19/22).

September 12 at 19:00 - Mitino district. In the Cultural Center "Mitino" (Mitinskaya St., 31k1)

In case of rain, lectures are held indoors.

* Schedule subject to slight changes. The most current program is available on the Moscow Museum website www.mosmuseum.ru

Admission to events is free. Registration at the lecture is not required, but desirable.

You can register here.

The project is implemented by the Moscow Museum Lecture with the participation of the City Excursion Bureau of the Museum of Moscow, the Old English Courtyard, a branch of the Museum of Moscow, the Historical and Memorial Museum Presnya, the Cultural Center Inspiration, the Museum of Art Museum, the Bukvodom library in Sokolniki Park, Central city business library, libraries No. 187 and No. 218, the Resonance House of Culture, the Mitino Cultural Center, the Sokol Center for Children and Youth Creativity.

Information partners of the project: Official portal of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow mos.ru, City Information Channel m24.ru, Radio Moscow FM, Theories and Practices, ParkSeason.