CALENDAR: ALL EVENTS - May 2024
31.05.2024 - 11.09.2024Games Our Ancestors Played
The exhibition tells the story of table games, one of the most popular forms of leisure since ancient times. The author of the "Book of Games" of 1283, the oldest surviving treatise on this fascinating pastime, defined them as "games played while seated": primarily chess, draughts, tafl, backgammon, and tric-trac. Cards and puzzles of all kinds can also be included.
15.03.2024 - 26.05.2024Amateur Scholars of Russian History. Pavel Karabanov and Moscow Collectors of the 19th Century
The exhibition is dedicated to the famous 19th-century Russian collector Pavel Karabanov and his contemporaries – Muscovites, history enthusiasts and owners of unique private collections. The amateur scholars of history in the 18th and 19th centuries were defined as those whose concern for the fate of the country's historical heritage led them to search for, preserve and study relics of Russian antiquity.