On April, 15 Russia and many other countries celebrate the International Day of Culture. The date is associated with signing the treaty "On the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historical Monuments" in Washington, D.C. on April 15, 1935, which became known in the international legal practice as the Roerich Pact. The same year there was a holiday dedicated to the Banner of Peace in New York – the official symbol of the Roerich Pact. The painter depicted it as three red circles enclosed in the red circumference depicted on white background.

Culture originates in human activity, cognition and creativity. It ensures the unity of one or another human community on the basis of common worldview orientations, relying on mythology, religion, philosophy, political-legal and moral standards, customs, ideological dominants, etc.

Museums are places where we encounter the history of cultural values, they are repositories of social memory. Looking into the past through exhibitions and displays of artefacts, we better understand the present time. One is usually emotionally enriched and internally recharged by ‘meeting’ certain exhibits. Museums play an important role in preserving, studying and understanding the cultural, historical and scientific heritage of humanity. The primary function of museums is to preserve the continuity of memory, which implies the transmission of socially significant knowledge and experience to subsequent generations. Nowadays, museums have gradually transformed from repositories of values into institutions with multiple functions and opportunities. They are becoming more accessible thanks to modern technologies such as interactive expositions and virtual tours. There has been a significant cultural shift in strategic approaches: from object-oriented to audience-oriented. The new approach prioritizes information,  museum exhibits follow it.

Museum Collection is a cultural and educational project. By storing, attributing and presenting exhibits, the museum actualises cultural heritage, ensuring its correlation and interaction with the contemporary socio-cultural processes, and thus contributing to the reproduction and further development of culture.

Today, on the International Day of Culture, we suggest that you recall the exhibitions held in the museum Collection and see virtual excursions through these exhibitions.

Video excursions sequence (video)
Exhibition ‘Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder’
Exhibition ‘In Dialogue with Chaco’
Exhibition "The Order of Things"
"Circus Parade" exhibition of automata (parts I & II)
Exhibition "Ballad about Glass". Dedicated to Emile Galle ...
Exhibition " Fyodor Lorie and Egor Cheryatov"
Exhibition dedicated to the 155th birth jubilee of Paolo Troubetzkoy

Congratulations on the International Day of Culture to the representatives of creative professions, whose activities are aimed on protecting and multiplying the culture, art and science development.
Inspiration, creative achievements and victories, happiness and prosperity!