Visitor rules of the Novgorod State Museum Reserve and its branches amid Covid-19 restrictions
1. Entry is prohibited to visitors who show signs of illness and those who are required to stay in self-isolation.
2. Visitors aged 18 years and above can enter the museum by providing the following documents: the QR code they received on the Government Services. Stop Coronavirus mobile app to confirm that they have been fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 in the last six months, and their Russian passport.
3. Upon entering the museum, visitors are required to sanitise their hands or gloves, wear face masks and observe a social distance of 1.5 metres from other visitors and museum personnel.
4. Groups must not exceed 20 people inside museums (all of them wearing face masks and observing the required social distance) and 40 people outdoors. Buses and steamboats must reduce their capacity by 50 percent, including by agreement with tourist companies. Visitors are required to observe a social distance of 1.5 metres from other visitors and museum personnel.
5. Meetings, conferences, hearings, seminars and other events shall be held via videoconference or in any other online form.
6. Large cultural events have been temporarily suspended.
7. The number of visitors allowed to enter museum rooms in one group can differ depending on the area (Supplement 1) and must not exceed the number stipulated by social distancing rules. Museum personnel may restrict entry to a room until the previous group leaves it.
8. Tickets shall be sold in 15-minute increments.
9. Members of a guided museum tour shall have entrance priority in case of long queues.
10. Visitors using audio guides are encouraged to sanitise the equipment with the sanitiser wipe handed out with the device. The audio guide volume is not to be turned to “loud” in the museum and on the territory of the Novgorod Kremlin. Visitors are required to use personal headphones or those issued at the museum together with a protective cover.
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Facilit |
Maximum number of people per entry group, considering the total area of the facility |
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Chudovo Branch |
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Nikolai Nekrasov House Museum
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30 |
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Valdai Branch |
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Museum of Bells |
Tours: up to 20 people
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Provincial Town Museum |
60 |
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Museum Bell Centre
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60 |
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Veliky Novgorod |
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Administrative building |
250 |
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Children’s Museum Centre |
30 |
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Museum of Fine Arts |
250 |
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Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral |
15 |
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St Nicholas Cathedral |
50 |
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Multimedia panorama: 15 people, every 30 minutes |
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign |
30 |
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Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on Ilyin Street |
15 |
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Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Monastery of St Anthony |
30 |
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Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Wooden Architecture |
1000 |
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Log cabins at the Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Wooden Architecture |
15 |
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Outbuilding at the Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Wooden Architecture |
50 |
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Falcon Yard |
50 |
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Church of the Annunciation on Gorodishche |
30 |
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White (Alekseyevskaya) Tower |
40 |
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St Nicholas Church on Lipno Island |
15 |
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Church of St Andrew Stratelates |
15 |
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Gate Tower of Gostiny Dvor (former marketplace) |
25 |
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Church of Theodore Stratelates on the Brook |
30 |
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Centre for the Restoration of Murals (guided tours) |
Tours up to 15 people
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Restoration Workshops of Alexander Grekov and Valentina Grekova |
15 |
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Church of St Simeon the God-Receiver |
15 |
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Church of the Saviour on Nereditsa Hill |
15 |
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Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on Kovalyovo Field |
15 |
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Church of the Assumption of the Virgin on Volotovo Field |
15 |
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Church of the Annunciation in Myachino |
15 |
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Episcopal Chamber (Chamber of Facets) |
75 |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky museums in Staraya Russa |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky House Museum |
50 |
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The Brothers Karamazov Museum |
50 |
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Staraya Russa Branch |
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Museum of the Northwestern Front |
50 |
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Local History and Lore Museum |
50 |
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Picture gallery |
50 |
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Suvorov Museum Estate in Konchanskoye-Suvorovskoye |
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Suvorov Museum Estate |
30 |
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The Italian-Swiss campaign of Alexander Suvorov: exposition in the stone Church of St Alexander Nevsky |
15 |
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Kitchen wing of Alexander Suvorov’s estate |
15 |
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Borovichi Branch |
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Museum of the History of Borovichi and Borovichi Region |
75 |