Weekends, holidays, and vacations are great times to go to museums, exhibitions, concerts, and workshops. We have prepared an event guide for Veliky Novgorod and the Novgorod Region for next week that will help you plan your free time.
Just decide whether to spend it on education or entertainment, and we will provide the options!
Veliky Novgorod and Novgorodsky District
The Novgorod Museum Reserve invites everyone on a tour around the Novgorod Kremlin including St Sophia’s Belfry and Yaroslav’s Court
Daily at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm, except on except Wed
Fee: adult tickets – 400 roubles; elderly, students, schoolchildren – 300 roubles; pre-schoolers – free.
Address: Tickets are available in all ticket offices and the Information Centre of the museum: Vaznya, Sennaya Square
Valery Rubtsov Film Museum is the first private museum of film history in Russia. Here visitors can see hundreds of unique exhibits dedicated to the most popular art of all:
• full collection of Soviet amateur cinema equipment of the last century
• rare exhibits of the 20th century world film industry: magic lantern, film cameras, film projectors, editing tables
• all kinds of accessories, equipment, boxes and much more from the world of cinema
• newspapers, magazines, books about cinema published in various years
• photos, posters, tickets and more
• personal cinema archives of popular culture and arts activists (such as Irina Alfyorova and Alexander Abdulov)
• equipment and documents that belonged to celebrities (such as Yuri Gagarin)
• old and rare films, including reels from Soviet-era Novgorod and collections of the Novgorod Museum Reserve.
The ground floor hosts the rarest collections related to the history of cinema in the first half of the 20th century. There are several exhibitions exploring the second half of the 20th century and a cinema hall on the first floor.
There also is a new small exhibition called Projection Booth starting from 3 July 2019.
Address: 16/21 Rogatitsa Street, Veliky Novgorod
At 6 pm on 1 August (Sat) there will be a musical show by Pyotr Termen (theremin) and Viktoria Darian (keyboard) “Theremin 100: Music of the Universe.”
Pyotr Termen will perform jazz, rock hits, film scores and original improvisations on the only non-contact musical instrument on the planet, the theremin, together with Viktoria Darian (keyboards). You will hear world hits from all genres by the likes of Radiohead, Nirvana and David Bowie, Sinatra, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Bach, Mancini played on the theremin.
For those having trouble getting to the venue, there will be a Euroliner bus from the railway station at 5.20 pm (bus stop at the central entrance) and 5.30 pm at Sennaya Square. Transfer is free.
Entrance: donation 300+
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Address : 6 Yuryevskoye Motorway
Phone: (8162) +7 8162 8 911 600 0671; +7 921 730 1097 or message Dmitry
Dialogue is an amazing and unique place. There visitors can see modern art, sneak a peek at the Rachmaninoff sitting room which hosts the interactive costumed exhibition Butakov-Rachmaninoff Family Album. Our centre is conveniently located near Alexander Nevsky Embankment and Park of the 30th Anniversary of October where even the most active can find something to do. Children can play their favourite outdoor games, take part in scavenger hunts, competitions, contests, tours, and concerts. We will treat them to delicious foods from our miracle-working cooks two times a day!
The friendly atmosphere, positive examples and support will definitely help to uncover new talents in your child.
Classes will be held from 8.30 am to 1 pm.
For details call +7 921 191 6719, 946 077. You can purchase a subscription for 10 days, or buy a ticket for one day. Prices: 4,200 roubles for 10 days, 500 roubles for a single ticket.
В The Regional Arts Exhibition is open at the Novgorod Modern Arts Centre until 3 August. This year it is held in all halls on the three floors of the centre. The exhibition includes about one hundred and fifty works showcasing various genres and techniques. Painting, sculpture, and arts and crafts are exhibited in three halls. A separate room is provided for graphics. The small lecture hall is displaying works by Novgorod artist Nikolai Selikov, who passed away a few weeks ago.
The exhibition is open from 11 am to 7 pm daily except Mon and Tue.
Address: 37/9 Bolshaya Moskovskaya, Veliky Novgorod
The Novgorod Regional Centre of Folk Art is happy to invite you to:
Museum and Exhibition Centre
— Toptygin and Co. Regional Exhibition and Contest (until 3 October 2020)
— Irina Kapustyan’s personal exhibition “Know the masters by their work” (until 18 August 2020)
St Nicholas White’s church
— We Will not Forget What Happened exhibition to mark the anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (until 30 September 2020)
Exhibition entrance fee: 45 roubles – children, students, elderly; 60 roubles – adults.
Art workshops and creativity studios in July:
— Veps doll
— bell doll
— Novgorod clay candleholder
— wooden plaque painting
Workshops are held if there is sufficient demand.
Fee: 120 roubles for children, 150 roubles for adults.
Art show
The art show has a wide assortment of souvenirs with the emblems of Veliky Novgorod and its landmarks. Visitors will be offered a huge selection of items made by Novgorod masters.
All services are provided in compliance with the guidelines of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor).
Phone: 8 (8162) 73-96-26
Open: 10 am to 5 pm Mon to Fri
Address: ул. 14 Bredova-Zverinaya Street
The Novgorod Museum Reserve also invites everyone to see its exhibitions:
Christian Antiques: 11th-19th Century Artistic Metal
10 am to 1.30 pm, 2 pm to 5.30 pm, closed Tue, Wed, and the first Mon every month for cleaning
Entrance fee: 100 roubles adults, 50 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: Gostiny Dvor Gateway Tower Memorial Museum. 17th century. Yaroslav’s Court
Novgorod and the Hanseatic League: Gateway to Europe. From the Collections of the Novgorod Museum Reserve
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Кремль, 4
History of Novgorod and the Novgorod Land from Ancient Times Until Late 17th Century
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16 years old
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Russian Icon of the 11th-19th Century exhibition
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
History of Novgorod and the Novgorod Land from Ancient Times Until Late 17th Century
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Russian icon of the 11th-19th Century exhibition
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
14th-17th century Old Russian Carved Wood
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Work for Hands – Joy for the Soul ethnographic exhibition
10 am to 6 pm
Closed Wed, Thu
Entrance fee: 100 roubles adults, 80 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: Museum Church of Myrrhbearing Women.
Evolution of Power: Monuments of Sphragistics and Numismatics from the Collection of the Novgorod Museum Reserve
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Century Administrative building, Main Museum Building, ground floor, exhibition hall
How Tsar Peter Came to Love the Sea exhibition
How Tsar Peter Came to Love the Sea, an exhibition from the collection of the Kolomenskoye-Izmailovo-Lyublino and the Novgorod museum reserves.
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building, ground floor, exhibition hall
Posters of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. The 75th anniversary of Great Victory
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: Main Museum Building, exhibition hall on the ground floor 4 Kremlin, Administrative Building, first floor, entrance hall
I’ll Weave You a Long Belt for a Talisman…
Exhibits from the collections of the Novgorod Museum Reserve
10 am to 6 pm
Closed Wed, Thu
Entrance fee: 100 roubles adults, 80 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: Museum Church of Myrrhbearing Women.
New Clothes for Old Manuscripts. Restoring Handwritten Books
10 am to 6 pm – Mon, Wed, Thu
10 am to 7 pm – Fri, Sat, Sun
Closed Tue, and the last Thu of every month for cleaning.
Entrance fee: 170 roubles adults, 120 roubles students, free for children under 16
Address: 4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
The Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture – is an architectural and ethnographic open-air museum located four kilometres away from Veliky Novgorod.
The museum is open daily:
May — August — from 10 am to 8 pm (ticket offices until 7:40 pm), huts from 10 am to 6 pm; two huts from 10 am to 8 pm; September and April — from 10 am to 6 pm (ticket offices until 5:40 pm); October — March — from 10 am to 4 pm (ticket offices until 3:40 pm).
You can reach the museum by city transport: Bus No. 7, 7a from the railway station.
Contact phones +7 921 020 5422; +7 8162 792 150
Take a ferry along the Volkhov River and Lake Ilmen! The trip is 60 to 90 minutes long. The ferry departs once daily when a large enough group has been formed. You can buy a ticket for a regular cruise only on board. Ferries depart from the Kremlin pier (to the left from the exit from the Kremlin). Ticket price: adults – 500 roubles; children under 12 years old – 300 roubles; children under 7 years old – free of charge.
Today visitors of the Museum and Culture Centre can learn the history of Village Korostyn and how the Dormition Church and En Route Palace were built thanks to copies of images and archive materials from various collections of Russian museums provided to the State Museum of the Novgorod Land Arts.
Information about Lake Ilmen and Ilmen Clint, a unique geological landmark, plays a central role there.
The Novgorod Clay Toy exhibition plays a key role on the exhibition space of the Museum and Culture Centre. There are over 500 samples of clay toys and ceramics made in the artistic and creative experimental workshop of Svyatoslav Tarasov and Yekaterina Kitayeva at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Veliky Novgorod.
You can also sign up for a workshop and have fun while learning with the entire family.
Borovichi
History Museum of Borovich and the Borovichsky District
28 July, Tue
Enter the world of the matryoshka, the famous Russian doll: tales and reality, modern day and tradition. Folk styles and signature painting of matryoshka toys. Matryoshka is a traditional doll and at the same time a mythological artifact. Connoisseurs believe that the Russian craftsman who made these dolls remembered and knew Russian fairy tales well and incorporated the idea of searching for truth and the possibility of finding it only by “getting to the bottom of the essence” – the last figurine..
29 July, Wed
11 am Ancient Ceramic Plates interactive education programme for children Ancient pottery. Ceramic dishes, manufacture methods, specific ornaments in different historical eras. Ancient Potter workshop.
12 noon Painted Balalaika workshop
The history and tales of the Russian balalaika, the world-famous symbol of Russia. Painters of this amazing folk music instrument include some of the most famous artists of the 19th century. In the 21st century, it was painted by the famous St Petersburg group Mitki and then given to the Theatre and Music Arts Museum. Participants of the museum workshop will paint a souvenir balalaika.
30 July, Thu
12 noon Playing with Clay workshop
The history of pottery. Kinds of pottery and its use in everyday life. Proverbs, sayings, riddles. Clay souvenir making master class.
12 pm Herb Doll workshop
The history of creation and existence, the tradition of making folk dolls from straw, shreds of fabric and fragrant meadow herbs. Designing a signature folk costume for a ritual doll. Encouraging interest in folk culture and design of signature expressive images of a doll-talisman-sachet.
31 July, Fri
12 noon Legend of Trilobite workshop
Travel to the world of reliquiae and the ancient realm that used to cover the Borovichsky District 300 million years ago. Make a clay “trilobite,” an extinct marine arthropod.
1 August, Sat
1 pm A family programme of artistic painting of a souvenir balalaika. The history and tales of the Russian balalaika, the world-famous symbol of Russia. Painters of this amazing folk music instrument include some of the most famous artists of the 19th century. In the 21st century, it was painted by the famous St Petersburg group Mitki and then given to the Theatre and Music Arts Museum. Participants of the museum workshop will paint a souvenir balalaika.
2 August, Sun
3 pm Musical tour around the exhibition These Hands Knew How to Make These Sounds. The exhibition explores the life of Valery Dyomin, a Borovichi musician (1942-2015) who led the folk instrument orchestra under the Culture Palace of the Borovichi Refractories Plant. Balalaikas, domras, photos of the orchestra through the years, awards, and personal keepsakes illustrate the city’s musical history.
Pre-register by phone +7 81664 43 084
Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor).
Address: 7 Dzerzhinskogo Street, Borovichi
Open: daily from 10 am to 6 pm
Closed: Mon and the last Tue of the month.
Konchansko-Suvorovskoye
Suvorov Museum Estate
10 am and 4 pm Workshop on folk games
12 noon and 2 pm Tour around the Suvorov Estate
Tours are not held on Tue.
Staraya Russa
The Staraya Russa local history and lore museum, Picture Gallery, and Museum of the Northwestern Front are part of the Staraya Russa Branch of the Novgorod Museum ReserveOpen:
The local history and lore museum and Picture Gallery (1 Monastyrskaya Square) are open Mon to Fri 10 am to 6 pm; Sat and Sun 9 am to 5 pm; closed Tue, and the last Thu of the month for cleaning. Phone +7 81652 35 866
The Museum of the Northwestern Front (23 Aleksandrovskaya Street) is open from 10 am to 6 pm; closed Mon, and the last Thu of the month for cleaning; +7 81652 35 285
Dostoyevsky House Museum — 10 am to 6 pm,(closed Mon, and the last Thu of the month for cleaning;
Museum of The Brothers Karamazov is open 10 am to 6 pm, closed Tue, and the last Thu of the month for cleaning,.
Valdai
Valdai Museums
Valdai Branch of the Novgorod Museum Reserve.
Bell Museum: open 10 am to 6 pm
Closed Tue, and the last Wed of the month for cleaning. Phone +7 81666 20 497
District City Museum: open 10 am to 6 pm
Closed Mon, and the first Wed of the month for cleaning. Phone +7 81666 26 171
Museum Bell Centre: open 10 am to 6 pm
Closed Tue, and the last Wed of the month for cleaning. Phone +7 81666 24 139
тел 8 81666 2-41-39
Malaya Vishera
Malovishersky Museum of Local History and Lore
The museum, founded on 19 April 1991, is located on the first floor of a two-storey brick building, an architectural landmark of the late 19th century. It is the former house of the Kurzhenkov merchant family, founders of glass plants in Malaya Vishera.
The museum has seven permanent exhibitions:
— History of the city
— Malovishersky District landmarks
— Piece of a forest
— Gornitsa (Upper Chamber)
— Kurzhenkov hall
— Hall of Military Glory
— My Life is Railway»;
On 15-30 July, the museum is open Tue to Fri 9 am to 6 pm, Sat 10 am to 4 pm, closed Sun and Mon
Chudovo
You can once again visit Nikolai Nekrasov Museum House in Chudovo,, as well as Nekrasov Agriculture School, and Gleb Uspensky House Museum.
Nikolai Nekrasov Museum House — 10 am to 6 pm (closed Mon, and the first Thu of the month for cleaning);
Gleb Uspensky House Museum — 10 am to 6 pm (closed Tue and Wed, and the last Thu of the month for cleaning).
We will be glad to see you at our exhibitions.
Tours can only be held for groups of up to five with a minimum of 1.5 m of social distancing. Medical masks required to enter museum.
Okulovka
Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai Okulovka Museum
You can visit the museum Mon to Sat 8 am to 5 pm without lunch break (8 am to 6 pm on Fri).
For visitors:
— education tours around museum exhibitions that would be interesting both for adults and children
— entertaining family workshops, scavenger hunts, tours around the city and much more.
Visitors are required to wear masks and gloves at the museum.
Address: 9 Kirova Street, Okulovka.
Phone to learn more: +7 81657 21 363
Tyosovo-Netylsky
For those who enjoy strategic planning, there are two dates for group tours along the Tesovskaya narrow-gauge railway::
— 26 July, Sun, start at 11:45 am.
Registration and programme https://vk.cc/awP446
— 1 August, Sat, start a 1:45 pm.
Registration and programme https://vk.cc/awP5bB
Sit back and relax, and take in beautiful lake vistas and endless peat fields. Enjoy a summer tour while it’s still summer.
Cost: children aged 12+ and adults: 700 roubles, children aged 6-12 years old: 400 roubles, children under 6 years old – free of charge.
Read more about Novgorod Region museums and other landmarks at www.novgorod.travel