Every trip must have a special experience. To help you choose one, here is a list of interesting events, including exhibitions, tours, concerts and workshops.
This list will help you plan your trip to the Novgorod Region.
Veliky Novgorod
Walking tours 6+
Daily at 10 am, 12 noon, 3 pm, 5 pm (on 9 September 11 am, 1 pm, 4 pm): tours of the Novgorod Kremlin, including the wall-walk and Yaroslav’s Court.
Daily (excluding 9 September) at 11 am, 1 pm, 4 pm: tours of the Novgorod Kremlin, including the viewing platform of St Sophia’s belfry and Yaroslav’s Court.
Daily at 2 pm: tours of the Novgorod Kremlin, including St Sophia’s Cathedral and Yaroslav’s Court.
Tickets available at the museum.
Meeting place: Millennium of Russia monument
Life in a Novgorod village 0+
Daily at 12 noon and 3 pm: highlight tours of the Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Wooden Architecture.
Daily (excluding Tuesdays) at 12 noon and 2 pm: workshops on making a talisman doll.
All tours and workshops designed for up to 15 people.
Address Vitoslavlitsy Museum, Yuryevskoye Motorway
Outbuilding 0+
В музее «Витославлицы» можно посетить You can visit the outbuilding of the Vitoslavlitsy Museum to see horses,, sheep and goats, take pictures with them, and ride a horse.
Open from 12 noon to 7 pm
Address Vitoslavlitsy Museum, Yuryevskoye Motorway
Journey with Onfim 0+
Electric cart tours of the southern part of the Novgorod Kremlin every half hour: 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm on Tuesday to Friday, and 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm at the weekend.
Address Children’s Museum Centre, 3 Sudeisky Gorodok, Kremlin
Tour of workshops 6+
4 pm on 10 September: Centre for the Restoration of Murals, which is restoring the frescoes of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin on Volotovo Field (14th century).
Antonovo, Western wing
Last two weeks 0+
Until 14 September
Closing weeks the exhibition Love Confession to Mark Larisa Novikova’s Birthday: Paintings and Theatre Play Drawings. From the Novgorod Museum Reserve
Larisa Novikova (1930-1998), Merited Artist of the Russian Federation and member of the first string of the Novgorod Branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. Her theatre decorations, pencil drawings and paintings were included in all the district, regional and republican exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s. The lyricism, sincerity and deep emotions of her portraits, still lifes and landscapes impressed and brought joy to viewers. Novikova created cheerful works of art even in her declining years when she was seriously ill. Her works are on display in the museums of Moscow, St Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, Tomsk, Petrozavodsk, Tyumen, Omsk and Arkhangelsk, and in private collections in the UK, Austria, Norway, Russia, the United States, Scotland, Switzerland and Japan.
Open from 10 am to 8 pm except on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Address 5 Nikolskaya Street, St Nicholas Cathedral in Yaroslav’s Court
Come to see 0+
Russian Icons of the 11th-19th Centuries, an exhibition within the framework of the Museum Doctor cycle. The exhibition New Clothes for Old Manuscripts: Restoration of Paper Manuscripts is dedicated to the restorers of the Novgorod Museum Reserve working to restore The Domostroy Household Management Code with Excerpts from the Exordium (Introduction) for April (12th-century copy). The exhibits include rare photographs of the complex process of restoring the manuscript in stages.
Until 15 September
How Tsar Peter Came to Love the Sea, an exhibition from the collection of the Kolomenskoye-Izmailovo-Lyublino and the Novgorod museum reserves.
Open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm. Closed on Tuesdays.
4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Until 20 September
Open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm. Closed on Tuesdays.
4 Kremlin, Administrative building, Main Museum Building
Travel to a miniature country 0+
A new exhibition featuring miniature books and literary heroes from the private collections of Lyubov Vasilyeva and Vladimir Varnayev.
The exhibition is open until 4 October 2020 from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Mondays and on the last Wednesday of the month.
Address Children’s Museum Centre, 3 Sudeisky Gorodok, Kremlin
A dramatised event on Sennaya Square of the Novgorod Kremlin. Whoever you choose as your guide – Posadnik (governor) Sbyslav, his wife Yevfimiya or healer Agafya Melisentovna – you will enjoy the tour and become fully immersed in the past.
Daily from 9.30 am
Address Vazhnya (weighing scales) on Sennaya Square
Evening tour of Veliky Novgorod
An evening tour of Veliky Novgorod is a magical trip that will leave you with a more vivid impression of the city landmarks. The Novgorod Kremlin looks especially impressive at night in the bright light of numerous lamps. The tour includes the Kremlin, the Marketplace and Yaroslav’s Court.
Address Kremlin Park
Daily from 8 pm to midnight
Busy hands, quiet hearts
The exhibition will introduce you to the traditional village crafts of the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century, namely, woodworking, wheel making, furniture making, pottery, smithery, shoemaking, plaiting, weaving, cooperage, fishing, tanning, fur dressing, saddlery and other crafts.
Guests can take part in interactive tours with a workshop on spinning and weaving, souvenir felting, knitting, crocheting, nalbinding, and on making cloth dolls. Anyone can try their hand at these crafts to make their own souvenirs.
Open until 31 December 2020 from 10 am to 6 pm.
Address Church of the Holy Myrrhbearers Museum
The Resounding World of Ancient Novgorod
What is music archaeology? How did medieval people perceive sounds and music? What musical instruments did they play? Guests can receive answers to these and other questions on the Resounding World of Ancient Novgorod tour, during which they can learn interesting facts about the music and musical instruments of ancient Novgorodians, which largely remain a mystery to this day.
Open until 31 December 2021 from 2 pm to 3 pm
Address Povetkin Centre for Musical Antiquitiesа
A unique exposition of the Novgorod Land Arts and Culture Museum about the history of all local monasteries and convents. It features archival and digital pictures, other archival materials, and copies of tracing plans and frescoes.
The tour includes films about Novgorod churches and monasteries, plus paintings and drawings by local artists. Audio guides are available.
Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5.30 pm
Until 31 December 2022
Address Novgorod Land Arts and Culture Museum
The Novgorod Land Arts and Culture Museum has opened a new exhibition, Novgorod Geography, which is divided into three themed sections: Point on the Map, Centre of the Earth, and Streets and Intersections.
Novgorod Geography is an interactive space where you can take a walk alongside 18th century residents of Veliky Novgorod, see the details of the map Pushkin wrote about in his play Boris Godunov, and look at the blueprints of city maps from different ages. Young visitors can make a jigsaw puzzle map of 16th century Russia with exotic animals or a picture of the Novgorod Kremlin.
Open until 30 October 2022
Address 3 Desyatinny Convent
6 pm on 11 September: opening ceremony of the 10th season of the creative project Stopwatch
The programme includes the unveiling of a new art object, Rasping Time, in the Novmartre Art Alley and the opening of a new exhibition season at the Novgorod Contemporary Art Centre.
Visitors are invited to the Lockdown Dialogue (a video review of online Dialogue projects held during the lockdown period), Work Backwards Towards Your Goal (concerts by old Dialogue friends), and Chosen by Time (a performance by young members of the Art Foyer on the Staircase project).
Address 37/9 Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, Novgorod Contemporary Art Centre
Sadko Folk Rock Musical: a spectacular new interpretation of an old legend
Come join us on a journey into the world of legends on the streets of young Novgorod.
A medieval spirit, daring and rousing music, witty lyrics, and an ocean of fire and lighting effects will delight the audience. Over 40 actors, singers and dancers invite you on an adventure in search of your own melody about friendship, love and dreams.
Unique decorations and seats for the audience on the bank of the Volkhov River leave an indelible impression of ancient Veliky Novgorod, which invites guests to make new discoveries.
The next show is scheduled for 12 September at 8 pm.
Address 19/1 Alexander Nevsky Embankment, Veliky Novgorod
The Troubadour instrumental group and members of the Novgorod Region Folk Arts Centre present an intriguing story told by a girl called Tanyusha based on the Children’s Album cycle by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Guests are also invited to choose one of the workshops to make a clay duck, a traditional bunny finger puppet, or paint a wooden magnet. The programme includes a tour of the exhibition Toptygin and Co dedicated to the bear, a traditional Russian character.
Address: Folk Arts Centre
The Soroka professional group of traditional folk singing is a musical brand of Veliky Novgorod. Its bright and merry performances don’t leave the audience indifferent. The group performs at major stages in Russia and abroad, its principal performers hold the title of Merited Artist of the Republic of Crimea, and its leader Irina Fedotova is a People’s Artist of the Republic of Crimea.
Soroka will present a new programme, “Meet me in our secret place on the river,” and their popular songs.
Address 37/9 Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, Dialogue Culture Centre
Borovichi and Borovichsky District
The Alexander Suvorov House Museum offers a workshop on folk games and a tour of the estate.В The Alexander Suvorov House Museum
10 am and 4 pm: workshop on folk games
12 noon and 2 pm: tour of the Suvorov Estate
No events are held on Tuesdays.
Address 19 Tsentralnaya Street, Konchansko-Suvorovskoye, Borovichsky District
Open from 10 am to 4 pm daily, except on Tuesdays
Staraya Russa and the Starorussky District
Places of interest include the Staraya Russa branch of the Novgorod Museum Reserve: the Staraya Russa Local History and Lore Museum, the Picture Gallery and the Museum of the Northwestern Front . Staraya Russa branch of the Novgorod Museum Reserve
Hours:
The Staraya Russa Local History and Lore Museum and the Picture Gallery on 1 Monastyrskaya Square are open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 6 pm (closed Tuesdays and the last Thursday of the month), and on Sunday and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. Phone +7 81652 35 866
The Museum of the Northwestern Front on 23 Aleksandrovskaya Street is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Mondays and the first Thursday of the month. Phone +7 81652 35 285
Phone +7 81652 35 866
Address Monastyrskaya Square, Staraya Russa
The Fyodor Dostoyevsky House Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Mondays and the first Thursday of the month, and the Brothers Karamazov Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Tuesdays and the first Thursday of the month.
Address 42/2 Dostoyevsky Embankment, Staraya Russa
Phone: (81652) +7 81652 51 477 (closed on Mondays and the last Thursday of the month)
Valdai and the Valdaisky District
The Museum of Bells:: open from 10 am to 6 pm
Closed on Tuesdays and the last Wednesday of the month..
Phone +7 81666 20 497
The Provincial Town Museum:: open from 10am to 6 pm
Closed on Mondays and the first Wednesday of the month
Phone +7 81666 26 171
The Museum Bell Centre: is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Tuesdays and the last Wednesday of the month.
Phone +7 81666 24 139
Address 2a Truda Street, Valdai
Phone +7 81666 24 139
Chudovo and the Chudovsky District
You will like the Nikolai Nekrasov House Museum and the Gleb Uspensky House Museum in the beautiful town of Chudovo located near Veliky Novgorod. Nikolai Nekrasov House Museum Gleb Uspensky House Museum
The Nikolai Nekrasov House Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Mondays and the first Thursday of the month
Address 1 Kosinova Street, Chudovo
Open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Mondays and the first Thursday of the month
Phone +7 81665 54 267
The Gleb Uspensky House Museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm, except on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and the last Thursday of the month. Welcome to our museum.
Address Syabrenitsy, Chudovsky District
Open from 9 am to 5 pm, except on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Phone +7 921 023 4465
We accept groups of up to five people. Visitors are required to wear face masks and to observe a social distance of 1.5 m from each other and from other groups.
For additional information about the museums and other interesting places in the Novgorod Region, go to www.novgorod.travel
Discounts are available with the WeLike Novgorod Card for visits to Novgorod museums and workshops. For additional information, go to novgorodcard.ru
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