#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On October 1, the Norilsk Museum will turn 85 years old. The cultural institution will celebrate the anniversary with a bright festive celebration in the Eternally New City, where it will recreate the atmosphere of the eponymous event Museum Night – 2024, one of the best museum events in Russia this year according to the national competition Museum Olympus.
The basis of the anniversary events will be a professional program from October 1 to 3 – a scientific and practical seminar for museum specialists from all over the country museum design laboratory RE-Museum. The purpose of which is to discuss and summarize the experience of museum institutional changes, identify inspiring practices for the development and implementation of development strategies among Russian museums.
The agenda for discussion will be the current topic of the re-creation/conceptualization of museums – from issues of developing new exhibitions to creating concepts for the museum buildings reconstruction. The Norilsk Museum is currently on the threshold of large-scale changes. Concepts for the main building of the museum and for the new, largest art museum in the Arctic as part of the complex – the Arctic Museum of Modern Art (AMMA), the project of which is currently under implementation, have been created based on two types of design.
The museum laboratory will host and discuss current practices and new examples of museum design by the changing museums heads, change projects curators, as well as museum designers, architects from Perm, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Irkutsk, Vologda and other Russian cities.
The program will also include a presentation of the book Participatory Practices in Museums, published by the Norilsk Museum and edited by Mikhail Gnedovsky. The collection includes materials from a virtual expert session, the reason for which was a large-scale Norilsk experiment based on involving residents in the city museum design.
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Text: Polina Bardik, Photo: Ekaterina Vyshinskaya / Norilsk Museum
