#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Representatives of the St. Petersburg Educational Organizations’ Arctic Museums’ Partnership have visited Dudinka.
The community members took part in the Russian Museums Union’s Arctic museums section’s meeting Event Tourism as a Factor in the Development of Arctic Territories and Their Cultural Integration. The event took place at the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore, and participants attended the Dancing Ice art festival.
“One of the promising areas of cooperation between St. Petersburg and the Arctic regions is the tourism sector, the development of which stimulates entrepreneurial activity, the creation of new jobs and social infrastructure, and preserves and popularizes the historical and cultural heritage of Russia. The event tourism development will help unlock the Arctic region’s remote territories’ potential and preserve the Far North indigenous peoples’ culture”, Faina Kushnir, the St. Petersburg Educational Institutions’ Arctic Museums Partnership’s deputy chairman, welcomed the meeting participants.
A memorandum on the Partnership creation was signed by representatives of five schools in the Northern capital in October 2022 at the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic on the initiative of the St. Petersburg Committee for Arctic Affairs.
At the Arctic museums section’s meeting in Dudinka, a bilateral cooperation agreement was signed between the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore and the State Darwin Museum of Moscow. The State Darwin Museum’s director Anna Klyukina and the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore’s director Emilia Stambrovskaya attended the solemn signing ceremony. According to the agreement, cooperation between the museums will develop in exhibition, scientific and methodological activities.
It’s worthy mentioning that the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore was presented a certificate of admission to members of the Natural History Museums Association of the International Museums Council’s Russian Committee.
“The Darwin Museum is a museum of evolution. We are talking about the development of nature, society, humanity. Therefore, our prospects may be very different. We can share our museum work, exhibitions, experience of working with children. The Taimyr Museum has many natural science items, and our museum is just a natural science museum. And I see here a variety of contact points”, noted Anna Klyukina, the Darwin Museum’s director, honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation, candidate of cultural studies, doctor of pedagogical sciences, the Natural History Museums Association’s chairman.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: author
