Museum Line at MIBF 2021
In 2021 MIBF Museum Line once again will highlight increasing influence of museums as art and nonfiction publishers as well as will inspect educational, research, exhibition and online activities of leading museums and cultural institutions as resource and platform for further museum & publisher collaboration.

MIBF Museum Line presents publishing and educational programs of leading museums, their research activities and exhibition projects, uniting professionals of publishing and museum world. MIBF Museum Line is books on art, architecture, photography, books on theater and cinema, design and fashion, sociology, philosophy and psychology of culture, publications on contemporary art and new media, as well as urban and ecology, natural sciences and other fields of knowledge falling into the territory of interests of the modern museum.
presentation
Participants:
Elena Zhuk, Director of the House Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, Doctor of Sociology (Moscow, Russia)
Alina Popova, translator, literary critic, member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg, Doctor of Philology (Saint Petersburg, Russia
Alessandro Achilli, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Milan
Moderator: Ekaterina Zvorykina, MIBF Museum Line curator (Moscow, Russia)
book
Among the translations collected in this edition are the works of Shakespeare, Rilke, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Goethe, Lorca, Franco, Mickiewicz, Jewish poets, all the poetic translations of Tsvetaeva identified to date.
Authors-compilers: A. Akilli, L. A. Vikulina, K. A. Grigorieva, E. B. Korkina, T. F. Neshumova, V. S. Polilova, A. I. Popova, R. Rusev
Publishing house: Boslen, The Institute of Translation, 2020
presentation
Participants:
Ivor Crotty, Deputy Director of RT's Innovation Projects Directorate, editor, lecturer, and sociologist
Anna Fedorova, Creative producer of RT's innovation projects
Lena Medvedeva, Editor, copywriter
Denis Davydov, Curator of the KNIGABYTE Innovation Forum
meeting
Participants:
Georgy Lordkipanidze film producer, Russia
Valeria Kosyakova, Doctor of Culturology, a lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia
Sergei Zotov, philologist, cultural anthropologist, UK
Svetlana Yatsyk, medievalist historian, Doctor of History, France
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Russian Russian architecture 100 wooden houses – the best buildings of Totan Kuzembaev, Nikolai Belousov, Alexander Brodsky, Alexey Rosenberg and other modern Russian architects, arranged in chronological order, unwittingly reflect the history of the latest Russian architecture of the country house of the last twenty years.
Author: Nikolay Malinin
Publishing house: GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020
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In the series "GARAGE.txt" the monograph of the founder of the Thermin Center, Andrey Smirnov, has been published. The book is devoted to the history of the art of sound and music technology in Russia and the USSR in the first half of the twentieth century. Developments of that time in the field of sound, for a long time unknown to the general reader, are still striking today, almost a hundred years later, as confirmed by modern practice.
Author: Andrey Smirnov
Publishing house: GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020
almanac
The issue of zina is timed to coincide with the personal exhibition of Rostan Tavasiev "Designing Planetary Nebulae" (2020), and includes articles by the artist and astrophysicist Sergey Popov.
"Outstanding artists Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Francisco Infante-Arana, Olafur Eliasson work fruitfully with outer space.
Authors: Rostan Tavasiev, Sergey Popov
Publishing house: The almanac was released with the participation of "Book Corner. Lives and works"
book-album
The creative experiment is part of the educational programs that the museum conducts within the walls of the museum and on online portals. The art assignments in the book, which is also a drawing album, are related to the artist's works, texts, and poems.
Publishing house: AZ Museum, 2018-2020
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The two-volume book, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the formation of VKhUTEMAS, contains materials that tell about the Printing Faculty of VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN, about its teachers and students, about how their fates developed. The books include biographies of teachers and students of the faculty, a catalog of student printed works (1920 -1930), a catalog of collective works of faculty graduates (1927 -1954).
Author: Leonard Chertkov
Publishing house: Boslen, 2020
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One of the most famous Russian film critics tried to give simple and clear answers to the main questions about cinema. Konstantin Bronzit, a well-known animator and artist (as well as an Oscar nominee), created funny and unusual illustrations.
Author: Anton Dolin
Illustrator: Konstantin Bronzit
Publishing house: Alpine Kids, 2020
book-quest
The book-quest based on the material and plans of the exhibition halls of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts invites you to make an imaginary journey to Ancient Egypt and experience a lot of adventures: to pave the way through unfamiliar terrain, overcome numerous difficulties and find mysterious treasures. The publication is provided with a dictionary of terms and names.
Author: Olga Dyuzheva
Publishing house: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2020
guide-comics
The museum comic by the St. Petersburg artist Varvara Tomato tells the chamber story of a walk through several halls of the Hermitage. A miniature book of almost pocket-sized format impresses with the thoughtfulness of the details. A non-boring guide for dreamers, which will interest not only children, but also adults.
Author: Darya Agapova
Illustrator: Varvara Pomidor
Publishing house: The State Hermitage, Arca, 2018
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What is sculpture? What are its characteristics? How to look at a sculpture in order to see it?
This richly illustrated book describes materials, techniques, and types of sculpture, ranging from graceful figurines to monumental equestrian statues, and contains a fascinating overview of the history of sculpture from ancient times to the present, its favorite characters and motives.
The book is intended for children of 11-15; it can be used by school teachers of art history and museum educators.
Author: Nadezhda Kovaldina
Publishing house: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ABCdesign, 2020
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This book in the series of "Learning to Look" begins with a brief historical overview of 17th-century Dutch painting, the period known as the Dutch Golden Age. The author provides a detailed and fascinating description of its distinctive themes, motives and genres, such as landscape, scenes of everyday life and the famous Dutch still life. A special section is dedicated to the great painter Rembrandt. This profusely illustrated edition is intended for children of 11-15.
Author: Irina Zakharova
Publishing house: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ABCdesign, 2020
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The book reveals specific characteristic of graphics as an artistic language using the example of a particular type of graphic arts – drawing. Several sections are devoted to the techniques and materials of graphics. The author treats complex subjects in a simple, captivating and detailed manner, while abundant illustration makes the journey through graphic arts even more exciting.
The book is intended for children of 11-15 and can be used in class by school teachers and museum educators.
Author: Anna Chudetskaya
Publishing house: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ABCdesign, 2020
book-album
The creative experiment is part of the educational programs that the museum conducts within the walls of the museum and on online portals. The art assignments in the book, which is also a drawing album, are related to the artist's works, texts, and poems.
Publishing house: AZ Museum, 2018-2020
In Shanghai, the Museum Line Kids consolidates several cross-cutting activities of The Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) and The New Moscow international children's book fair 2021 (New MICBF) in the presented selection of books: non-fiction, book illustration and book design, as well as Russian comics.

Museum Line Kids RIGHTS SHOWCASE at CCBF 2020 shows an exciting museum comic-guide for children and adults "Journey through the Hermitage. The Queen of Tulips" published by The State Hermitage and ARKA in 2018 and 3 series of books published by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the V-A-C Foundation for contemporary art, and Alpina Kids. The selected editions were released in late 2019 and early 2020. They represent contemporary Russian book illustration in the reinterpretation of classic works of children's fiction by contemporary young Russian artists, museum non-fiction, current approaches in the domestic museum educational process for children and book design.
Author: Lewis Carroll
Artist: Pavel Pepperstein
Publishing house: V-A-C Press, 2020
Author: Oscar Wild
Artist: Sveta Shuvaeva
Publishing house: V-A-C Press, 2020
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Artist: Alexey Buldakov
Publishing house: V-A-C Press, 2019
presentation
Participant:
Anton Dolin, film critic, journalist, Russia
presentation
Participant:
Lyalya Kandaurova, musician, journalist, Russia
presentation
Participant:
Daria Agapova, author, Russia
Natalia Lomykina, journalist, Russia
Museum Line at #LiberDigital 2020,
October 27-29
Museum Line took part in Liber International Book Fair program, which was held this year in a new format:
#LiberDigital. As a part of Russian participation in the International Book Fair Liber (Barcelona, Spain), Museum Line presented two panel discussions on professional topics that are open for discussion as part of the Museum line program at the MIFF 2020, aimed to strengthen existing and create new connections in the art world through the connection of books, art and the Museum. These diverse connections are collected in the Museum line project, which has been helping museums and cultural institutions promote their book publishing for several years, and aims to expand the influence of books through art.
discussion
Participants:
Boris Fridman collector, Russia; Juan Manuel Sevigliano Campalans managing Director of the Gala – Salvador Dali Foundation, Spain; Mercedes Basso Director of philanthropy at Private Banking CaixaBank, Spain.
Moderator: Vladimir Raevsky journalist.
Co-organizers: MIBF Museum line, Russian House in Barcelona Foundation.
discussion
Participants:
Silvia Redondo Director of the library of The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya MNAC, Barcelona, Spain;
Mikhail Tolmachev artist, lives and works in Moscow and Leipzig. Author of the "Serendipity search" concept for the archive and website of the V—A—C Foundation, Russia;
Valery Ledenev art critic, member of the scientific Department of the Garage Museum of modern art, Russia. Moderator: Varvara Ganicheva, curator of the educational Department of the V-A-C Foundation for contemporary art (Russia – Italy).
Co-organizers: MIFF Museum line, Russian house in Barcelona Foundation.
Museum Line at MIBF 2020
Over 30 museums and publishing houses took part in MIBF Museum Line and its program
Ad Marginem / ABCdesign / Artclassica / Artguide Editions / Art Volkhonka / Booksmart / Dom Publishers / Iskusstvo XXI / Kolo / Kontakt Kultura / Kuchkovo Pole / Northern Pilgrim / Rudentsovy Publishing House / Session / Slovo / The Art Newspaper Russia / 3 Kvadrata / Custodia Foundation (Paris, France) / Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / VDNKh / The State Tretyakov Gallery / the State Historical Museum / Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum / A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum
The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center / Moscow Museum of Modern Art / The Central Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art / GULAG History Museum / Moscow Kremlin Museums / Joseph Brodsky One and a Half Room Museum / Museum of Russian Impressionism / 'Garden Ring' Museum / Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / AZ Museum / The Polytechnic Museum / The Russian National Museum of Music / The State Russian Museum / V-A-C Foundation / The Manege Central Exhibition Hall St. Petersburg / Palace Museum (Beijing, Cnina)
International projects showcase
2 September 2020
15:30–16:15
Olga Romanova, the project coordinator, talked about how the largest international project was being created and how the work of a cult Korean artist was connected with the works of Russian avant-garde artists. She also discussed what the exhibition in the St. Petersburg Manege consisted of and why this exhibition should be seen by anyone interested in contemporary culture. The project opened as part of the program of the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum and the exchange year of culture between Russia and the Republic of Korea.

Participants: Lee Bul (artist, Republic of Korea), Olga Romanova (coordinator of international projects, CEH 'Manezh', St. Petersburg, Russia), Sujin Kim (curator, co-curator of exhibition 'The Saved Utopia', Republic of Korea), Sujin Lee (curator, co-curator of exhibition 'The Saved Utopia', Republic of Korea).
3 September 2020
11:15–12:00
Cooperation between the Moscow Kremlin Museums and the Palace Museum (Beijing, China): 'Treasures of the Palace museum (Gugong Imperial Palace). The era of China's prosperity in the XVIII century' (Moscow Kremlin Museums). 'Ceremonials of the Russian Imperial Court from the Moscow Kremlin Museums' (Palace Museum). A teleconference with employees of the Palace Museum. Meeting with curators, employees of the Department of International and Exhibition Activities of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, and the designer of the catalog

Participants: Gao Rui (researcher, foreign affairs department, Palace Museum, Gugong, China, participates online), Svetlana Amelekhina (curator of exhibitions, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Fedor Panfilov (curator of exhibitions, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Maria Vilkova (curator of exhibitions, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Sergey Orlenko (curator of exhibitions, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Ekaterina Kogut (curator of exhibitions, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Tatiana Kostakova (designer, Russia), Anastasia Parshina (coordinator on behalf of the international department of Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia), Elena Milovzorova (director of the department of publishing and special programs of Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia).
5 September 2020
14:00–14:45
For decades, Stockholm housed a large and unique collection of early works by Anatoly Zverev, put together by the friend of the great collector George Kostaki-Dimitri Apazidis. The book-catalogue 'The Life and Adventures of Anatoly Zverev' contains previously unknown, unexpected and masterfully executed works: landscapes, sketches from the life of Sokolniki Park, illustrations of Anatoly Zverev to Ilf and Petrov's novels 'The Twelve Chairs' and 'The Little Golden Calf', and, of course, portraits. This book is not a classic museum catalog, but a storytelling experience. The common thread is the story of the collection's curator Georgy Apasidis, who knew Zverev closely. The works are accompanied by the artist's own apt statements - and the life and adventures of Anatoly Zverev are shaped by this dialogue, by memories and paintings.

Participants: Natalia Volkova (chief curator of the AZ Museum, Russia), Georgiy Apazidis (curator of the collection in Stockholm, Sweden, participates online).
4 September 2020
18:45–19:30
In early 2019, the Fondation Custodia in Paris hosted the exhibition 'Five Centuries of European Drawing from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts'. In 2020, the Pushkin Museum displayed selected drawings from their collections in the exhibition 'From Dürer to Matisse ...'. Both the Paris and Moscow expositions are largely the same in composition, but still not identical. In fact, they are two stages of a single project. The comparison of these exhibitions, as well as the French and Russian versions of the catalog, is the theme of this panel discussion. Participants include the director of the Fondation Custodia Ger Luijten (online), specialists from the Pushkin Museum, as well as representatives of the Slovo/Slovo publishing house. Vitaly Mishin, a leading researcher of the State Museum of Fine Arts and curator of the exhibition 'From Dürer to Matisse...', will present the catalog issued for this exhibition by Slovo/Slovo publishing house. The speech provides an analysis of the text composition and structure of the publication, shows the ties between the organization of illustrations in the catalog and the exposition solutions.

Participants: Ger Luijten (Director, Fondation Custodia, France, participates online), Vitaly Mishin (curator, leading researcher, 19th-20th century Europe and American Art Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia), Oleg Antonov (Deputy Head of the graphic department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia), Oksana Lebedeva-Skochko (Art Director of Slovo Publishing House, Russia).
Contemporary Art
6 September 2020
14:15–15:00
Curators, artists and specialists from the V-A-C Foundation, MMOMA and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art discussed the role of contemporary art museums in the rethinking of libraries. The conversation was attended by Varvara Ganicheva, Yan Ginzburg and Mariana Karysheva.
4 September 2020
17:30–18:15
At the meeting, artists who worked on books for the children's series of the Foundation talked about their children's reading experience, how their work was influenced by the tradition of children's book illustration, what role the pictures played in the fairy tales read in childhood, which fell into memory and fueled fantasy.

Pavel Pepperstein, Evgeny Antufiev, Svetlana Shuvaeva, Alexey Buldakov and designer Tigran Avetisyan shared the details of their reading biography.
5 September 2020
18:45–19:30
The monograph 'Blossoming Fields' in two volumes, on the one hand, illuminates the creative path of the famous artist, author, cinematographer, rapper and fashion designer Pavel Pepperstein. On the other hand, it is a bold experiment in book design. It is an example of half autobiographical (retrospective) and half utopian (perspective) auto-commenting and philosophical reflection on the artistic process, which can be considered both strictly individual and socially significant.
5 September 2020
20:15 – 21:00
Any museum is an airtight environment dedicated to one theme. The interior, exhibits, infrastructure, visitors and employees of one museum is significantly different from any other - each museum has its own face and history. This concentrated image becomes a fruitful theme for artists. We have collaborated with the Tretyakov Gallery and Polytechnic, we have painted in many museums of Moscow, from the largest to the smallest. The exposition presented works by teachers and students of the school.
New publications and exhibition catalogs
2 September 2020
14:15–15:00
A comprehensive approach to project preparation and implementation: work of a curator, designer of the catalog, designer of the exhibition space, researchers of the children's center and lecture block, advertising department, souvenir department.

Participants: Tatiana Muntian (curator of the Faberge collection, curator of the exhibition and author of the catalog, Moscow Kremlin Museums); Dmitry Mordvintsev (catalog designer, head of ABCdesign, Russia).
3 September 2020
19:00–19:45
The blockbuster exhibition 'Tattoo' resumed its operation after the quarantine: For the first time, it was held at the Paris Museum on Branly Quay, then it circled half the globe and recently appeared in front of the Moscow public at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Curators and the editor will present the official book of the exhibition, talk about its content and design features, as well as show visitors the most iconic exhibits.

Participants: Varvara Shkermeneva (curator, Deputy Head of Exhibition Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia), Alexandra Savenkova (leading specialist in exposition and exhibition activities of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia, participates online), Elizaveta Novikova (leading editor of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia, participates online)
5 September 2020
15:15–16:00
The museum collection of the British poster is unique: there are early commercials, announcements of performances and exhibitions, political cartoons of the 1900s, propaganda of the 1930s, famous Art Deco design and bold graphic experiments in advertising. The work of the pioneers of 19th-century English advertising - Aubrey Beardsley, the Beggarstaff brothers, Dudley Hardy and a brilliant array of graphic designers of the first decades of the twentieth century - Tom Pervis, Edward Bowden, Paul Nash, etc. - is presented in large volumes.

Participants: Irina Nikiforova (curator, leading researcher, 19th-20th century European and American Art Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia)
5 September 2020
16:30–17:15
Irina Obukhova-Zelinskaya: Yuri Annenkov. Portraits through time
The monograph by Irina Obukhova-Zelinskaya is dedicated to the portraits of the Russian, Soviet and French artist Yuri Annenkov (1889-1974). The images of the key heroes of the twentieth century - politicians, people of art, poets, writers and beautiful women - were created by Annenkov in different techniques: pictorial, graphic, printed. The book describes each model, its relationship with the artist, the circumstances of creating a portrait and its future fate, also often unexpected and dramatic.

Participants: Yulia Petrova, Georgy Kuchkov, Igor Svetlov, Anna Dyakonitsyna, Mikhail Gogolin and Anastasia Vinokurova.
5 September 2020
17:30–18:15
NKVD Siberian concentration camp. Pastor Wagner's Last Letters': An experience in finding repressed relatives, a research project of Alexander Makeev. Alexander collected materials for his book about the fate of his great-grandfather for three years. The book was prepared and published as a part of the publication program of the Gulag Museum of History and the Memory Fund, in partnership with the 'AST' publishing house and with the support of the Embassy of Germany.
5 September 2020
17:45–18:30
Exhibition in a box, or Perfume for a poetess from the Museum of Russian Impressionism
Anna Akhmatova's favorite spirits, perfume - dedications to Isadora Duncan and fantasies about Silver Age colognes. Curator of the Museum of Russian Impressionism Elena Sharova and perfumer of the brand NŌSE Timur Solodov created a series of fragrances to graphic portraits, presented at the exhibition 'Yuri Annenkov. Revolution at the door'. Why does an art museum need fragrances? How to find the formula of the famous poetess' favorite perfumes and revive them? And how to invent a scent based only on inspiration from a work of art? This is what was discussed at the meeting.

Participants: Elena Sharova (curator of the educational department of the Museum of Russian Impressionism, Russia); Timur Solodov (perfumer, founder of the brand NŌSE, Russia).
6 September 2020
18:00–18:45
This project is devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. There are more than 50 previously unpublished photos of Berlin in the spring and summer of 1945 in the album based on the exhibition. They were taken by war photographer Ilya Arons and a young Valery Ginzburg, who would later become a famous cameraman. The album will be presented by TEFI award winner Elena Lvovna Yakovich, the curator of the exhibition 'Unknown Berlin. May 1945'.
4 September 2020
14:00–14:45
The first museum of the avant-garde. The fate of the collection
An employee of the State Tretyakov Gallery presented the publication, dedicated to the exhibition 'Avangard. List № 1. To the 100th anniversary of the Museum of Pictorial Culture'.
3 September 2020
14:00–14:45
Life of the Sovereign Yard: Family reading or take a book from a museum home.
A meeting with the authors of a series of books for family reading: Marina Rakitina, 'Life on the female half of the royal palace in the XVI-XVII centuries' and 'Royal Wedding in Russia XVI-XVII centuries'; Julia Uvarova, 'Court celebrations in the Moscow Kremlin. From Peter I to Nicholas II'; N.V. Roshchin 'Tsarist dress'. We held a quiz on the knowledge of ancient traditions and rites with a demonstration of festive vestments of the bride/queen with explanations and comments from authors of books and lecturers.
4 September 2020
11:45–12:30
Moscow Kremlin Museums on the eve of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great.
A meeting with custodians, curators, authors of books and catalogs for the exhibition
6 September 2020
12:30–13:15
Irina Sirotkina. 'Dance': Experience of understanding
Cultural historian Irina Sirotkina presented her book, in which dance is examined both as a kind of art and as a component of human motor culture, its corporality and affectivity. In the book the author asks questions about the essence of the dance, how it differs from jig, whether it is art or a force of nature, how dance affects the viewer, whether there is an ideal body for dance, what is the difference between ballet, dance-modern and post-modern. It also offers the reader a look into the distant past and the future of dance.
6 September 2020
11:30–12:15
Virtual multimedia exhibition with audio play 'Music of Heroes'.
'Music of Heroes' is the music of those who worked in the rear, fought on the front line, played concerts at the front, maintaining the morale of soldiers. The core of the project was an audio spectacle, the script of which is based on real events. Genuine materials from the funds of the Museum of Music reconstruct the life of that time. The audience will learn about the orchestra of besieged Leningrad, the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony № 7, and the film concert 'Concert to the front', which was attended by Arkady Raikin, Lydia Ruslanova, Ivan Kozlovsky, Klavdiy Shulzhenko and Leonid Utesov.
Professional agenda
2 September 2020
16:45–18:45
Current copyright issues in the national and international museum, exhibition and publishing activities
Museum specialists and lawyers, representatives of art copyright enforcement organizations from Russia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Spain will discuss a number of topical copyright issues in museum exhibition and publishing activities: the medialization of collections, interaction between museums and private collectors, storage of the collection, transfer of the collection to the museum, the rights of a private collector - the rights of the museum - the rights of funds; peculiarities of interaction between Russian and foreign museums, etc.
3 September 2020
11:30–13:30
Why are there so many translated children's books in our museum stores? Publishing programs and book projects for children in Russian museums
The virtual exhibition of books for children 'Behind the Book - to the Museum', prepared by the Moscow International Book Fair and Museum Line for the 'Night of Museums 2020', has become an indicator of the overall picture of the domestic museum book publishing for children. Since this project, as well as the Museum Line itself, is conceived to help museum book publishing, we have discussed its problems and prospects together.
4 сентября 2020
11:30–12:15
How to make a quest in 30 minutes at your home
The Polytechnic Museum employees described what guides and programs were created in it during the reconstruction, as well as what awaits children in the new Polytechnic. The museum staff also explained how to make an interesting quest for your children.
4 September 2020
12:30–13:15
Quests in the Tretyakov Gallery. 'A Russian fairy tale from Vasnetsov till now'
A unique edition, combining the quest and the guide for adults and children. The quest form of classes with young visitors was tested in the Tretyakov Gallery several years ago. Today, visitors are offered three options of routes on the permanent museum exposition and one route on the temporary exhibition 'Russian fairy tale from Vasnetsov till now'. This is about the educational project of the Tretyakov Gallery 'Lavrus', its interaction with printed and electronic publications.
4 September 2020
13:45–14:30
Lavrus: why does the museum need its own online media?
We continue the story about the educational project of the State Tretyakov Gallery 'Lavrus'. The guests learned about the concept and history of the project idea (from electronic publications in various formats to a large website), its current state and future plans.
5 September 2020
11:30–12:15
'I will take you to the museum…' Quests and guides of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
A meeting with employees of Moscow Kremlin Museums, authors, designers of museum guides and guides, quests, including for children. Quest for the best knowledge of history and architecture of the Moscow Kremlin. Acquaintance with the museum collection through books and guides: N.A.Grigorieva 'Here you can't count the tsarist treasures'; L. V. Solovyova 'What and how Italian architects built in the Moscow Kremlin in XV-XVI centuries'; D. K. Valyavin 'The Moscow Kremlin'; T. V .Filatova 'Armory' and others.
6 September 2020
17:45–18:30
The library catalog and its role in museum communication. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Library of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art was pleased to present its catalog developed by the department of scientific bibliography and information. It is a database of book, journal and digital collections of the library and its archive. The catalog reflects the stock of knowledge and experience that the museum has accumulated over 20 years and is now available to a wide audience. The catalog has just started to be replenished with records, but already now it counts more than 1,500 descriptions for printed materials and about 500 records for electronic documents of different types - photos, audio, video files and electronic publications.

Participants: Jan Ginzburg, Roman Korolyov-Namazov
2 September 2020
13:00–13:45
'Psychology of care'. Experience of social volunteer work at the Gulag Museum of History.
Social volunteering is a broad concept that includes different types of voluntary assistance. Volunteers of the Social Volunteer Center of the Gulag Museum of History take care of people who suffered from Stalinist repressions. The project 'Psychology of Care' is an attempt to understand how to build a relationship between a volunteer and a ward, how to avoid emotional burnout and find ways out of difficult situations. The meeting was timed to coincide with the publication of the book 'Psychology of Care. Experience of the Social Volunteer Center of the Gulag Museum of History'.

Participants: Varvara Usanevich, Yuri Belanovsky, Larisa Guseva.
3 September 2020
13:45–14:30
How to build a publishing work in a museum
The story about the experience of building up publishing work in the museum, about new book series for a wide range of readers, about the prospects of book publishing in the museum.

Speaker: Galina Vladimirovna Lemigova
5 September 2020
12:45–13:30
Museum as a new space for happy childhood. Educational projects AZ Museum
This was a discussion about new opportunities of a modern museum in working with children's audiences and their parents. The authors of the educational project of the AZ Museum talked about the five-year experience of working with children in one of the most creative, young and dynamically developing museums of Moscow. We talked about creative developments and unusual master classes directly related to the museum projects, about new formats of communication with a children's audience and their parents in the modern realities.

Participants: Alexandra Volkova, Natalia Opaleva, Polina Lobachevskaya
5 September 2020
15:00–15:45
Meeting with the creators of the experimental laboratory 'Prints' of the Gulag Museum of History
The creative group of teenagers - participants of the 'Prints' laboratory, which opened the Gulag Museum of History in January 2020, studied the personal archives of the repressed, kept in the Museum. Based on the documents, they created their own three books: 'The History of Several Letters', 'A Piece of Soap', 'We Also Liked to Dance…'. The project is unexpected and in some way risky: to entrust young non-professionals to present museum material. But this was the idea of its creators - Maria Bronskaya and Natalia Markina.

Participants: Maria Bronskaya, Natalia Markina, Svetlana Pukhova.
4 September 2020
15:00–15:45
To mark the 60th anniversary of its opening. Andrey Rublyov Museum
History of the Andrei Rublev Museum collection, timed to the 60th anniversary of its opening (September 21, 1960). Recent years' additions (2004-2018).

Speaker: Svetlana Nikolaevna Lipatova
4 September 2020
16:15–17:00
How were inclusive programs created from scratch at the Andrey Rublyov Museum?
Inclusive programs in the Andrey Rublyov Museum. The experience of cooperation of the Museum with the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization 'Ferris wheel' and the Center for work with deaf and hearing-impaired people 'Desnitca'.
6 September 2020
13:00–13:45
'Dangerous times' and other museum stories from life in quarantine
A presentation of online activities of the Moscow Kremlin Museums at a remote location. A new site of Moscow Kremlin Museums with all online activities, lectures, excursions, etc.
4 September 2020
19:15–20:00
Architect Ivan Zholtovsky: two epochs in one biography
The lecture told us about an architect who started his professional career in the late 19th century and, in the middle of the 20th century, turned out to be a living classic and patriarch of the Soviet architectural school. His life story and creative heritage are still full of understatement and white spots. The lecturers shared stories about how, using materials from archive and museum collections, they managed to find out some details related to the initial period of I. Zholtovsky's career and some other episodes from his creative biography.
3 September 2020
13:45–14:30
Pioneers of Soviet modernism: new books on architecture from Kuchkovo Pole publishing house. 'Moscow Library' book series
Publishing house 'Kuchkovo Polje' presented its novelties. Authors and editors of books talked about the place of architectural creativity among great arts, about domestic architecture in the global context, about life and experience of the chamber-fourier of the Grand Kremlin Palace and all palaces in the Kremlin. Also the presentation of the book series 'Moscow Library', initiated by the oldest Moscow scholar V. B. Muravyov, was included in the program.
Exhibitions
2 September 2020
11:00–20:00
This year, for the first time in Russia, neither an artist nor a curator was awarded the Innovation Prize for his contribution to contemporary art. It was the publisher, Ad Marginem Press. The professional community recognized the importance of the role of books and publishers in the development of contemporary culture.

We asked the winner to put together a collection reflecting their opinion, what kind of book can be influential and claim to contribute to the development of art and other contemporary creative disciplines.

An important aspect of the selection was the design - the compliance of the appearance of the book with the visual codes of modernity. For the project LIBRARY Ad Marginem chose books of different publishing houses, decorated by domestic designers who are drawn to the use of typography on the covers and open to printing experiments.

The exposition includes books of Ad Marginem, Garage, Libra, No Kidding Press, V-A-C, Gaidar Publishing House, Novy Publishing House, Nosorog, Strelka.
virtual exhibition
Any museum is an airtight environment dedicated to one theme. The interior, exhibits, infrastructure, visitors and employees of one museum are noticeably different from any other - each museum has its face and history. Such a focused image becomes a fruitful theme for artists.

Painting in a museum does not mean only the depiction of the exhibits. For an artist this environment is also interesting as a complex: the nature of space, the scale of objects, light, color, smells, textures, characters - all this is closely related. This synesthetic integrity of the museum's image provides the basis not only for cursory sketches, but also for graphic series, comics and illustrated books. In addition to purely visual impressions in a museum, you always get new information, which can also become part of a graphic story.

For many years, Simple School has conducted drawing events in the museums of the city. We cooperated with the Tretyakov Gallery, Polytechnic and drew in many museums of Moscow, from the largest to the smallest. The exposition includes works by the school's teachers and students. This exhibition is another answer to the question: "Why do you need to go to museums?"

Dmitry Gorelyshev, art director of Simple School.
virtual exhibition
MIBF Museum Line presents a virtual exhibition of books published by the leading Russian museums in foreign languages

Museum Line has collected a selection of books published by Russian museums in foreign languages to draw attention of foreign partners, colleagues and readers to such publications. We hope that translation as one of mechanisms to attract the audience, and the study of the audience will be topics of next discussion.