Contemporary History Museum builds a «bridge» to tour operators
“A lot of interesting museums of
Moscow, visiting which might disclose Russian capital from another side and
might as well change the opinion about the city and citizens, “fall out” from
the visual field of tourists, including foreigners”, - considers the Deputy
Director of The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia Nadezhda
Tsareva. With these words she opened her presentation on excursion
possibilities of her museum for representatives of tour business, who receive
Russian and foreign tourists in
The Museum of Contemporary
History of Russia, the former
The seminar took place in the preserved
interiors of the library of the English Club. This was the function of the
museum’s building until the revolution of 1917. The audience, almost 30
representatives of travel agencies were shown the main plots of the Museum’s
excursion programs both in the halls of
At the meeting it came to MICE-possibilities of the museum’s ground. Mrs. Tsareva clarified that there are three halls holding business and ceremonial events, the largest of which can accommodate about 100-130 people. “The practice showed that people would more likely hold their meetings in historic interiors”, - noted the Deputy Director of the Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia. The only disadvantage that was named by the museum staff was that temporary there is no food spot, but there’s hope that a cafe which is now closed will open in the nearest future.
A real gift for the tour operators was visiting the Chocolate & Cacao exhibition. Its curator Evgeny Trostentsov not only explained about the production technologies of this delicacy, but also treated everyone with freshly prepared chocolate. Here on the special machine and with the help of experienced chocolate makers, those who wished could make a chocolate bar with their own hands. This possibility is offered to every visitor of the exhibition. The sweet exposition is opened in the museum untill the end of the year, in future it’s planned to make it permanent.
Summarizing the meeting, the
representatives of the travel business noted that the Museum of Contemporary
History of Russia successfully combines everything that is mostly in-demand
among the guests of the capital: the memory of the Soviet heritage and the
existence of the so-called manufacture. The Manager of the Mir Company,
Anastasia Polyakova stressed out that foreign guests with special pleasure
immerse in the times of