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Big Cartoon Festival
from October 27 to November 6
20 venues in Moscow: Moscow Cinema chain, KARO 11 October, Documentary Film Center, cinemas, Pioneer, ZIL Cultural Center and others

For 12 days, guests will be shown 50 unique cartoon programs and 400 cartoons from around the world. Free cartoon screenings will also be available at Cultural Centres, libraries, parks and even post offices. The opening of the BFM will take place at the KARO cinema on October 11, and the Award Ceremony and the end of the Festival at the Kosmos cinema. The BMF will also host a Cartoon Network exhibition dedicated to the famous TV series Adventure Time.

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Festival of Arts for Children "Big Break"
from October 28 to November 5
at different venues in Moscow

This time the festival will not be limited to theaters for children, but will present different types arts: literature, theatre, cinema, music, visual arts. Most of events are created at the intersection of genres: theater and visual technologies, exhibitions and master classes, performances and group games, concerts and storytelling, lectures and performances, etc. All week for festival venues master classes will be held. You can learn the techniques of ancient embroidery, draw comics or complete a quest around Zamoskvorechye.

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All-Russian Children's Book Festival
October 28, 29 and 30
Russian State Children's Library

This year the theme of the festival will be the world of animals and nature protection. The exhibition-fair of children's books of more than 50 Russian publishing houses awaits guests. Three days will pass more than 100 events for all ages: meetings with writers, illustrators, workshops, interactive performances, films and cartoons.

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Mors Illustration Festival
October 27, 28 and 29
Artplay Design Center

From 27 to 29 October, the International Festival book illustration "Morse". Exhibitions of illustrators, lectures and meetings, master classes, reviews of works, a publishing and illustration market are waiting for guests. A separate program has been prepared for children. The exhibition of the festival will feature the work of 133 artists from different countries.

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Day of Culture of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
29th of October
children's city of masters "Masterslavl"
tickets: from 300 to 1190 rubles.

Guests can watch Czech cartoons, creative workshops on creating jewelry from clay and wooden dolls, cooking classes and tastings, as well as lectures on Czech and Slovak culture. You can get acquainted with mobile and board games of the Czech Republic and attend a concert of folk music and dances.

Festival of the Russian Geographical Society
from 3 to 12 November
CHA
for free

The holiday is dedicated to the peoples of Russia. For ten days, guests of the holiday will be able to get acquainted with the customs of their near and distant neighbors: look into the traditional dwellings of the peoples of Russia, learn the secrets of ancient craftsmen, listen to centuries-old legends, try on bright national costumes and much more. The festival will bring together ethnographers, travelers, traditional craftsmen, folk ensembles and ethnic fashion designers from all over the country.

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Exhibition "Sportland - the territory of childhood"
November 3rd to 6th
VDNH
tickets: free / from 350 rubles.

The exhibition will include sports workshops and competitions, e-sports tournaments, competitions among radio-controlled models, robot battles, strategic laser tag battles, a rope city, and much more. Each child will be able to try out new types of creativity for him, the territory of the exhibition will be divided into thematic zones.

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Wildlife Festival "Golden Turtle"
until November 5
Expocentre
tickets: 650 rub. adults, 350 rubles. schoolchildren, up to 5 years free

The festival will host the largest exhibition of professional photography wildlife Golden Turtle. Master classes and classes will be held for children, a photo zone with Smeshariki and a lecture hall from the Schrödinger's Cat magazine will work. Visitors will be able to complete an audio quest dedicated to nature conservation, visit a VR cinema, attend film screenings and meet with photographers.

MASTER CLASSES AND EXCURSIONS

cartoon factory
November 3rd to 6th
Cultural center ZIL
from 500 to 1500 rubles.

During four days at the Cartoon Factory, children and adults will be able to learn how to create cartoons using various animation techniques, get acquainted with the history of Russian and world animation, and gain experience in project and team work. Each route includes four master classes on various types of animation. For kids from 3 to 5 years old, there are two routes, for children and teenagers from 7 to 15 years old - four, each of which is dedicated to different topics: "Cinema", "Theatre", "Sound", "Illustration".

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Excursions for schoolchildren at the "Robostation"
from October 27 to November 6
Robot station at VDNKh
tickets: from 350 rubles per person

Children will have a fun and rewarding journey into the world of technical sciences on the topics of the professions of the future, artificial intelligence and neural networks. Robots from different countries, funny guides, scientific experiments, an area for creativity, games, constructors, puzzles and engineering puzzles.

Excursion-quest "Imagination Game"
​until November 5
Museum of Anatoly Zverev
tickets: from 1000 rubles.

The tour is built in the form of a dialogue-game, each child is given a kind of guide book, which contains both intellectual and graphic tasks. Participants will learn what an experiment in art is, how new forms arise, whether it is possible to paint a philosophical still life or create a portrait from a playing card.

Autumn creative laboratories ZIL
from 6 to 12 November
Cultural center ZIL
cost: 15000 rub.

During the autumn holidays, the ZIL Cultural Center for schoolchildren will host the creative laboratories “Stikho Step: Poetic Reconstruction” of the “Vzletka” and “Videoblog” classes of the integrated cultural education of the McGuffin Youth Film School.

Autumn city club InnoCamp
from October 30 to November 10
center of scientific discoveries "Innopark"
cost: 10000 rubles/5 days, 2500 rubles/day

During the autumn holidays, InnoCamp in Sokolniki Park invites children to five-day shifts. The program includes: creative and scientific workshops, active and board games, classes on fresh air. IN free time children get acquainted with the exposition of the InnoPark museum, reveal the secrets of phenomena and things, master the laws of physics, make experiments, experiment.

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Autumn workshops at Winzavod
from October 30 to November 5
Creative workshops for all ages
cost: from 350 rubles per hour

Children from 5 years old are invited to the classes. The workshops are open daily from 8:30 to 20:30. Children will make rowan bunches and autumn leaves from wool, sew brooches and funny felt toys, draw a bright autumn landscape with sponges, make lanterns with colored windows and bird feeders, paint candlesticks with stained glass paints, glue houses for gnomes, shoot a cartoon about dragons, cook soap and scented candles.

Workshops at the Green School
October 31
Gorky Park
tickets: 250 rub.

Interesting workshops work at the Green School on weekdays and weekends. On different days, you can attend sculpture classes, where they create sculptures of different animals with their own hands, carpentry or pottery workshops, ecology lessons or classes dedicated to botany.

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition Takashi Murakami "There will be gentle rain"
daily
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
tickets: 300 rub. adults, 100 rubles. schoolchildren, up to 10 years free

The first personal exhibition of Takashi Murakami in Russia consists of five chapters, sections, each of which is devoted to a particular phenomenon Japanese culture. As part of family days on weekends, the museum hosts creative workshops for children and adults, where each participant will learn new things about the everyday culture and holidays of modern Japan, traditional crafts and contemporary art, and will be able to create their own work. The teachers will introduce the youngest visitors to the characters and plots of Japanese fairy tales, while older children will find exciting thematic excursions from Takashi Murakami's exhibition "There Will Be Gentle Rain".

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Exhibition of works by Alexander Labas "October"
daily except Monday
Institute of Russian Realistic Art
tickets: 300 rubles, preferential - 150 rubles.

The exhibition of the cycle of graphic and pictorial works by Alexander Labas "October" is dedicated to the centenary of the Revolution of 1917. The exposition presents about 50 graphic and pictorial works - masterpieces from the collections Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum and Labas-Fonda. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of weekly lectures "Art-lunch" and public lectures.

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Exhibition "Dream Energy"
from November 3, daily, except Tuesday
State Historical Museum
tickets: 350 rubles, under 16 free of charge

A new exhibition at the museum was dedicated to the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. 12 sections of the exposition will occupy almost the entire space of the GIM Exhibition Complex. Visitors will be shown unique items created in the era of great hopes. There will be something to look at, some titles of the sections are worth a lot: “Friends and foes”, “USSR at a construction site”, “Wings of a dream”, “Campaign for culture”, indispensable: “A healthy mind in a healthy body”.

Multimedia exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci"
daily
Cultural Center ZIL
tickets: adults - 450/600 rubles, schoolchildren - 350/400 rubles, up to 7 years free

Guests of the exhibition will see such masterpieces as Madonna Benois, The Annunciation, Portrait of Ginevra Benchi, Adoration of the Magi, Madonna in the Rocks, Lady with an Ermine, Madonna Litta, Mona Lisa, etc. The multimedia project conveys the story of a genius in a bright and non-standard format, the paintings come to life before the eyes of visitors, revealing their hidden meaning inherent in each of them.

PERFORMANCES

Performances of the festival "See the music"
October 28, 31, November 1
DK "Rublyovo", the theater. N.Sats
tickets: from 150 rubles.

At the festival of musical theater performances "See Music" there will be several performances for children - some of them during the holidays. So, on October 28, a performance will be held at the Rublyovo Palace of Culture "Hello I'm your aunt!" theater "On Basmannaya" for spectators from 6 years old. In the musical theater N. Sats you can see the musicals of the children's theater "Karambol" from St. Petersburg: "Ugly duck"(October 31, 6+) and "Joseph and the Dreamcoat"(November 1, 12+).

Tour of the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater
From October 24 to October 31
Moscow Regional Puppet Theater
tickets: 750 rub.

In the Moscow Puppet Theater you can watch performances brought by the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater. From October 29 to October 31, a multimedia puppet show awaits viewers aged 5 and over. performance "Nonsense-ha-ha". Sessions are held at 11:00 and 16:00.

Performances at the Sphere Theater
October 28, November 3 and 5
Sphere Theatre, Hermitage Garden
tickets: from 500 rubles.

On October 28 and November 3, the theater will show a book by Ulf Stark for teenagers, and on November 5, the Sphere will host marathon performances about Prostodursen: "Prostodursen, the Marzipan Festival and the Great Spring Day", "Prostodursen, the Great Riverside Theater and the Golden Fish", "Prostodursen and the Great Stealing of the River".

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Circus show "The Little Prince"
October 29 and 31, November 1, 2, 4, 5
Circus of Miracles on Kuntsevskaya
tickets: from 450 rubles.

Spectators are waiting for a big show program dedicated to the star boy. Famous circus artists, acrobats, trained animals and really funny clowns take part in the performance. The production combines circus, multimedia, laser, sand, musical and interactive shows.

Show "Armored Bot: Robot Fights"
29th of October
SC "Olympic"
tickets: 400-5000 rubles.

Steel machines will meet in a spectacular battle in the new season of fighting robots "Armored Bot". Guests are waiting for three grandiose shows in one day. This year, robotics from the Netherlands, England and Belgium will also take part in the Russian tournament. Fair fights of robots will be evaluated according to several criteria: aggression, damage, strategy and control.

Welcome to an amazing show that can awaken in your child the desire to learn, achieve goals and dream! The interactive performance combined a performance, an informative lecture, spectacular and safe experiments, as well as a festive atmosphere. The audience will be completely immersed in what is happening, inspired by the examples of great Russian scientists and learn how to realize their dreams!

Show fairy tale "Hares" 0+

A colorful interactive performance, created together with the psychologists of the Successful Children project, is aimed at developing creative thinking among young viewers and their parents.

Animation Museum 0+

The museum is dedicated to the history of the creation and development of Soviet and modern Russian animation. In addition to puppet and cartoon characters, here you will see a real frame-by-frame camera, the Zootrop magic lamp, which can be used to display moving pictures, the first household projector, black layout drawings, authentic documents famous directors and other relics. At the master classes, children will be able to create their own cartoon or have a fun cartoon birthday.

Museum of Russian fairy tales "Once upon a time" 0+

This museum does not store rare publications and antiques, but kind and instructive tales that are passed down from generation to generation. The guides arrange theatrical performances, where the children learn about the life and culture of different peoples. Young guests dress up as fairy-tale characters and take a direct part in the development of plots magic stories, fight evil side by side with the main characters, solve riddles and puzzles.

Aquapark "Fantasy" 0+

A visit to the aqua zone in the family leisure center will allow you to improve your health and charge you with a good mood. Both children and adults will enjoy the exciting water attractions, wave pool and jacuzzi. You can refresh your strength after active games and entertainment in unusual cafe"Calypso", which is located on the deck of a real old ship.

Ribbon labyrinth "Möbius" 6+

The creators of the unusual labyrinth, answering the question about what inspired them when creating the project, say that even as a child they were fascinated by the famous Möbius strip. As conceived by the organizers of the attraction, a dense wall of ribbons should give visitors the illusion of the infinity of this bizarre space.

Center "Eureka-Park"

In the science and entertainment center, children will learn how cars and robots work, learn how to use a microscope and create pyrotechnic effects, learn the secrets of circus tricks and detective investigations, and create their own cartoon. At the master classes, young guests are given the opportunity to experiment to their heart's content.

Children's Music and Drama Theater "A - Ya" 0+

Unusual performances are staged in the theater that reveal topical issues of morality and human relations from the most unexpected sides, help overcome the “generational conflict” between parents and children, and better understand each other. Both young and adult viewers will find something to think about and discuss after the performance.

Museum of entertaining sciences "Experimentanium" 6+

If you want to introduce children to science and interest in the wonders of physics and chemistry, be sure to visit the Experimentanium Museum! Here you will be taught how to grow crystals and conduct exciting chemical experiments, talk about the unusual properties of electricity, mirrors and sound resonance. Programs of unusual scientific shows and master classes will be equally interesting for both children and parents.

Izmailovsky Kremlin

In the fairy-tale town, built in the old Russian style, there are exciting entertainments for the whole family. It will be interesting for mothers and daughters to visit the muse of dolls and sign up for a master class on sewing plush toys or making aromatic soap. Fathers and sons will be able to master blacksmithing or pottery. After the walk, you can have a delicious lunch at the Palace of Russian Meal.

Museum of nomadic culture
A place where geography lessons never get boring.

If your kids are into travel and adventure, it's time to take them to the Museum of Nomadic Culture. There you can stay in the real dwellings of the nomadic peoples of the world - in an Indian tipi, a Mongolian or Kyrgyz yurt, a Yakut yaranga, a Chukchi plague or a Bedouin tent. Visitors will try National dishes different peoples, learn to shoot from a bow, ride a horse and make ethnic souvenirs.

The Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue 0+

Performances of the Big Circus on Vernadsky Avenue combine the skills of artists with the latest achievements show technologies. The arena of the grandiose complex can turn into a swimming pool, an ice skating rink or a magical palace in a matter of minutes. Here you can see large-scale performances with the participation of the best masters of ancient extreme arts: fantastic illusions, acrobatic extravaganzas, performances of trained predators.

On the horizon are the traditional holidays that have returned to many schools. They will be held from October 29 to November 6. What to do with a child during a well-deserved weekend?

Traditionally, during the days of the autumn holidays, a number of large events are held, already loved by the children and parents. November 1st to 6th Every day (and then until November 20 on weekends) Moscow museums will host an exciting family trip "The whole family to the museum" . This year, 18 museums are waiting for children and parents, each of which has developed a game guide for one of three age-specific thematic routes: “Science is not a beech!” for children 5-7 years old, "Science is not boring!" for children 8-11 years old, "And genius, and experience, and chance ..." for teenagers 12-14 years old.
You can start your journey from any museum by purchasing a regular entrance ticket and getting a Passport and Traveler's Card, a Game Guide and advice from museum staff for free.
Not the first year within family travel running a parallel program. This year 26 museums and 3 libraries participate in it. The children are waiting for master classes, game excursions, quests, musical experiments, science shows and theatrical performances.
The tour runs on Saturdays and Sundays.
Dates: from 1 to 20 November 2016.

WITH October 29 to November 4 The Week of Games and Toys will be held at the Pioneer Palace on Vorobyovy Gory. The country of games, in which adults and children are invited, is a big world. Visitors are invited to become "indigenous" of its inhabitants, to know its beauty and diversity, to learn crafts, dances and songs, to look at the world of the game from the outside.
The guests of the holiday are waiting for novelties in the world of games and toys, folk games from all over Russia, fun games and attractions, entertaining scientific and educational programs, experiments, experiments, exciting master classes, a fair of original games and toys.
Family game program"Play city!" will give children the opportunity to play with their parents, and adults - to plunge into the world of childhood.
Time spending family program: from 15.00 to 18.00.
The event is free with invitation cards.

WITH 3 to 6 November one of the most anticipated vacation events by all boys and girls will take place at VDNKh - an interactive exhibition children's leisure And active rest"Sportland". As always, there will be a wide variety of venues where you can get acquainted with new sports and leisure activities; educational, board games, puzzles and mosaics, constructors.
More than 100 different games are presented in the game library; in the amusement park - a huge sector with inflatable trampolines; in the sports park - more than 35 sports; extreme park; creative workshops and non-stop concerts on the stage - all this awaits the guests of the exhibition.
Within the framework of the exhibition, open tournaments in mini-golf, darts, table hockey, table football, outdoor billiards and a combined relay race will be held.
The exhibition is open from 10.00 to 18.00.
The exhibition takes place in pavilion No. 69.
Ticket price: children - 500 rubles, adults - 300 rubles.

And what is childhood without favorite cartoons! Holidays are the perfect time to review what you already know and immerse yourself in new experiences. Moreover, with October 27 to November 7 Moscow will host the Big Animation Festival. As part of the festival, you can see the best of author's animation: Russian and foreign short films, cartoons and series for children, teenagers and adults.
Festival screenings are divided into four blocks. The main program presents new cinema from Russia and abroad. Here are the traditional blocks "Winners" and "Premiers", student animation and thematic programs. The "Children's" block contains programs that will be of interest to the whole family with new cartoons. In this block there will also be "Morning of series with cocoa and a bun" - a marathon of new episodes of animated series.
One of the central events for the festival will be the "Cartoon Factory" - a playground in the ZIL Cultural Center, where children can not only watch how cartoons are made, but also take part in their production.
The festival will open in the cinema "KARO 11 October"

By the way, during the autumn holidays, several premieres intended for family viewing will be released in Moscow cinemas at once:

• "Trolls" - the story of small restless men in big trouble.
• "Sinbad. Pirates of the Seven Storms" is about a cheerful but not very lucky pirate.
• "Aldabra. Journey to the mysterious island" - a film about animals inhabiting the Aldabra group of islands.
• "Rock Dog" is a new hero, and he goes to conquer the city of animals.
• The Great Dog Escape is a story about friendship, loyalty, courage and the ability to find the best in yourself.

  WITH 28 to 30 October all book lovers are invited to the Russian State Children's Library for the All-Russian Festival of Children's Books.
  The program of the event includes workshops on creating a book and illustrations for it, round tables, book and electronic presentations, creative workshops for beginner writers and artists, book and illustration exhibitions and a book fair from all over Russia.
  The program includes: interactive from the Zhili-byli Theater, the film "Crystal Key, or Once Upon a Time We Were", reading the book "Fair Boy", the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" from the "Theater.DOC", performance by the authors of the play "Verse Poem", the film "Private Pioneer 2" and the sequel - "Private Pioneer 3".
  Start at 10:00.
  Free admission.

  And at the ArtPlay Design Center from 4 to 6 November the Moscow festival of book illustration "Morse" will be held.
  Parents and children will get acquainted with the works of amazing artists. The works of illustrators from different countries, such as Italy, Spain, England, USA, Holland, Romania, Cuba, Latvia, Lithuania, Japan are presented. Festival venues: an exhibition of illustrations, a lecture hall, a library, a courtyard of master classes and a fair.
  Opening of sites at 10:00.
  Ticket price: 250 rubles; children under 7 years old - free of charge.

  Travel on interesting places city ​​is possible not only on weekends. For example, you can go to the museum-estate "Izmailovo" and take part in the game "Journey to Izmailovsky Island". You can walk the path on your own, with the help of a map and a guide with explanations and questions. All inquisitive and diligent travelers are waiting for unexpected discoveries, and after passing the route - gifts and diplomas.
  Tickets for the set of the game participant can be purchased at the box office of the exhibition "Izmailovo - the royal estate of the XVII century" on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 16:00.

  And you can also go in search of royal wisdom to the museum-estate "Kolomenskoye". The most famous saying, invented by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, is encrypted in museum exhibits. To guess it, visitors will need to explore the palace chambers on their own and complete the tasks of the unicorn - the guardian of the palace. At the end of the game, its participants will receive a gift.
  Tickets for the game-journey can be purchased at the box office located in the stone basement of the Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich near the entrance to the men's quarters near the cannons on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10.00 to 16.00.

  The State Darwin Museum invites children to "Walk the Path of Evolution". Its participants return to 3.5 billion years ago, and, answering questions, can follow the emergence and development of various kinds on the ground.
  Travel departure time: daily from 10:00 to 18:00, except Monday.
  Ticket price: adult - 70 rubles; preferential - 30 rubles.

  In addition, the museum has several interesting exhibitions:

• “The Cranes Are Flying” presents the brightest and most dissimilar species: the crowned, Canadian, Indian, Dahurian, Japanese, gray cranes, as well as the national pride of Russia - the Siberian Crane. Many of them are listed in the International Red Book.
• "All the Colors of Asia" is an exposition of artworks made in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
• "Alma Materia" with artifacts, sketches, photographs of the most memorable exhibitions of the artist L.V. Litvinova.
  Ticket entry to the museum.

  You can also get closer to scientific thought in the Biological Museum. Timiryazev - in the unique laboratory "Transparent Science". Here, dozens of scientific instruments, hundreds of entertaining exhibits and thousands of experiments are waiting for the children. So many interesting things are collected in one room that it is enough for a whole science museum.
  Here you can find out: how the cells of living organisms and the human body are arranged, where this or that color comes from in nature, whether plants breathe, how the integuments of animals are arranged, why we need skin, why hair turns gray, how joints work and much more. Visitors will find answers to these questions with the help of digital and optical microscopes, binoculars, interactive exhibits, such as a collapsible model of the structure of the human body, dynamic construction - a game about animal integument, a model of a plant stomata, a model of human skin, models of joints and the latest multimedia solutions.
  On weekends, any visitor can come to the laboratory.
  Ticket entry to the museum.

  Young geniuses will also like the science show of the "Smart Moscow" project, which can be visited during the holidays from 4 to 6 November .
  "Biological experiments" - interactive program in biology with real experiments from the arsenal of modern scientists in various fields - from microbiology to genetics. In one laboratory they will set up experiments on mice - they will check their learning ability and reaction to external stimuli. In another, fruit flies are waiting for participants - we will talk about genetics. In the third, they will master the skills of dissecting invertebrates - they will look from the inside at the crayfish and the beetle and find their common features. And there will definitely be microorganisms.
  Start at 12:00, 15:00 and 18:00.
  The ticket price for a child is 1750 rubles. Entrance is free for parents.

  Sokolniki Congress and Exhibition Center November 5 and 6 waiting for "technically savvy" guys. The Robotics Expo will be held here.
  Personal robots, industrial robotics, Drone Zone, 3D printing, consumer robotics, augmented and virtual reality and many other technical innovations will be presented to the eyes of the amazed public.
  Opening of sites at 10:00.
  Ticket price: adult - 800 rubles; children (4-12 years old) - 500 rubles.

  And in the shopping center "Afimall City" every day during the holidays you can get to the exhibition of robots and transformers. The exposition presents author's versions of famous blockbuster characters: Transformers, Pacific Rim, Real Steel, Wally, Judge Dredd and others; as well as cartoons, computer games and their own embodied ideas. All elements of the exhibits are handmade, conveying computer graphics in metal forms.
  The exhibits are impressive. At the same time, they are able to perform human movements. Some steel monsters can even talk to guests.
  Ticket price: adult - 300 rubles, children (under 14 years old) - 250 rubles, children under 4 years old - free of charge.

  The smallest Muscovites in school break you won't be bored either.
  WITH October 29 to November 6 in the museum of railway transport on Paveletskaya, Parovoziya will reopen its depot.
  On the territory of Parovoziya, an endless path of wooden rails, interchanges, switches, stations, bridges and tunnels, hundreds of trains and wagons are being built and rebuilt. There is a dedicated area for the little ones: tables with a ready-made road, tunnels and houses. Children are waiting for outdoor games and contests with prizes, a game library board games, master classes, mini-library. There is a railway buffet.
  Time of the game library: from 11:00 to 18:00.
  Ticket price: children: 1000 rubles - in weekdays, 1200 rubles - on weekends; accompanying adults and children under 2 years old - free of charge.

  Traditionally, theaters are carefully preparing for the autumn holidays. They will delight children and parents, first of all, with the premieres of this season:

• Puppet Theater "Firebird" will present a performance based on the works of Daniil Kharms "Plikh and Plyukh".
• Puppet Theatre. S.V. Obraztsova will remember "Hedgehog Summer", where the Hedgehog and the Bear Cub lived in a huge woolen ball.
• The Moscow Puppet Theater will show the performance "Frozen Tales", as well as 3 puppet performances of the Buryat puppet theater "Ulger" as part of the Days of Culture of Buryatia: "Stork and Scarecrow", "Singing Arrow" and "Baikal's Daughter".

The autumn school holidays are an ideal time to visit major museums and sights of the capital, for which it is problematic to find time for other days. How best to plan a whole week of vacation - in our itinerary.

Day 1. Zoo and planetarium

On the first day go to zoo, one of the oldest in Europe. It was opened in 1864 by the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants and was then called the Zoo. Now more than a thousand species of animals live here.

Plan a few hours to visit the zoo. It is better to plan a visit in the morning: this way you will be able to avoid crowds at the enclosures - and the children will be able to better see the zoo guests.

Before going to the zoo, be sure to check the feeding schedule on the official website moscowzoo.ru. So you can definitely see animals that often hide in secluded places during the daytime. Indeed, in nature, the main activity of most animals falls on twilight - morning and evening. During demonstration feedings, the animals are most active, so young visitors will have more chances to watch them. In addition, during feedings, zoo staff talk about the characteristics of a particular animal.

For lunch after a tiring journey through the animal world of different continents, go to Italian restaurant Bella Pasta(Krasnaya Presnya, 6/2, building 1).

Spend the afternoon hiking in planetarium located near the zoo. It will be interesting for both junior schoolchildren and high school students: the exposition in this scientific complex is arranged in such a way that everyone will find something to their liking. After observing meteorites, launching a hydrogen-powered rocket and sending a message to aliens, look into the Great Hall of Stars, where you can see the stars on the largest dome in Europe.

Day 2. Moscow Kremlin

Dedicate the second day of vacation to the main Moscow attraction - Kremlin. Walk along Cathedral Square, visit the Armory. Tickets should be bought in advance: their number is limited - and they run out quickly. Tickets are sold strictly for a certain time, so do not be late.

The Moscow Kremlin Museums have prepared several special programs for children. They are held two or three times a week. Among them are "Legends of the Middle Ages in the monuments of the Armory", "Russia in the Time of Troubles", "Peter I and his era", "Heroes of the myths of Ancient Greece in the monuments of the Armory" and others. Such routes are designed for schoolchildren 9-12 years old.

Visiting the museums of the Moscow Kremlin for children under 16 years old is free of charge.

And after - take a walk around the Kremlin. The sights of the capital, concentrated around the Kremlin wall, are collected in

You can sign up for them in advance on the websites of the Moscow House of Nationalities and the Moscow City Museum.

From October 28 to November 12, the guides of the Moscow House of Nationalities will conduct nine educational walks along central streets capital Cities. They will tell about the feat of Minin and Pozharsky during the capture of Moscow by the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in the Time of Troubles, about the life of the city during the invasion of Napoleon's troops during the War of 1812, and also about how the capital survived the October Revolution a hundred years ago. The cycle of excursions is called "Heroic Moscow".

The program for students was also prepared by the museum on the Moscow City observation deck, located on the 56th floor of the Empire complex. There, from October 30 to November 3, there will be five free excursions called High-Rise Moscow. They will tell about high-rises and skyscrapers in the architecture of the capital and present a panoramic view of the city from a height of 215 meters.

The duration of excursions on the streets will be two to three hours. Inspection of the exposition of the Moscow City Museum will take no more than an hour. It is worth signing up for non-free programs in advance on the websites of the Moscow House of Nationalities and the Moscow City Museum. One group will be able to include 20-30 tourists.

In October, the Moscow House of Nationalities will hold three educational walks in the center of the capital, and six in November.

“All the topics of our excursions may be familiar to schoolchildren from history lessons, or they just have to study them. In any case, for the guys, these are pages of textbooks and manuals. We want to show that the memory of those times is alive not only in books, but also on the streets of the city where they live now,” the press service of the Moscow House of Nationalities said.

October 28, Saturday, at 11:00, the tour "Fire Trap for Napoleon" will begin. Its participants will be told how the French emperor fled from the burning city, which happened on the streets near the Kremlin during the fire and the occupation of the city by French troops. The participants will be shown the secret passages used by Napoleon during the retreat, as well as the points of deployment of his army. Tourists will be guided along Red Square and around the Kremlin - along Varvarka, Ilyinka, Vasilyevsky Spusk, Manezhnaya Square and the Kremlin Embankment.

And on October 29, Sunday, at 11:00 am, the participants of the excursion “How Muscovites Saved the Capital” will walk between Myasnitskaya Street and Pokrovka. This area was multinational in the 19th century - Russians, Armenians, Germans, Ukrainians and French, who came to Russia before the Napoleonic wars, coexisted here. It is noteworthy that during the capture of Moscow by Napoleon, all the neighbors rallied and helped each other through hard times. The French who lived in this area did not go over to the side of the conquering emperor, but began to defend the city together with the native Muscovites. Tourists will be shown the house where Napoleon secretly lived. The walk will take place along the Kuznetsky Most, Solyanka and Sretenka, Krivokolenny, Armenian and Starosadsky lanes.

October 31, Tuesday, at 16:00 there will be a walk called " Memorable places Moscow in 1812 in literature and art. Participants will be guided along Barrikadnaya, Bolshaya Gruzinskaya and Povarskaya streets, they will see the mansions and churches that survived the fire of 1812, which were mentioned in the works of the classics of Russian literature, including the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

November 4, Saturday, at 11:00 you can get on the tour " A New Look to Nikolskaya. It will pass along Nikolka Street and its environs. It was along it that the detachments of the Second People's Militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky went to liberate the Kremlin from the Polish-Lithuanian invaders, and in 1917 Red Guard detachments were already marching along Nikolskaya to the Kremlin. On this walk, they will tell you why Nikolskaya Street was called October 25 for a long time.

The next day at 11:00, everyone will be able to make a trip called "Arbat in faces". The guides will tell you about the famous inhabitants of this street.

November 7, Tuesday, at 16:00, there will be an excursion “Muscovites in the battle for Russia. The first militia." The participants will be told about the events of 1610-1611, when the Poles appeared in the city. They will see the places where the invaders lived, learn about the life of the Muscovites of that time. excursion route will pass along Sretenka, Bolshaya Lubyanka and Varvarka streets, as well as along Novaya, Staraya and Slavyanskaya squares.

Citizens will be able to make a trip to the places of military battles during the Time of Troubles, learn new facts and details about the creation and history of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky during the walk “Light at the end of the tunnel. Liberation of Moscow. It will take place on November 10, Friday at 16:00. The excursion route will start at Slavyanskaya Square and end at St. Basil's Cathedral.

On November 11, Saturday, at 11:00, the excursion "Ancient Varvarka" will take place. The program will include showing the residence of English merchants in the city - the building of the Old English Court, where the British settled in the 16th century after obtaining the right to duty-free trade with Russia. Tourists will also be shown traces of bullets that have remained on the facades of some buildings since October 1917. Varvarka at that time became a place of fierce fighting.

On November 12, everyone will be guided along the route "Temple of Christ the Savior and surroundings." The cathedral was originally built in memory of the soldiers who died in Patriotic war 1812, and their names were inscribed on its walls. It was a collective cenotaph to the fallen soldiers - that is, a monument without burial. The architect was Konstantin Ton, a native of Russified Germans.

In the Moscow City Museum, five free tours, united by the theme "Moscow high-rise", will be held on October 30 from 17:00 to 18:00, and on October 31, November 1, 2 and 3 from 11:00 to 12:00.

On the 56th floor of the Empire skyscraper, guests will enjoy a panoramic view of Moscow. From a height of 215 meters, visitors can see solar panels on the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which are nicknamed "golden brains", they will see the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, two Stalinist skyscrapers - the building of Moscow State University and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Guests will be told how high-rise buildings were built in Moscow.

Visitors will not only be told, but also shown what the capital would be like if the horizontal skyscrapers of El Lissitzky or the Palace of Soviets by architect Boris Iofan were built. You can see unrealized architectural projects using the Parallel Reality multimedia object. This special mobile structure moves along the rails along the panoramic window. Depending on where it stops, those buildings appear on the screen, the construction of which was planned in these areas of the capital.

To order free tickets for a tour, you need to go to the website of the Moscow City Museum, go to the "Buy a ticket" section, select a convenient day, the desired ticket category and enter the promotional code "Moscow high". The number of tickets is limited maximum amount participants of one excursion - 30 people.

Traditionally in Moscow free tours take place during school holidays and city holidays. For example, in the summer, residents of the capital were able to visit 16 walking tours of areas associated with various religions and peoples, and on the eve of the City Day and during the celebration of the anniversary of Moscow excursions along the historical streets - Volkhonka, Varvarka, Myasnitskaya and Povarskaya.

Moscow schoolchildren are available free visit 90 city museums. They can come there at a convenient time with friends or relatives. Free access is provided by a social card, as well as a Moskvenok card or bracelet. Teachers of metropolitan schools can conduct extra-curricular lessons in city museums.