More than 140 museums, galleries, libraries, exhibition and concert halls will open their doors to visitors. Each museum has prepared a special program: new exhibitions, concerts, performances, non-standard excursions and master classes, historical reconstructions and competitions.

The main part of the venues will receive guests on May 17 from 18:00 to 23:00, and 29 of them will continue to work until 6:00 on May 18. Special buses will run between the participating museums in St. Petersburg from 23:00. Any Museum Nights ticket holder will be able to use them for free.

Admission is free!

On this day, the Moscow Market officially opens the summer season with the family sports festival “Go Outside”: with yard games, a musical performance and free badminton training sessions.

The program of the festival:

1) From 12:00 to 16:00, professional coaches will teach guests how to play badminton;

2) From 12:00 to 18:00, visitors will be able to return to their childhood and play the most popular yard games: “hide and seek”, “bouncers”, “robber Cossacks”, “tag”, etc.

3) At 17:30, a musical performance will be held for the participants of the “Choir for the Whole Yard” festival, which will turn the territory of the entire Moscow market into a concert venue.

In St. Petersburg, you can visit the Pushkin Memorial Apartment Museum and the Pushkin Museum for free. Life and creativity”. A festive program will be held in the courtyard. In the city of Pushkin, free admission to the Memorial Lyceum Museum and the Pushkin Memorial Cottage Museum will be available.

Memorial Apartment Museum and the Pushkin Museum. Life and creativity”: St. Petersburg, Moika River Embankment 12.

Memorial Museum apartment: Pushkin, Sadovaya St., 2

Memorial Cottage Museum: Pushkin, Pushkinskaya str., 2