Museum Thursdays across Moscow all Academic Year Round

The 'Open University' project, at the Higher School of Economics is organizing lectures in Moscow museums, following on from the series of free lectures given by HSE professors throughout the summer in Gorky Park. Lectures in museums will be held each Thursday starting from September 26.

‘HSE is a city university’, said Valeria Kasamara, HSE Director for Corporate Projects and Curator of ‘Museum Thursdays’, ‘With our Moscow projects we want to form an emotional and intellectual city environment which we ourselves feel comfortable  living in’.

Both popular and not so well-known (sometimes undeservedly) Moscow museums are welcoming HSE lecturers. Visitors can look at the exhibits, and listen to lectures on topics related to the nature of the museum.

‘Museum Thursdays’ will open with a lecture from Alexey Maslov, Head of the HSE School of Asian Studies who will talk about European influence and Chinese nationalism.

The director of the Museum of Literature, Dmitri Bak considers these lectures to be a ‘sign of the times, as we see a cross-over of notional boundaries and there is clearly a wide public desire to engage in intellectual discussions’.

Altogether there will be 30 lectures in museums during the academic year.

The first will be on September 26, 2013, in the State Museum of Oriental Art. Address: 119019 Moscow, Nikitskij Boulevard, 12a. Tel. +7(495) 691-0212.

Start time: 6.30 p.m.

http://www.orientmuseum.ru/en/index.aspx