Where are we going with the children? Relax - so together! Where to go with children during the autumn school holidays
Big Cartoon Festival
from October 27 to November 6
20 venues in Moscow: the Moscow Cinema chain of cinemas, KARO 11 October, Documentary Film Center, cinemas, Pioneer, ZIL Cultural Center and others
Over 12 days, guests will be shown 50 unique cartoon programs and 400 cartoons from all over the world. Free cartoon screenings will also be available in cultural centers, libraries, parks and even post offices. The opening of the BFM will take place at the KARO 11 October cinema, and the Award Ceremony and the end of the Festival will take place at the Cosmos cinema. As part of the BMF, a Cartoon Network exhibition dedicated to the famous TV series Adventure Time will also open.
Arts Festival for Children “Big Break”
from October 28 to November 5
at different sites in Moscow
This time the festival will not be limited to theaters for children, but will present different types of art: literature, theater, cinema, music, visual arts. Most of the events are created at the intersection of genres: theater and visual technologies, exhibition and master class, performance and group play, concert and storytelling, lecture and performance, etc. Master classes will be held at the festival sites throughout the week. You can learn the techniques of ancient embroidery, draw comics, or complete a quest around Zamoskvorechye.
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 conservation. Guests will be treated to an exhibition-fair of children's books from more than 50 Russian publishing houses. Over three days, more than 100 events will be held for all ages: meetings with writers, illustrators, master classes, interactive performances, cinema and cartoon shows.
Festival of illustrations "Mors"
October 27, 28 and 29
Artplay Design Center
From October 27 to 29, the International Festival of Book Illustration “Mors” takes place. Guests can expect exhibitions of illustrators, lectures and meetings, master classes, exhibitions of works, a publishing and illustrator market. A separate program has been prepared for children. The festival exhibition will feature works by 133 artists from different countries.
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 will be treated to a screening of Czech cartoons, creative master classes on making jewelry from clay and wooden dolls, cooking classes and tastings, as well as lectures on Czech and Slovak culture. You can get acquainted with the outdoor and board games of the Czech Republic and attend a concert of folk music and dance.
Festival of the Russian Geographical Society
from 3 to 12 November
Central House of Artists
for free
The holiday is dedicated to the peoples of Russia. Over the course of ten days, guests of the holiday will be able to get acquainted with the customs of their near and far neighbors: look into the traditional dwellings of the peoples of Russia, learn the secrets of masters of ancient crafts, 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.
Exhibition “Sportland - the territory of childhood”
from 3 to 6 November
VDNH
tickets: free/from 350 rub.
The exhibition will include sports master classes 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 themselves in new forms of creativity; the exhibition area will be divided into thematic zones.
Wildlife Festival "Golden Turtle"
until November 5
Expocentre
tickets: 650 rub. adults, 350 rub. schoolchildren, under 5 years free
The festival will feature the largest exhibition of professional wildlife photography, Golden Turtl. There will be master classes and activities for children, a photo zone with “Smeshariki” and a lecture hall from the magazine “Schrödinger’s Cat”. Visitors will be able to complete an audio quest dedicated to nature conservation, visit a VR cinema, attend film screenings and meetings with photographers.
MASTER CLASSES AND EXCURSIONS
Cartoon Factory
from 3 to 6 November
Cultural center ZIL
from 500 to 1500 rub.
At the Cartoon Factory, children and adults will be able to learn how to create cartoons using various animation techniques over the course of four days, 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 children from 3 to 5 years old there are two routes, for children and adolescents from 7 to 15 years old - four, each of which is dedicated to different topics: “Cinema”, “Theater”, “Sound”, “Illustration”.
Excursions for schoolchildren to the “Robostation”
from October 27 to November 6
Robot station at VDNKh
tickets: from 350 rub./person.
Children will have a fun and useful journey into the world of technical sciences on the topics: professions of the future, artificial intelligence and neural networks. Robots from different countries, funny tour guides, scientific experiments, a creative area, games, construction sets, puzzles and engineering problems.
Excursion-quest “Game of Imagination”
until November 5
Museum of Anatoly Zverev
tickets: from 1000 rub.
The excursion is structured in the form of a dialogue-game; each child is given a unique guide book, which contains both intellectual and graphic tasks. Participants will learn what experimentation 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: 15,000 rub.
During the autumn holidays, the ZIL Cultural Center for schoolchildren will host creative laboratories “Poetry Step: Poetic Reconstruction” of the “Vzletka” and “Video Blog” classes of comprehensive cultural education of the McGuffin Youth Film School.
Autumn city club InnoCamp
from October 30 to November 10
scientific discovery center "Innopark"
cost: 10,000 rub./5 days, 2,500 rub./day
During the autumn holidays, InnoCamp in Sokolniki Park invites children to five-day shifts. The program includes creative and scientific master classes, active and board games, outdoor activities. In their free time, children get acquainted with the exhibition of the InnoPark museum, reveal the secrets of phenomena and things, master the laws of physics, carry out experiments, and experiment.
Autumn workshops at Winzavod
from October 30 to November 5
Creative workshops for all ages
cost: from 350 rub./hour
Children aged 5 years and older are invited to attend classes. Workshops are open daily from 8:30 to 20:30. Children will felt rowan bunches and autumn leaves from wool, sew brooches and funny toys from felt, paint a bright autumn landscape with sponges, make lanterns with colored windows and bird feeders, paint candlesticks with stained glass paints, glue houses for gnomes, make a cartoon about dragons, make soap and scented candles.
Workshops at the Green School
October 31
Gorky Park
tickets: 250 rub.
Interesting workshops are held at the Green School on weekdays and weekends. On different days you can attend sculpture classes, where you create sculptures of various animals with your own hands, a carpentry or pottery workshop, ecology lessons or classes on botany.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition by Takashi Murakami “There Will Be Gentle Rain”
daily
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
tickets: 300 rub. adults, 100 rub. schoolchildren, under 10 years free
Takashi Murakami's first personal exhibition in Russia consists of five chapter-sections, each of which is dedicated to a particular phenomenon of Japanese culture. As part of Family Days on weekends, the museum opens creative workshops for children and adults, where each participant will learn new things about the culture of everyday life and holidays of modern Japan, traditional crafts and contemporary art and will be able to create their own work. Teachers will introduce the youngest visitors to the characters and plots of Japanese fairy tales, while older children will enjoy exciting thematic excursions around Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “There Will Be Gentle Rain.”
Exhibition of works by Alexander Labas “October”
daily except Monday
Institute of Russian Realistic Art
tickets: 300 rubles, discounted tickets – 150 rubles.
The exhibition of the series of graphic and painting works by Alexander Labas “October” is dedicated to the centenary of the 1917 Revolution. The exhibition presents about 50 graphic and painting works - masterpieces from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the Labas Foundation. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of weekly “Art Lunch” lectures and public lectures.
Exhibition “Energy of Dreams”
from November 3, every day except Tuesday
State Historical Museum
tickets: 350 rub., under 16 years free
A new exhibition at the museum is dedicated to the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. 12 sections of the exhibition will occupy almost the entire space of the State Historical Museum Exhibition Complex. Visitors will be shown unique items created in an era of great hope. There will be something to look at, the titles of the sections alone are worth a lot: “Ours and Others”, “USSR at a Construction Site”, “Wings of Dreams”, “Camping for Culture”, the 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, under 7 years free
Guests of the exhibition will see such masterpieces as “Benois Madonna”, “Annunciation”, “Portrait of Ginevra Benci”, “Adoration of the Magi”, “Madonna of 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 the hidden meaning embedded in each of them.
PERFORMANCES
Performances of the festival “See the Music”
October 28, 31, November 1
Palace of Culture "Rublevo", theater named after. N.Sats
tickets: from 150 rub.
The festival of musical theater performances "Seeing the Music" will show several performances for children - some of them during the holidays. So, on October 28, a performance will be held at the Rublevo Palace of Culture "Hello I'm your aunt!" Theater "On Basmannaya" for spectators from 6 years old. In the musical theater named after. N. Sats you can see the musicals of the children's theater "Carambol" from St. Petersburg: "Ugly duck"(October 31, 6+) and "Joseph and the Dreamcoat"(November 1, 12+).
Tours of the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater
From October 24 to October 31
Moscow Regional Puppet Theater
tickets: 750 rub.
At the Moscow Puppet Theater you can watch performances brought by the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater. From October 29 to October 31, viewers aged 5 years and older will enjoy a multimedia puppet show play "Nonsense-ha-ha". Sessions take place at 11:00 and 16:00.
Performances at the Sphere Theater
October 28, November 3 and 5
Sfera Theater, Hermitage Garden
tickets: from 500 rub.
On October 28 and November 3, the theater will show Ulf Stark’s book for teenagers, and on November 5, the Sphere will host marathon of performances about Prostodursen: “Prostodursen, the Marzipan Festival and the Great Spring Day”, “Prostodursen, the Great Riverside Theater and the Goldfish”, “Prostodursen and the Great Theft of the River”.
Circus show "The Little Prince"
October 29 and 31, November 1, 2, 4, 5
Circus of Miracles on Kuntsevskaya
tickets: from 450 rub.
Spectators can expect a big show program dedicated to the star boy. The performance features famous circus performers, acrobats, trained animals and truly funny clowns. The production combines circus, multimedia, laser, sand, music and interactive shows.
Show "Armored Robot: Robot Fights"
29th of October
SC "Olympic"
tickets: 400-5000 rub.
Steel machines will collide in a spectacular battle in the new season of robot battles “Armorbot”. Guests will be treated to three grand shows in one day. This year, roboticists from Holland, England and Belgium will also take part in the Russian tournament. Fair robot battles will be assessed according to several criteria: aggression, damage, strategy and control.
On the eve of weekends, holidays, winter, autumn, all parents are worried about the question of where to go with their child. Many people make short trips to Moscow to introduce their children to the sights of our capital. Finding where to go with a child in Moscow is not so difficult; the capital offers an extensive list of interesting places. How not to get confused and choose from all the variety exactly what will be interesting to your child? In our article you will find a list of the most interesting places in Moscow that you can visit with the whole family.
Moskvarium at VDNH
Moskvarium is one of the largest oceanariums in Europe. The Moskvarium contains more than 7,000 marine inhabitants, including: several species of sharks, octopuses, starfish, stingrays, moray eels, colorful coral reef fish, urchin fish, freshwater fish, turtles, crocodile caimans. The pools contain the main artists - killer whales and dolphins. Moskvarium includes three large areas: an aquarium, a water stage, and a swimming center with dolphins.
Tickets:
- full day tariff (from 10.00 to 21.00) – 900 rubles. on weekdays, 1000 rub. from Friday to Sunday
- Tickets from 3 to 12 years old – 600 rubles. on weekdays, from Friday to Sunday – 800 rub.
- 2 adults + child (3-12 years old) from 10.00 to 21.00 - 2200 rub. on weekdays, from Friday to Sunday – 2400.
- 2 adults + 2 children (3-12 years old) from 10.00 to 21.00 - 2800 rub. on weekdays, from Friday to Sunday – 3200.
Operating mode: daily from 10.00 to 22.00 (entrance only until 21.00). The last Monday of every month is sanitary day.
Address: Moscow, Prospekt Mira, 119, building 23 (on the territory of VDNH).
Website: moskvarium.ru
Oceanarium and Exopark in the RIO shopping center
In this aquarium, visitors will be able to see fish from the shores of Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean, and wild animals from South America and Africa. The area of the Oceanarium is about 2500 m². Two large aquariums and the tunnels connecting them are home to large sharks, stingrays, groupers, and flexible moray eels. Tunnels made of transparent acrylic allow you to find yourself in the underwater kingdom and observe the life of the inhabitants of aquariums from the inside.
The Exopark covers an area of 3,500 sq.m. Its territory is home to about 300 inhabitants of hot savannahs, endless deserts and impenetrable tropical forests. More than 50 species of rare exotic representatives from different parts of our planet are presented here: colorful birds of paradise, reptiles, amphibians, predatory and herbivorous mammals live in special conditions as close as possible to their natural habitat. Among them there are rare animals that cannot be found in Russian zoos.
Tickets:
- Monday – Friday: adult – 500 rubles, children. – 250 rub.
- Saturday – Sunday: adult – 600 rubles, children. – 300 rub.
- Children under 5 years old are free. Children's ticket – from 5 to 14 years old.
Address: Moscow, shopping center "RIO" Dmitrovskoe sh., vl. 163.
Paleontological Museum named after Yu.A. Orlova
One of the largest natural history museums in the world, which houses four exhibition areas of the museum, including six halls. They consistently introduce ancient animals and plants into the mysterious world, from the most ancient to the modern.
Tickets: Full - 400 rub. Preferential (for pensioners, school and university students) - 200 rubles. Children under 6 years old, WWII participants, museum workers - free.
Operating mode: Monday-Tuesday is a day off. Wednesday-Sunday: from 10:00 to 18:00. The ticket office is open until 17:15
Address: Moscow, st. Profsoyuznaya, 123.
Website: www.paleo.ru
Space Museum
The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located very close to the VDNH and VBC metro stations. The museum building is located in the lower basement part of a large spire pointing upward - a monument called “To the Conquerors of Space”. The museum itself is one of the largest scientific and technical museums in the world. In the museum you can see an exhibition dedicated to the Mir station. Space lovers of all ages can look inside and explore all the details and life of the astronauts. The museum presents for study real samples of rockets and space modules, whole and cutaway, as well as personal belongings of designers and astronauts.
Tickets: Entrance ticket to the permanent exhibition for adults - 250 rubles, students, pensioners, children from 7 to 17 years old - 100 rubles, children under 6 years old - free. On the third Sunday of every month, admission is free for everyone.
Operating mode: daily, except Monday, from 10-00 to 19-00, on Thursdays - from 10-00 to 21-00. Monday is a day off.
Address: Moscow, VDNH metro station, Mira Avenue, 111
Website: kosmo-museum.ru
Moscow Planetarium
The Moscow Planetarium is one of the largest and oldest in the world, its area is 17 thousand square meters. The planetarium building includes several levels. On the lowest, underground level there is a small star hall designed to show children the starry sky in miniature), a 4D cinema, an interactive museum "Lunarium" - exhibitions on astronomy and physics. On the first level there is also an exhibition the Lunarium Museum, dedicated to the history of space exploration, as well as the halls of the Urania Museum, where visitors can get acquainted with the history of the Moscow planetarium. On the second level there is a large observatory, with the largest telescope in Moscow, accessible to the general public, the astronomical site "Sky Park", the hall of the Urania Museum with a collection of meteorites and historical Zeiss planetarium equipment. On the third level, directly under the dome - the Great Star Hall, a projector which allows you to see over 9 thousand celestial bodies and their movements across the sky over time.
Tickets: 550-650 rubles.
Operating mode: daily from 10:00 to 21:00, closed on Tuesday.
Address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya str., 5, building 1.
Website: planetarium-moscow.ru
Moscow Zoo
The Moscow Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in Europe and the fourth largest zoo in Russia after the zoos of Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don and Novosibirsk. It occupies an area of 21.4 hectares and houses about 5,000 animals of 1,132 species. The three parks are gradually being repaired and reconstructed, new pavilions and exhibitions are opening, the collection of animals is regularly replenished with new species.
Tickets: adults - 500 rub. Children under 17 years old inclusive - free of charge (from 14 years old you must present a passport).
Operating mode: from 7.30 to 18.00 (box office open until 17.00).
Address: Moscow, B. Gruzinskaya, 1
Website: moscowzoo.ru
Darwin Museum
Today it is the largest natural science museum in Europe. The exhibition of the Darwin Museum will tell about the history of the development of the theory of evolution, the diversity of life on Earth, variability and heredity, natural selection and the struggle for existence in nature. Here you can dive to a depth of 2500 meters in a bathyscaphe, weigh yourself in cats, mice, and bears on “live scales,” be frightened by moving models of dinosaurs and learn a lot of useful information about the origin of all living things.
Tickets: adult - 400 rubles, schoolchildren and students - 100 rubles, preschoolers (children under 7 years old) - free.
Operating mode: from 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays and the last Friday of the month. On Thursdays - from 13:00 to 21:00.
Address: Moscow, st. Vavilova, 57
Website: www.darwinmuseum.ru
Museum "Submarine" in the park "Northern Tushino"
This museum is dedicated to the history of the Russian Navy. Museum visitors can get acquainted with the internal structure of the Novosibirsk Komsomolets diesel submarine, stroll along the embankment and examine the Orlyonok ekranoplane and the SKAT landing assault boat, and test themselves as a pilot in a virtual piloting simulator. In addition, guests of the complex can ring the ship’s bell, sit in the navigator’s seat, and touch the most interesting exhibits with their hands. Additional lighting makes it easier to inspect hard-to-reach places where the engines and control mechanisms of the underwater ship are located.
Operating mode: daily from 11.00 to 19.00, except Monday. On Thursday from 13.00 to 21.00. The ticket office closes 30 minutes before the museum closes.
Address: Moscow, st. Svobody, 56
Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
The Old Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is one of the oldest circuses in Russia.
Tickets: from 500 rubles.
Address: Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard 13
Zoological Museum of Moscow State University
The Research Zoological Museum of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University is one of the largest natural history museums in Russia. In the museum you can see modern animals, except for the complete skeleton of a mammoth, which “greets” visitors at the stairs to the second floor. Also, guests will get acquainted with representatives of all groups of animals, from single-celled animals (mostly, of course, these are dummies) to birds and mammals.
Tickets: Schoolchildren, students and pensioners - 100 rubles, adults - 300 rubles, biolecture - 100 rubles. Free - children under 7 years old, employees and students of Moscow State University, preferential groups of citizens.
Operating mode: Tuesday - Sunday - from 10.00 to 18.00 (entrance until 17.00), Thursday - from 13.00 to 21.00 (entry until 20.00). Monday is a day off, the last Tuesday of the month is a sanitary day.
Address: Moscow, st. Svobody, 56
Website: zmmu.msu.ru
Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin
The Armory Chamber - a museum-treasury - is part of the Grand Kremlin Palace complex. It is located in a building built in 1851 by the architect Konstantin Ton. The basis of the museum collection consists of precious objects kept for centuries in the royal treasury and the patriarchal sacristy, made in the Kremlin workshops, and also received as gifts from foreign embassies. The Armory Chamber stores ancient state regalia, ceremonial royal clothing and coronation dress, vestments of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest collection of gold and silver items by Russian craftsmen, Western European artistic silver, monuments of weaponry, a collection of carriages, and items of ceremonial horse harness.
Tickets: 700 rubles, schoolchildren - free, students, pensioners (upon presentation of relevant documents) - 350 rubles. Tickets for sessions can be purchased: online on the museum’s website, except for discounted and free ones; on the day of the visit at the box office in the Alexander Garden from 9:30 to 16:30. From May 15 to September 30 from 9:00 to 16:30.
Operating mode: from 10:00 to 18:00 for sessions: 10:00, 12:00, 14:30, 16:30, except Thursday.
Address: Moscow Kremlin.
Children's World on Lubyanka
The building was built in 1957 in the very center of Moscow and at that time was considered the largest children's store in the USSR. Since 2005, the building has received the status of a cultural heritage site at the regional level. Children's World on Lubyanka is a popular place where both tourists from different parts of the country and local residents like to spend time. Guests can visit a cinema, a dinosaur show, numerous cafes, a robot show, a children's city of professions, an area with slot machines and much, much more. In addition, there is an observation deck located on the roof of the building, which offers views of the center of Moscow.
Address: Moscow, Teatralny pr-d, 5/1
Museum "Living Systems"
The interactive museum “Living Systems” is a unique platform where you can literally touch the most complex objects in nature, the structure of living systems. 130 interactive exhibits will let you understand and feel how all living things work. Moreover, you yourself will become the main object of study.
Tickets: children under 4 years old - free, from 4 to 16 years old - from 350 rubles, adults - from 450 rubles.
Operating mode: weekdays: from 9:30 to 19:00. Weekends and holidays: from 10:00 to 20:00.
Address: Moscow, metro Savelovskaya, Butyrskaya st., 46 panorama of the Battle of Borodino.
You shouldn’t be tormented by the question of where to go inexpensively with your child in Moscow in 2019, because recently a lot of different and!
Children's Moscow
If the budget is a little limited, numerous parks are an excellent choice, because Moscow is also a cultural pastime for children. But in the capital there are also expensive entertainments, which will cost half of your monthly income. So, where to go with a child in Moscow to make it good and fun?
1. Moscow Theater of Children's Books "The Magic Lamp"
This is a small theater in the center of the capital. Performances are staged here for children aged three years and older. The staff is sympathetic to various situations, so you can return your ticket even on the day of the performance.
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You can go to this wonderful park with your child in Moscow. There are attractions, bike paths, and you can go ice skating and skiing. Children are transported around the park by a bright train, there are also ducks and beautiful swans, and you can see butterflies.
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This planetarium is one of the largest in the world. It is better to go here with your child in Moscow, the age of the visitors does not matter, everyone will be interested here. It is better to set aside a whole day for such an excursion, because there is a lot of information and it is simply impossible to cover it in a short time.
4. Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
In Moscow, you can go to the Nikulin Circus with your child. The presented program will be of interest to young children and their parents. There is always an atmosphere of childhood here and even the older generation leaves the hall happy. You can also take a photo with animals.
5. Park of the Lenin State Farm "Lukomorye"
When choosing where to go with your child in Moscow, this is the best option, and it’s also free. State Farm Park named after Lenin "Lukomorye" Visitors of different ages will find something interesting for themselves. Due to the fact that the park is visited by many people, it is better to come early to avoid standing in lines later. Here they show performances, jump on a trampoline, and you can also climb a rope town and play in a pool with balls.
6. Indoor skating rink
Moscow invites children to try their hand at ice skating. Indoor ice quality is much better than in outdoor skating rinks, so skating here is a pleasure. There are many such skating rinks, but you shouldn’t think long about which one to go to, it’s better to choose the one that’s nearby.
7. Oceanarium on Dmitrovskoye Shosse
This is the largest oceanarium in Russia. This is where you need to go with your child in Moscow to see sharks, piranhas, penguins, everyone’s favorite fish “Dory” and many other underwater inhabitants.
8. Water park "Kva-Kva" Park
Moscow offers not only parks and theaters for children; you can relax “on the shore.” The water park has many slides, fountains and attractions. Some slides have restrictions, so there is a separate area for children.
9. KidZania Park
It will be interesting to go to Kidzania in Moscow with your child. This is a park where children can try their skills in different professions: doctor, cook, policeman. Here each child will receive a passport and will be given a salary for the work done. Then you can spend it on attractions or on “goodies”.
Here you can practice yoga with your child; listen to an interesting lecture or take part in creative master classes on creating interior items, accessories and toys; start painting from scratch or strengthen your skills; listen to a concert or watch a play with the whole family. Developmental classes for children are also held.
2. Trilingual Metland Kids Club
From 1.5 to 7 years
The club operates on the basis of the Metland English Language School. Here you can practice capoeira, combine work in an art studio with Spanish lessons, English lessons with music and Portuguese lessons with capoeira. The club also opened a group “English for Moms”. Club address
3. Mom's Sadik Seasons
From 0 to 6 years
An absolutely wonderful space for mothers with babies belongs to Seasons Project. Since 2014, the project has been located in a separate wooden house right on the playground of the Hermitage Garden. The Sadik hosts classes for mothers and babies, photo shoots, performances, concerts, and on weekends – children’s birthday parties and family parties in the spirit of Seasons magazine festivals. There is also a café and a hairdresser for children at Mama’s Sadik. Sadiq's address
4. CitYkids Family Center in the Bauman Garden
From 0 to 6 years
Creative workshops are open at CitYkids; you can come here for yoga or a children's play, a music lesson or a psychology seminar. During classes, the baby can be left under the supervision of a teacher in the company of peers. The center's schedule includes: yoga for newborns, music with mom, fairy tales, dancing, art therapy. And right next to the club there is an amazing playground “Inhabited Fence”. Address CityKids
5. Children's club "Shardam"
From 2.5 to 12 years
In the classes of Tatiana Krasnova's Creative Workshop, children from 2.5 years old are introduced to the basics of painting, graphics and design using handy tools, which will allow them to expand their own creative experience and understanding of fine art. Shardam address
6. Project “Concertini” (CONCERTiny)
From 1 month
The new project “Concertini” gives children their first acquaintance with the world of classical music. Mothers come here with babies. Professional musicians from famous Moscow orchestras and laureates of international competitions perform for the audience. The program is designed for the musical tastes of sophisticated adults and at the same time adapted for children's perception (from 0 years). During concerts, babies can lie on pillows, crawl, play and communicate with peers.
7. Project “Together with Mom”
From 1 month
This project is a “veteran” of the Moscow children’s movement; classical music concerts for mothers and babies have been organized here since 2009. Adults listen to music, and children dance and play tambourines and maracas with the musicians. Sitting quietly in your seats is not at all necessary. The project also conducts English classes, yoga, image master classes, joint summer holidays at the seaside or in the Moscow region, family discos, and a mother’s council. There are also courses for children together with their dads and a children's theater for the little ones.
8. Musical and educational project “SemiNotka”
From 2 to 12 years
The family project of the Turchin musicians is also well known to Moscow families. Nastya and Alexander come up with cycles of musical meetings and conduct them at different venues. These are not boring lectures, but a real creative interactive experience. Among the programs of “SevenNotes” are “His Majesty the Organ”, “Princess Violin and Her Family”, “Royal - both Forte and Piano” and others. A special series of classes “What does nature sing about?” for children from 2 to 6 years old, it is built around the four elements - water, fire, earth and wind. For children from 1 year old there is a cycle “Musical Years”.
9. Early development studio “Mozart effect”
From 1 year to 12 years
Another musical project for kids, where you can listen to classics. The project is already 12 years old. During classes in the studio, live classical music is performed by professional musicians and soloists of the best orchestras in Moscow. Children draw and sing, and also try their hand at playing children's instruments. Kids get acquainted with masterpieces of classical music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Vivaldi, Prokofiev and many others, and try to play along with the musicians on their own. Children from 4 years old need to pass an audition to enter the studio. Studio address
10. Babyconcert project
From 0 years
Children from birth to school age enjoy the melodies of Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Gershwin and other outstanding composers performed by the best musicians of Russia. Concerts take place in the “Sea Inside” cafe in Sokolniki, on the basis of the CityKids project and in other pleasant places in Moscow. The kids are not forced to sit still - at meetings, children dance and sing, walk freely around the hall and look closely at the instruments.
11. Jewish Cultural Center on Nikitskaya (JCC)
From 2 years
The ECC has many interesting studios for children and adults. Children from 2.5 years old can attend classes in the “Read-Play” literary club. Children's theater in English shows in the Center a series of interactive performances in English for children from 2 years old. There is also a wonderful development center “Tapuz”. You can bring your child for the whole day, here they will feed him, take him for a walk, and the baby will have many interesting activities: in-depth study of Russian, English and Hebrew, acquaintance with fairy tales and literature; choreography and music, solfeggio and rhythmics, yoga and fitness, ballet and choreography. ECC address
12. Baby Contact Club
From 3 months to 3 years
The club conducts dance classes for mothers, fathers, grandparents and children. The main goal of the classes is to establish contact between mother and baby. Through special techniques, close contact, elements of dance, dance movement therapy, round dances and games, mothers learn to better hear and understand their child. During classes, the baby is in your arms, in a sling, or just next to your mother. Club address
13. Children's space "Dvigalki"
From 0 to 5 years
A hall in the center of Moscow, specially equipped for movement, creativity and harmonious development of children. Children under 3 years old study together with their mothers. Classes are based on the principles of orf pedagogy and dance-movement psychotherapy. The youngest participants, aged 0 to 12 months, study in the BabyContact dance and movement psychological group, which is described above. Hall address
14. BrightFamily Positive Lifestyle Center
From 0 to 5 years
The main direction of the center’s work is the parenting practices of Birthlight (Birthlight™, UK, Cambridge), developed by the founder of Birthlight, Francoise Friedman, in the 80s of the last century. The course is based on a combination of Eastern wisdom and advanced Western scientific developments. BrightFamily presents the following areas of yoga: yoga for pregnant women, aqua yoga, baby yoga from birth to 4 years, children's swimming programs (from 1.5 months). Center address
15. Workshop “Little children and great art”
From 2 years
The workshop is run by Moscow sculptor and mother Lisa Lavinskaya. In a playful and exciting way, children get acquainted with the history of art, visit museum exhibitions, draw, sculpt, and do ceramics. Typically, classes begin with a short lecture on the history of art; for the little ones it can be a ten-minute fairy tale or a short cartoon. Children get acquainted with the works of artists from different times, and then create their own. The Workshop also offers a course for adults. Workshop address
16. Children's center "Golden Cockerel"
From 1.5 to 17 years
The Golden Cockerel children's center has been operating in Moscow since 1987. At the center, children from 1.5 to 17 years old can study in a comprehensive program that combines the basics of music, choreography, visual and theatrical arts. Classes are taught by professional musicians, directors, artists and choreographers. The Golden Cockerel Center cooperates with Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, Russian Institute of Cultural Studies and State Slavic Academy. Center address
17. Early development center in English Gymboree Play&Music
From 0 to 6 years
Children are taught here using the Gymboree early development method, which was invented more than 35 years ago. It is assumed that every child has the inclinations given to him by nature. If you start to develop them correctly and on time, abilities will appear. Today the company implements its training programs in 33 countries and in more than 700 centers operating under a franchise system. All classes at the center are held in English: “Play and Learn” from 0 to 3 years; Music (6 months - 6 years), Visual arts (18 months - 6 years); Sports (3-6 years); Family activities (0-6 years); School skills (3-6 years). Center address
18. Early language development club Baby Bilingual Club
From 1 year
Classes are taught only by native speakers and early development specialists. The main principle of the club’s work is active communication using the TPR (Total Physical Response) method, which implies that during classes students use all organs of perception and constantly change types of activities. Children learn English through games, music, creativity and reading or listening to books in English. The youngest (1.5-2 years old) come to lessons with their mothers. Club address
19. Family eco-club “Drevo”
From 9 months to 7 years
The club operates an Early Development School, where children get acquainted with the world around them, play with designer handmade toys and communicate with peers. Among the interesting programs it is worth mentioning the School of Etiquette and the School of Rescuers. The sports block is represented by the Krepysh fitness studio, rhythmoplasty and dance studio, yoga classes and self-defense lessons. In addition, the club has a children's playroom and a library with an extensive collection of children's literature.
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Ekaterina Morozova
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Today we will offer you ten ideas on how to spend the autumn holidays with a child in Moscow in an interesting way:
Visiting museums
Moscow has a very large number of museums that a child will visit with pleasure. During the school holidays on Saturday and Sunday, 20 museums in the capital run the “Take the Whole Family to the Museum” program.
As part of this program, children and adults are offered excursions along three routes:
- Seven museums(Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Museum named after N.A. Ostrovsky “Overcoming”, A.S. Aushkin Memorial Apartment on Arbat, Museum of the History of Lefortov, Zurab Tsareteli Gallery) offer a game route for children aged 5-7 years under the title “An Outlandish Story in Seven Parts”;
- Six museums(Geological Museum named after V.I. Vernadsky, Kuskovo estate of the 18th century, Moscow Defense Museum, A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum, N.V. Gogol House memorial museum, historical and architectural complex "Proviansky Shops") developed the program for children from 8 to 11 years old called “Museum of Strangeness”;
- Seven museums(State Museum named after V.V. Mayakovsky, MGOMZ "Kolomenskoye", Sakharov Center, Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Museum complex "History of the T-34 Tank", Biological Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev, Art Gallery of Ilya Glazunov) organized the program for teenagers from 12 to 14 years old under the title “About Freedom”.
You can start your family trip from any museum by purchasing an entrance ticket and receiving a Traveler’s Card and Passport, consultation with a museum employee and a Game Guide.
Trip to the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve
There is a bison nursery in this reserve, where you can show your child these rare animals that survived mammoths. There is also an excellent excursion program here. So you won’t be bored in the reserve. The Prioksko-Terassny Nature Reserve is open to the public seven days a week throughout the year.
Trip to a moose farm
If your child is a young naturalist, then he will definitely enjoy visiting the elk farm, which is located in the Kostroma region. These proud animals roam freely around the farm. Moose are not afraid of people, so you can easily feed them gingerbread, bread or candy.
The farm owners require visitors to follow several safety rules: do not run, do not shout, and most importantly, do not be afraid.
Cartoon Festival
During the autumn holidays from October 26 to November 6, the “Big Cartoon Festival” will be held in Moscow. More than 400 animated films will take part in this festival. This year the cartoon festival is dedicated to a significant date, the centenary of Russian animation. Vladislav Starevich presented the first cartoon “Beautiful Lyukanida” to the general public exactly a century ago.
In addition to film screenings, during the festival there will be an educational project “Cartoon Factory” and various animation exhibitions, including the professional exhibition-school “PRO-animation”.
Week of games and toys
On the Sparrow Hills in the Moscow Palace of Pioneers, from November 5 to 11, the annual festival “Games and Toys Week” will be held.
The event program is not intended for children of primary and secondary school age. At the festival, children will be able to learn how toys are made and learn how to make them themselves. There will also be a room dedicated to active games and attractions, where children will get acquainted with physical and educational games.
Exhibition "Sportland"
From November 1 to 5, the All-Russian Exhibition Center is holding the Interactive Exhibition of Active Recreation and Leisure for Children “Sportland”. Here you can not only look at the latest achievements in the gaming industry, but also test them in action. And the bravest ones will be able to master the basics of historical fencing or practice a new type of fitness “Kangoo jumping”.
Every day, various master classes, demonstration performances, demonstrations of the latest types of outdoor activities, competitions and quizzes will be held for exhibition guests. This event is a fun time for the whole family.
Circus of Dancing Fountains
During the school holidays, the Circus of Dancing Fountains presents a new show program called “Magic Dreams”. Guests can expect an extravaganza of fountains, colorful circus acts, trained animals, magic illusions, funny clowns, and masterly dances.
An unforgettable carnival with games, surprises and entertainment will be held for guests in the circus lobby, with free photos with a ticket and ice cream. Entertainment in the lobby begins one and a half hours before the performance. The whole family can have an interesting and fun time at the circus.
Going to the Zoo
If your child loves nature and is interested in studying fauna, organize a trip to the zoo for him.
The Moscow Zoo is a unique place, one of the northernmost zoos in the world. Here you can show your child representatives of the animal world from all continents. In total, the zoo is home to about 3,700 individuals. This zoological park has created a favorable atmosphere for each species of animal, which promotes their breeding.
The zoo is open from 10 to 18. Monday - closed
Amusement Park named after. Gorky
If your child loves active recreation, then the Divo Island amusement park is the place for him. This amusement park is not inferior in technical equipment to American and European parks. The brave ones will find the most extreme attractions in the world here. For children, the park has built a whole city of entertainment with bright carousels, several playgrounds, funny clowns, educational games and competitions. Science-fiction lovers will be delighted by the interactive Star Wars attraction and indoor entertainment complex.
Dolphinarium
A fascinating performance with the participation of dolphins and other sea animals will delight every child. Dolphinarium artists dance, sing, perform jumps and amazing tricks. The schedule of performances of the Utrish Dolphinarium can be found on the website or by phone. The entertainment program lasts about 45 minutes. After the show is over, you can take photos or even swim with the dolphins.
In general, there are a lot of options for organizing exciting holidays for your child. All that remains is to decide which of them will appeal to your child and you.
If you have interesting ideas on where to go with your child on vacation, share your experience with us!