“Exhibition “Brother Ivan.
Collections of Mikhail and Ivan Morozov” entered the top 5 most visited exhibitions of the Pushkin Museum over the past 50 years.
The success is evidenced not only by the numbers, but also by the fact that many visitors returned to the exhibition for the second and third time, and in the last days of the exhibition they specially came to “say goodbye” to it,” Zhuchkova noted.
At the same time, she called the exhibition Mummies of Ancient Egypt.
The Art of Immortality.
According to the representative of the museum, this exposition has become the most popular among the family audience.
“Typical for this exhibition was the situation when several generations of the same family came to the museum together,” Zhuchkova added.
Speaking about the most popular excursions, the head of the department for working with visitors to the Pushkin Museum im.
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Pushkina told RT that the thematic excursions "Ancient Egypt", "Ancient Greece" and "Ancient World" can be called the most popular among school groups.
“Tourists, in turn, prefer sightseeing tours that are suitable for the first acquaintance with the museum’s collection, and local residents especially like to visit the halls of the Italian and Northern Renaissance and, of course, the halls with impressionists,” Zhuchkova specified.
She also shared with RT data on which of the museum visitors can be called the most frequent guests.
“Traditionally, the main audience of our museum are local residents.
As, probably, in any museum of fine arts that has a stable permanent audience, the majority of visitors are women,” Zhuchkova said.
If you look at the public as a whole, then an approximate picture will look like this: adults aged 25 to 59 years old make up 56% of the museum's audience, 60 years old and older - 22%, young people from 18 to 24 years old - 12%, and children under 18 years - 10%.
Earlier it was reported that the exhibition of Boris Kustodiev "Merchant's Rus'" will open on December 15 at the museum-reserve "Muranovo Estate".