November 9 – December 18, 2011
The sound of Raykin voice fills the halls and tells about his life and about people which he met. Two rooms represent bipolar nature of the exhibition. Actor's private life and his scenic work are the two parts combined in the exhibition space: the first was presented by the key episodes of his biography which influenced his creative work while the second shows his characters.More...
October 29 – November 21, 2011
Honoured artist of Russia, holder of all main national theatre awards including “The Golden Mask” Muscovite stage designer and producer Pavel Kaplevich presents an exhibition of tapestries of his make, “My own”.
He experiments in the fields of cinema, TV, fashion and even advertising, his genre diapason including art-house, classical opera, avant-garde theatricals and many others.
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June 22 – August 28, 2011
This multimedia exhibition prepared in co-operation with Diana Vishneva Foundation lets the audience behind the scenes re-creating the unique atmosphere: soft lights of make-up room, photos and videos of the famous dancer and her scenic costumes. More...
May 26 – June 25, 2011
Sheremetev palace (The House of Music) presents gems and jewelery created by the best goldsmiths from “Anna Nova” house and the great jeweler Karl Fabergé, from Museum Fabergé, Baden-Baden, the famous Easter “Imperial” egg of Karelian birch by Heirik Wingstrom (1917) given by Nicholas II to the Empress Maria Feodorovna among the exhibits.
Since its foundation in 2004 one of the specialties of “Anna Nova” house was creation of «Objets de fantasie», sophisticated miniatures of gem and precious metal. This kind of “trifles” has a long history in Europe as well as in Russia, where Fabergé was the best. “Anna Nova” strives to develop this tradition in its whole. More...
May 20 – July 27, 2011
St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music in co-operation with the Ministry of Culture (RT), the State Museum of Fine Arts (RT) and the Tatar Cultural Autonomy (St Petersburg) presents this project as a part of the wide celebration program of Tukay's anniversary.
The exhibition presents the audience “the golden fund” of the graphic art of Tatarstan, more than 60 illustrations to the most famous works by Tukay created by five outstanding Tatar artists in 20th century: Baki Urmanche, Bainazar Almenov, Faizrakhman Aminov, Irina Kolmogortseva and Nadir Al'meyev. More...
May 6 — June 6, 2011
The exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding director Nikolay Akimov, the head of the Comedy theatre, one of the most famous companies in USSR in 1930—1960s,. A number of Akimov's works from collections of Moscow and St Petersburg is put on display for the first time. Akimov contributed both to theatre and cinema as director and designer. His creative ideas are still actual in the contemporary theatre mixing genres, styles and epochs. Akimov's stagings and films has become the symbol of this city.
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March 25, 2011
6 Ostrovsky Sq.
«Theatric life in St Petersburg in 19th century» tells about the times when the local scenic tradition begun and national repertoire and artistic school was created. The exhibition presents a number of rarities from the museum collection, which remind us about the first productions of «A Life for the Tsar» by Glinka, «The Government Inspector» by Gogol, Griboyedov’s «Woe from Wit» and «The Mermaid» by Dargomyzhski, operas by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov and plays by Ostrovsky, Leo Tolstoy and Sukhovo-Kobylin. More...
 February 26 – May 26, 2011
Rimsky-Korsakov Museum –
branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
«The Snow Maiden» has a special place among the other operas by Rimsky-Korsakov: he himself considered that score the best of his theatric works and that «he has felt himself the mature musician and opera composer» when he was working on that piece. The exhibition dedicated to «The Snow Maiden» opens series of projects presenting operatic works by Rimsky-Korsakov and the rich collection of the Museum of Theatre and Music will help to pay deserved attention to each of his operas. More...
February 19 – April 3, 2011
6 Ostrovsky Sq.
The exhibition organized on VTB Development Company initiative was developed and prepared by St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music in co-operation with the artist B. Beider, the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum and the State Museum of History of St Petersburg.More...
Museum’s Main Building, 6 Ostrovsky Sq.
October 27 — December 8, 2010
October 25, 3 p.m. - press-conference
Public opening of the exhibition: October 27
The Museum has chosen a unique topic from the rich scenic history of Chekhov’s plays, it tells about a theatre which is still actual and full of life, which excites the audience today.
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(to the 80th anniversary)
September 30 – December 10, 2010
(Sheremetev Palace – branch of the Museum (Fontanka emb., 34)
Press release
Press conference will take place in Sheremetev Palace, September 29, 2010 at 3 p.m.
Vernisage on September29, 4 p.m.
The exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the composer aimed to present not only his creative activities in theatre, cinema and variety art but also to explore details of his biography: family customs, personal likings, relationships between relatives.
Andrey Petrov decided to become a composer after watching to “The Great Waltz”, a film about Johann Strauss: “Its lies about the composer’s profession were so tempting! A bird sang and a waltz came to being, a postman’s horn blew its note and a symphony appeared! Plenty of flowers and beautiful ladies, and the whole Vienna sing and dance. So be it! I must become a composer» – remembered Petrov.
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Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
July 10 — September 12, 2010
In the bounds of the Cross Year of France and Russia
Committee of Culture, Government of St Petersburg
St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
Centre National du Costume de Scène à Moulins, France
Institut Français, St Petersburg
L’agence CulturesFrance
Curators of the Cross Year of France and Russia:
From the Russian side: Ministry of International Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of the Economic Development, Ministry of Education and Science, General Embassy of Russian Federation in France. President of the National Committee: Sergey Naryshkin
Coordinator of the Cross Year: Mikhail Shvydkoy
From the French side: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Emploi, Ministere de l’Éducation Nationale, Ministère de l’Éducation et de la Science, Ministère de la Santé et des Sports, Embassy of France in Russian Federation and l’Agence CulturesFrance
Head of the National Committee: Louis Schweitzer
Commissar-General: Nicolas Chibaeff
This ambitious international exhibition project focused on Nureyev’s personality, the most mesmerizing figure to appear at the world ballet scene in the second part of 20 century, is symbolic for St Petersburg. Here the young dancer started his career and had left the city for good in 1961 for the world scene being already internationally famous. Although Nureyev was all for Russian ballet school he stayed inaccessible for those worshipped his talent in this country. This exhibition becomes the very first occasion to tell in detail about Nureyev’s international career in his native country.
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Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
(34 Fontanka embankment, ticket-office +7 812 272 44 41)
June 4 — August 1, 2010
 Sheremetev Palace is glad to present unique costumes from the 1960s collected by stage designer and historian of the fashion Alexander Vasiliev. A number of rare dresses haute couture from the period created by the most famous designers such as Chanel, Dior, Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Nina Ricci, Cardin, Courrege, Laroche, Cassini, Galitzine were chosen for the exhibition. Most of the exhibits come from France yet one can see also the best samples from Italy, England and America.
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To the centennial of the great dancer
Museum’s main building
(6 Ostrovsky Sq. Ticket office: 571 21 95)
May 18 — July 19, 2010
Sergey Prokofiev named her «the Genius of Russian Ballet, its elusive soul, its inspired poetry», Nikolay Benois — «Rafael with soul of Michelangelo», Alexey Tolstoy — «the Ordinary Goddess», Fedor Lopukhov — «Mona Lisa with her enigmatic yet very feminine half-smile».
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The museum initiates a new project «The Open Collections» (2B Graftio St., Petrogradskaya metro station) that gives our guests the unique chance to see the museum holdings and rare collection items and to come closer to the modern museum storage technologies.
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The F. I. Chaliapin Museum in his former apartments is open on April 14, 2010 after two year period of reconstruction (2B Graftio St., Petrogradskaya metro station, phone 234 10 56).
The museum presents «An exhibition of the unique portrait», the portrait of Shalyapin by B. Grigoriev.
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"Chekhoviana by Lev Dodin"
