How to go to museums and not to die of boredom

Choose an interesting museum you

If you are new to visiting museums, you start with interesting exhibits. One comes to the delight of exhibitions of contemporary artists, the other is able to spend hours walking between the showcases with the bones of dinosaurs, and third models like the look of the city in different epochs.

If you never went to exhibitions and do not really understand what you might like, there are alternative ways to choose.

Xenia Pelevin

Historian and art critic.

You can select museums and exhibitions to the type of your perception. Visuals suit traditional picture, audialam - exposure with sound kinestetik - interactive art spaces by full immersion. So you can help the brain to perceive the new information in a format convenient for him.

Take care of the comfort

Even if you are very fond of museums, a pebble in the shoe is able to transform inspection exposure to hell. Therefore, keep in mind a few things:

1. Choose comfortable clothes and shoes, to the discomfort did not distract from the show.
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2. Find out in advance at the museum's website, whether you can carry in the hall water (In art galleries often impossible). If so, bring a small bottle.
3. Snack before visiting the exhibition, not to think about food all the time.
4. Try to buy a ticket online, so as not to stand in line at the entrance.
5. If possible, choose a time when there are so many people in the museum. Obviously, the middle of the day is not the best option in high season, if you feel uncomfortable in a crowd. Determine when the museum most people, help «Google Maps." To do this, view the information about the object.

Prepare

Read about the museum and the exhibits on site facilities. There you can often see on its virtual halls. So you will understand what to expect and what you need to prepare in advance.

You may choose several rooms or especially interesting paintings and decide to check out more about them, to inspect already competently.

Nina Buyanova

Telegram-channel writer on history and cultural values ​​of "living in the past."

People find museums boring, because I do not know how to use them. They want circuses where they are offered bread, with maslitse with you, dear guests. Accident waiting for science museums and interactive show, even those who fall into the category 6+.

To visit the exhibition must be prepared, that's when you can get high on the good kinds of garbage hills potsherds. When undertake to read a book, you give yourself time, dive and focus. You do not start from the end, standing at the scene on the Rammstein concert. You do not jump through the pages and see only the pictures, if you do not already detsadovets. Do you follow the thought of the author and subject.

And when ready, when immersed in a small meditation time parted and you will see that nobody will talk about anything you through it. Such is the harsh reality: the higher the level of intelligence of the individual, the more complex types of pleasures are available to him.

Do not put impossible tasks

In the campaign of the main museums - a process, not result. No need to try to see all the exhibits at a time. It is often impossible. For example, if you stay at least for a minute in each painting in the Hermitage, then to inspect the exposition it will take several years. It is better to focus on what catches your attention, and try to learn more exhibit.

Anna Polyakova

Artist and Fine Arts Volunteer State Museum named after A. FROM. Pushkin.

Most importantly, what it is worth remembering: you do not have to like all the paintings. Very often people get tired while visiting museums because they are trying to cover all the information. There is nothing wrong if you are not interested in some work. In art, you need to follow that inspiration.

Just walk through the museum and detain only those pictures that attract your attention. Ask yourself questions. What attracts the picture? Who wrote it? When? Who or what inspires artists?

Work information

For any exhibit important history and context. Items from the museum of local lore belong to a specific age and territory. A picture of the artist writes with a certain biography. Even standing next to a stuffed animal in a zoological museum, you can learn a lot.

Here are some ways to get information:

1. Read the accompanying signs. They hang next to exhibits specifically for it.
2. Take the audio guide.
3. Join a tour, if possible. In some museums it is not necessary to book in advance, the group collected directly from visitors. And often guide tells much more than an audio guide.
4. Overhears. It does not sound very ethical, but it is not about personal conversations.
5. Ask questions of museum workers. They know a lot, and some more, and are happy to share information.
6. Use the free audio guide, if any. For example, information on permanent display in major museums can listen to izi application. TRAVEL.

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Natalya Kopylova

Visitors to the museum.

When we visited the Russian Museum, in the hall, allotted under the works of art of the twentieth century, next to us turned out to Dad with his little daughter. He told her at some length and very exciting talking about the transformation of art in this period, the development of Russian and foreign art, about the characteristic features of the areas. I do not know how it is interesting to the child, but we were delighted.

Take a friend

People have different coping with emotions. Someone who likes to be alone, to accumulate experience in itself. And someone breaks the thoughts that immediately need to share. Fill those needs without pleasure is incomplete.

If you belong to the second type, and you can not be happy discoveries and new knowledge alone, call from a satellite that is able to share your jubilation.

Xenia Pelevin

Historian and art critic.

Each - the best cure for boredom. Together, you can discuss what they saw, laugh at jokes that are understandable only to you, take a picture. But do not forget about the rules of conduct in public places.

The presence of a loved one creates a relaxed atmosphere. Whispering and discussing the exhibits will relax you and help you to make something useful for themselves.

Approach the exposure unconventionally

School literature lessons able to kill any love for classical works. The negative consequences are and excursions for children: when you fail drag through the halls, are forbidden to do step aside, it's hard to believe that a hike in the museum can be fun. But try to move away from the role "the viewer forced".

Julia Verbitskaya (Linnik)

The lawyer, an art historian and collector of modern painting.

Try on the role of the collector. Think of the exposition subjects as possible of your personal purchase. What would you like to have at home, and why? How many are willing to pay? In what century the painting was created, or the statue? Who could it be a customer? In which social status he was? Put yourself in his place: you are - count, baron or marquis - choose for themselves exactly this job. What motivates you? How are you feeling?

Positioning itself not as banal spectator but as a participant in the process can turn a boring walk into a lively discussion.

According to Anastasia

Art director of the Gallery of Modern Art Dordor gallery.

The financial benefits - the best motivation to understand contemporary art. Art objects - a real asset whose value increases gradually. Buy now popular author today - means to sell it is several times more expensive than in 3 years, 5, 10 years. Jobs "Power Panther" modern artist Shepard Fairey in 2015 went for 74,000 dollars, she sold on the French auction of 94 000 in 2018.

Use additional opportunities Museum

In addition to the permanent exhibitions in the museums there are temporary exhibitions. For example, from other institutions or from private foundations. Sometimes are public lectures, film screenings, meetings with scientists, artists and other interesting people. All this can be very informative.

Finally, do not discount the souvenir shops.

Oksana Dyachenko

A lover of museums.

I love museums! In each new city I try to visit at least one, is a mandatory part of the program. Firstly, it is informative: you walk through the halls and you feel like your outlook becomes wider. Secondly, it is often in the best museums of viewing platforms. The buildings are located in the most favorable from this point of view places. Third, in gift shops at museums coolest cards.

Secure knowledge and emotions

Visit the museum - is just the beginning, and ideally it should be a starting point for inspiration and new ideas. After the release of the institution is not superfluous to discuss seen with a companion or someone who had been there before. Maybe he saw something that you did not notice, or will complement your impressions its.

According to Anastasia

Art affects the human brain, it relaxes. Popular exercises on mindfulness development using art objects for a deep dive into the inner world. Along with the relaxation one feels inspired. Contemporary art, for example, expands the boundaries of consciousness, translates the idea, pushes to the study. Paintings depicting the "spotting" art objects from the mountains of debris are forced to look at familiar things from a new angle.

And the resulting information can be the starting point for more in-depth study. For example, were sold on the graves of the Scythians - read about the people. Interested in the work of the artist - find out the details of his biography and compare pictures, written in different periods of life. With a hike in the museum everything is just beginning.