On 26 October 2022, staff members of Bolgar Museum-Reserve visited Yoshkar-Ola to participate in the general meeting of the Interregional public organization “Council of Museums of the Volga Federal District” as well as to exchange experiences within the framework of inter-museum cooperation and to get useful information. Colleagues organized for their guests an extensive and colorful excursion program with visits to museums, sightseeing tour of the city and a walk along the waterfront.
G. R. Prokofieva, the head of excursion department of Bolgar Museum-Reserve, and G.K. Hramova, the head of the department of museum-educational activities, took part in the general meeting of the Museum Council, where about 130 people from 40 museums of Volga Federal District were present. Business platforms worked in Mari State Philharmonic Hall named after Yakov Eshpai where G. R. Prokofieva made a report “Development of tourism in Bolgar Museum Reserve”.
In the cultural and exhibition center “Tower”, there was a platform “Best practices and problems of implementation of the program “Pushkin’s Card”. Here were discussed questions relating to training and retraining of personnel and additional education of museum workers, implementation of the “Pushkin’s Card” program, etc. G. K. Hramova made a report “Implementation of the program “Pushkin’s Card” in the State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve of RT”.
The rest of the staff went on an excursion program. The first object of the visit was “The National Museum of the Republic of Mari El named after Timofey Evseev”. Informative tour, familiarization with the expositions “Life cycle rites: Traditional culture of the Mari people of XIX-XX centuries”, “The amazing world of animals. Specially protected natural territories of the Republic of Mari El”, a story about the life and customs of the Mari people have not left anyone indifferent.
Beautiful sunny weather allowed to see the historical places of the city and take a walk along the waterfront. At the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin, colleagues met Ksenia Nikolaevna, a research associate of the Museum of history of the city. Under her leadership, the staff went to the Museum of History of the city Yoshkar-Ola. The museum is located in the main house of the Chulkov estate. It is a historical and cultural monument of regional importance. Here the museum employee Olga Valerievna gave a tour of the museum exhibition devoted to the history of the city since its founding.
At the end of the excursion program, employees visited a unique cultural site, which presents Mari national folklore – “Museum of Mari fairy tales”. Such experience exchange meetings are very important and useful, as it gives impetus for further development of the museum business.

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