Museum of Russian Icons

[Svetlana Malykhina]

Museum of Russian Icons
203 Union Street
Clinton, MA 01510
http://www.museumofrussianicons.org/
 
Tara Young, Education and Program Specialist at the Museum of Russian Icons asked me to pass along this invitation addressed to Russian programs in the area and those who travel to Boston. 
 
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to attend the Museum of Russian Icons, a non-profit educational museum in Clinton, MA. The collection of Russian icons, which is the largest such a collection in North America and one of the largest outside of Russia, spans six centuries, and includes important historical icons dating from the earliest periods of icon painting up to the present. 
 
Now the Museum hosts two ground-breaking international cultural exchanges between the United States and Russia: 
 
Two Museums/One Culture (on exhibit through May 1, 2009), displays 16 significant RUssian icons from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and comprises some of the most important RUssian icons ever to come to the USA from a RUssian national museum;
 
Palekh: From Icons to Souvenir Boxes to Icons (on exhibit through May 1, 2009) presents Palekh, the Russian folk handicraft of miniature painting with tempera on varnished objects made of papier-mâché. 
 
Museum Education offers a wealth of exciting programs for students of all levels and backgrounds, including courses and lectures. This is the place where students can examine the Museum’s treasures, connect directly to the Russian culture and have 
fun learning interactively.  The Museum can accommodate thematic tours.. 
Listed below are several topics to be covered in conjunction with the exhibition:
Icon painting schools 
Old Slavonic texts on the icons
Early Russian history through icons
Links between Literature and Icons in Medieval  Russia
Famous Icon Painters
Originality and Byzantine influence in Russian Medieval art
Palekh art: past and present
Russian Fairy Tales’ motifs in lacquer box craft    
 
For more information please reply off list, or ask students to reply to 
Tara Young tyoung at museumofrussianicons.org 
Svitlana Malykhina (smalykhina at yahoo.com)


      

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