The City Window (Okno v Gorod) online service to broadcast the Pushkin Museum entrance area

The Okno v Gorod ( the City Window) online broadcasting service will show the area near the entrance to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts that is accepting visitors for free for two weeks.

The Department of Information Technology has launched online CCTV broadcasting. “We plan to use one camera installed in Volkhonka Street,” said a department official. “It will show the entrance to the public garden in front of the museum, and also the area at the entrance to the museum, so that Moscow residents can see whether there are queues and when it is best to see an exhibition.”

Entry to the Pushkin Museum is going to be free until 30 October. Free tickets issued at the ticket office of the main museum building provide access to the permanent exposition and two other exhibitions: “The Art of Living. The Interior of a Burgher’s House in the Netherlands in the Age of Progress” and “Piranesi. Before and After. Italy-Russia. 18th-21st centuries.” Free tickets do not include entry to the exposition “Raphael. Poetry of Image.”.

One of the expositions is devoted to the great Italian artist of the 18th century Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), an engraver, graphic artist, architect, decorator and researcher. The exposition features over 100 etchings, engravings and drawings of the artist’s predecessors and successors, as well as casts, coins, medals and books. There are also cork models and graphic sheets. Piranesi’s engraving boards will be open for Russian art admirers for the first time. In all, about 400 works of the artist are on display.

The exhibition “The Art of Living. The Interior of a Burgher’s House in the Netherlands in the Age of Progress” combines fine art and craft objects. The exhibition includes 11 paintings by famous masters depicting scenes from everyday life. Among them are “A Mother’s Duty” by Pieter de Hooch, “A Woman with Her Sewing” by Gabriël Metsu, “The Morning Toilet of a Young Lady” by Frans van Mieris the Elder and “The Chess Players” by Cornelis de Man.

The Okno v Gorod service was launched in December 2014 at the request of Moscow residents. Ever since, users have been able to see online more than 30 city events. This year, the portal streamed several festivals and cultural events, car racing, the Victory Parade and its rehearsals, the Immortal Regiment march and City Day. Users also now have the option of subscribing to updates on Moscow events to be broadcast by CCTV cameras online. To subscribe, enter your email address in the upper corner of the Okno v Gorod page and click on “Send me updates”.