Family Holiday with the Arsenal
We traditionally hold our Family Weekends to tell children and their parents about our current exhibitions in an entertaining manner. On these days we make special guided tours and masterclasses on how to make art with the techniques suggested by contemporary artists, so that our guests could create and play too.
For this New Year we decided to make something similar, and came up with more than a Family Weekend, but a whole Family Holiday instead. And it will be dedicated not just to what’s going in the Arsenal right now, but also to the memories of the exhibitions which took place here on the New Years of the past.
For the first time we collected the works by the participants of workshops The Arsenal + Family in a virtual exhibition of the last year’s summer. And we liked the result! The children could see in this exhibition both their own pieces and the pieces made by other children, and learn in how many different ways one and the same subject or technique can be used when artists have their ideas and use their own creative methods. We decided to get on with it, and that’s why we’re presenting you the virtual exhibition by the participants of the programme The Arsenal + Family of autumn-winter 2020. The pieces of the exhibition were created in the workshops Colour. Shape. Material (trainer Alevtina Nikonova), Family Workshops (trainer Irina Aganina) and Central Characters of Contemporary Art (trainer Rimma Gaze). This exhibition is a summary of the year of sorts and our small gift for you on the occasion. Happy New Year!
We recommend to use a computer for playing the games and viewing the exhibition.
Let’s play with the Arsenal
Quest
For the younger friends of the Arsenal we prepared the New Year’s Quest The Arsenal Havoc. You will have riddles to solve, pictures to colour, and our templates to make your own Christmas tree trimmings by.
Print out this PDF and help find the lost exhibit. We will be glad if you put your story on the social media about the outcome of your adventures, but please don’t forget the tag ncca_arsenal.
We recommend to use a computer for playing the games and viewing the exhibition.
Memory Game
Do you too love the New Year in the Arsenal? It’s the time when adults become children, and children become wise. Each New Year in our Theatre for a Solo Artist there’s magic happening: friendship of the Moon and a boy, a journey across the Universe, or even a festivity in an amusement arcade that never was. That’s something to be amazed by, remember, and get inspired with to make your own fairy tale. Looks like a right thing to do, to create magic, especially together with an Artist.
We offer you a non-standard version of a memory or matching pairs game where looking at the photos you will have to recognize a piece of art by a small fragment and then collect them into a Memory of the New Year Adventures in the Arsenal.
We recommend to use a computer for playing the games and viewing the exhibition.
Jigsaw Puzzles
Collecting your own art object out of 12, 24, or more pieces is a pleasure. Merry-Go-Round is part of the project Immortality Mechanism by Ivan Plushh within Theatre for a Solo Artist. By the way, the difficulty level of the puzzle can be varied.
We recommend to use a computer for playing the games and viewing the exhibition.
Masterclass in Making Christmas-tree Trimmings
Our Museum’s trainer Irina Aganina made a video with a masterclass of making Christmas trimmings for children. The inspiration for the masterclass was the art by Yakov Khorev which you will see soon in the Arsenal’s yard, and the Soviet-time tree decorations made of tinfoil which many of you saw in your childhood.