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Children's space "Tortuga"
m. Street 1905 Goda
From 0 to 11 years
Cost: on weekdays 500 rub. /1 hour, 900 rub./2 hours, 1300 rub./3 hours. Each subsequent hour + 300 rubles,
on weekends 600 rub./1 hour, 1100 rub./2 hours, 1500 rub./3 hours. Each subsequent hour + 300 rubles

You can bring your child to Tortuga for the whole day or for several hours. There is a nanny for kids. The space has two parts: a play area made of natural materials under the ceiling, and a place for creativity, as well as a kitchen for culinary master classes. “Tortuga” was created by Hovhannes Pogosyan, who is developing a microcluster on 2nd Zvenigorodskaya, and child psychologist Anastasia Makhno.

Children's studio "Mishelka"
Patriarch's Ponds
From 2 to 7 years
Cost: game room - 500 rub./hour, master class - 1000 rub.

The studio was founded by designer Yuna Megre and producer Alexey Bokov. The main idea was to create a free environment for children of different ages to play and create. Nobody tries to raise children here, they just play with them. That is why the studio employs “players” instead of the usual teachers. What to do - draw, sculpt, craft - is always chosen only by the child himself.

Hamleys Toy Store
metro station Lubyanka / metro station Kyiv
Any age
Cost: free

In toy stores you can not only choose toys, but also play. At Hamleys in the European there is a LEGO play area and a creativity table. The Central Children's House on Lubyanka has a whole amusement park with a train for kids and a carousel. Animators work in all stores of the chain (from Friday to Saturday from 12.00, and in the Central Children's House every day). In addition, the stores host various children's events.

"Game Gallery" venues
at different venues, until September 4, 2016 – Sokolniki Park
From 1 year
Cost: varies, in Sokolniki for the summer from 600 rubles/children, 300 rubles/adults

“Game Gallery” is best known for its “Steam Locomotive” project, which takes place at various times in the Moskvich Cultural Center and at other venues in Moscow. The project focuses on free play: anyone can come and play in their own rhythm and format. There are animators on the sites - you can contact them in case of any difficulties, but they themselves do not interfere with the game and do not try to control it. The exception is the presenters of the outdoor games block and game experts who explain the rules of board games.

Cultural space "Bukvodom"
m. Sokolniki
From 2 years
Cost: free, events - paid

Artsadik in "Mimidomik"
m. Red Gate
From 2 to 6 years
Cost: from 2,500 rub./day, 1,200 rub. - class

Another 2-story cozy house “Mimidomik”, but in the Bauman Garden. Inside the space there is a loft with windows where you can listen to stories before bedtime. You can also climb to the second floor via a spiral staircase, and go down like a snake through a manhole (pictured on the right). During the school year, Mimidomik operates an Artsadik, where you can bring your child for a day or even one lesson. There is one group of children of different ages - from 4 to 6-7 years old. The garden has architecture, art, theater, photography and film workshops. In the summer there is a children's camp with a similar format, but for older children - 7-12 years old.

Children's clubs-restaurants "Ribambel"
metro station Slavyansky Boulevard "Seasons" / metro station Prospekt Mira Botanichesky Lane
From 1 year (from 3 years old children can play independently, up to 3 years old only with parents)
Cost: Botanical garden - unlimited: 450/900 rubles/weekdays/weekends. “Seasons” – unlimited 600 rub. daily until August 21, 2016

One of the most amazing spaces for children. The room is divided into zones: a children's playground with beautiful toy houses that you can go into and play (there is a hospital, theater, beauty salon, supermarket, Snow White's house and others), an area for joint creativity and master classes, cafes and halls for children's parties , as well as a playpen for those who cannot walk yet, but really want to move. Animators work in all areas. The playhouses feature themed costumes for children so they can fully transform into their favorite characters. Moreover, you can buy the house you like and take it home.

Mom's Sadik
m. Chekhovskaya, Pushkinskaya
From 0 to 8 years
Cost: classes - about 1,000 rubles/time

Another wooden house is located in the Hermitage Garden, right behind the cool children's playground. Mothers with babies love to come here - here you can relax, relax, have lunch, read, or go to an activity with your child (for example, to the Soft School).
Please be aware that many classes will continue into the fall. Then the playroom will open.

Children's club "Smiley"
m. Victory Park
From 3 months to 7 years

Smiley has a kindergarten and a club, both operating according to Montessori principles. Children here are looked after by professional teachers, and classes are held daily in a Montessori environment. In the sensory zone, the child becomes familiar with shapes, colors, and also gains tactile experience by pushing, stringing and feeling objects. In the creative development zone, he gets acquainted with modeling, drawing, and appliqué; There is also a music area. You can study with your mother or without your mother.
In the summer, Smiley runs a camp (from 1.5 years old): you can bring your child for 2 hours or the whole day.

Big Cartoon Festival
from October 27 to November 6
20 venues in Moscow: the Moscow Cinema chain of cinemas, KARO 11 October, Documentary Film Center, cinemas, Pioneer, ZIL Cultural Center and others

Over 12 days, guests will be shown 50 unique cartoon programs and 400 cartoons from all over the world. Free cartoon screenings will also be available in cultural centers, libraries, parks and even post offices. The opening of the BFM will take place at the KARO 11 October cinema, and the Award Ceremony and the end of the Festival will take place at the Cosmos cinema. As part of the BMF, a Cartoon Network exhibition dedicated to the famous TV series Adventure Time will also open.

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Arts Festival for Children “Big Break”
from October 28 to November 5
at different sites in Moscow

This time the festival will not be limited to theaters for children, but will present different types of art: literature, theater, cinema, music, visual arts. Most of the events are created at the intersection of genres: theater and visual technologies, exhibition and master class, performance and group play, concert and storytelling, lecture and performance, etc. Master classes will be held at the festival sites throughout the week. You can learn the techniques of ancient embroidery, draw comics, or complete a quest around Zamoskvorechye.

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All-Russian Children's Book Festival
October 28, 29 and 30
Russian State Children's Library

This year the theme of the festival will be the world of animals and nature conservation. Guests will be treated to an exhibition-fair of children's books from more than 50 Russian publishing houses. Over three days, more than 100 events will be held for all ages: meetings with writers, illustrators, master classes, interactive performances, cinema and cartoon shows.

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Festival of illustrations "Mors"
October 27, 28 and 29
Artplay Design Center

From October 27 to 29, the International Festival of Book Illustration “Mors” takes place. Guests can expect exhibitions of illustrators, lectures and meetings, master classes, exhibitions of works, a publishing and illustrator market. A separate program has been prepared for children. The festival exhibition will feature works by 133 artists from different countries.

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Day of Culture of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
29th of October
children's city of masters "Masterslavl"
tickets: from 300 to 1190 rubles.

Guests will be treated to a screening of Czech cartoons, creative master classes on making jewelry from clay and wooden dolls, cooking classes and tastings, as well as lectures on Czech and Slovak culture. You can get acquainted with the outdoor and board games of the Czech Republic and attend a concert of folk music and dance.

Festival of the Russian Geographical Society
from 3 to 12 November
Central House of Artists
for free

The holiday is dedicated to the peoples of Russia. Over the course of ten days, guests of the holiday will be able to get acquainted with the customs of their near and far neighbors: look into the traditional dwellings of the peoples of Russia, learn the secrets of masters of ancient crafts, listen to centuries-old legends, try on bright national costumes and much more. The festival will bring together ethnographers, travelers, traditional craftsmen, folk ensembles and ethnic fashion designers from all over the country.

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Exhibition “Sportland - the territory of childhood”
from 3 to 6 November
VDNH
tickets: free/from 350 rub.

The exhibition will include sports master classes and competitions, e-sports tournaments, competitions among radio-controlled models, robot battles, strategic laser tag battles, a rope city, and much more. Each child will be able to try themselves in new forms of creativity; the exhibition area will be divided into thematic zones.

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Wildlife Festival "Golden Turtle"
until November 5
Expocentre
tickets: 650 rub. adults, 350 rub. schoolchildren, under 5 years free

The festival will feature the largest exhibition of professional wildlife photography, Golden Turtl. There will be master classes and activities for children, a photo zone with “Smeshariki” and a lecture hall from the magazine “Schrödinger’s Cat”. Visitors will be able to complete an audio quest dedicated to nature conservation, visit a VR cinema, attend film screenings and meetings with photographers.

MASTER CLASSES AND EXCURSIONS

Cartoon Factory
from 3 to 6 November
Cultural center ZIL
from 500 to 1500 rub.

At the Cartoon Factory, children and adults will be able to learn how to create cartoons using various animation techniques over the course of four days, get acquainted with the history of Russian and world animation, and gain experience in project and team work. Each route includes four master classes on various types of animation. For children from 3 to 5 years old there are two routes, for children and adolescents from 7 to 15 years old - four, each of which is dedicated to different topics: “Cinema”, “Theater”, “Sound”, “Illustration”.

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Excursions for schoolchildren to the “Robostation”
from October 27 to November 6
Robot station at VDNKh
tickets: from 350 rub./person.

Children will have a fun and useful journey into the world of technical sciences on the topics: professions of the future, artificial intelligence and neural networks. Robots from different countries, funny tour guides, scientific experiments, a creative area, games, construction sets, puzzles and engineering problems.

Excursion-quest “Game of Imagination”
​until November 5
Museum of Anatoly Zverev
tickets: from 1000 rub.

The excursion is structured in the form of a dialogue-game; each child is given a unique guide book, which contains both intellectual and graphic tasks. Participants will learn what experimentation in art is, how new forms arise, whether it is possible to paint a philosophical still life or create a portrait from a playing card.

Autumn creative laboratories ZIL
from 6 to 12 November
Cultural center ZIL
cost: 15,000 rub.

During the autumn holidays, at the ZIL Cultural Center for schoolchildren, creative laboratories “Poetry Step: Poetic Reconstruction” of the classes of comprehensive cultural education “Vzletka” and “Videoblog” of the McGuffin Youth Film School will be held.

Autumn city club InnoCamp
from October 30 to November 10
scientific discovery center "Innopark"
cost: 10,000 rub./5 days, 2,500 rub./day

During the autumn holidays, InnoCamp in Sokolniki Park invites children to five-day shifts. The program includes creative and scientific master classes, active and board games, outdoor activities. In their free time, children get acquainted with the exhibition of the InnoPark museum, reveal the secrets of phenomena and things, master the laws of physics, carry out experiments, and experiment.

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Autumn workshops at Winzavod
from October 30 to November 5
Creative workshops for all ages
cost: from 350 rub./hour

Children aged 5 years and older are invited to attend classes. Workshops are open daily from 8:30 to 20:30. Children will felt rowan bunches and autumn leaves from wool, sew brooches and funny toys from felt, paint a bright autumn landscape with sponges, make lanterns with colored windows and bird feeders, paint candlesticks with stained glass paints, glue houses for gnomes, make a cartoon about dragons, make soap and scented candles.

Workshops at the Green School
October 31
Gorky Park
tickets: 250 rub.

Interesting workshops are held at the Green School on weekdays and weekends. On different days you can attend sculpture classes, where you create sculptures of various animals with your own hands, a carpentry or pottery workshop, ecology lessons or classes on botany.

EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition by Takashi Murakami “There Will Be Gentle Rain”
daily
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
tickets: 300 rub. adults, 100 rub. schoolchildren, under 10 years free

Takashi Murakami's first personal exhibition in Russia consists of five chapter-sections, each of which is dedicated to a particular phenomenon of Japanese culture. As part of Family Days on weekends, the museum opens creative workshops for children and adults, where each participant will learn new things about the culture of everyday life and holidays of modern Japan, traditional crafts and contemporary art and will be able to create their own work. Teachers will introduce the youngest visitors to the characters and plots of Japanese fairy tales, while older children will enjoy exciting thematic excursions around Takashi Murakami’s exhibition “There Will Be Gentle Rain.”

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Exhibition of works by Alexander Labas “October”
daily except Monday
Institute of Russian Realistic Art
tickets: 300 rubles, discounted tickets – 150 rubles.

The exhibition of the series of graphic and painting works by Alexander Labas “October” is dedicated to the centenary of the 1917 Revolution. The exhibition presents about 50 graphic and painting works - masterpieces from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the Labas Foundation. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of weekly “Art Lunch” lectures and public lectures.

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Exhibition “Energy of Dreams”
from November 3, every day except Tuesday
State Historical Museum
tickets: 350 rub., under 16 years free

A new exhibition at the museum is dedicated to the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. 12 sections of the exhibition will occupy almost the entire space of the State Historical Museum Exhibition Complex. Visitors will be shown unique items created in an era of great hope. There will be something to look at, the titles of the sections alone are worth a lot: “Ours and Others”, “USSR at a Construction Site”, “Wings of Dreams”, “Camping for Culture”, the indispensable: “A healthy mind in a healthy body”.

Multimedia exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci"
daily
Cultural Center ZIL
tickets: adults - 450/600 rubles, schoolchildren - 350/400 rubles, under 7 years free

Guests of the exhibition will see such masterpieces as “Benois Madonna”, “Annunciation”, “Portrait of Ginevra Benci”, “Adoration of the Magi”, “Madonna of the Rocks”, “Lady with an Ermine”, “Madonna Litta”, “Mona Lisa”, etc. The multimedia project conveys the story of a genius in a bright and non-standard format; the paintings come to life before the eyes of visitors, revealing the hidden meaning embedded in each of them.

PERFORMANCES

Performances of the festival “See the Music”
October 28, 31, November 1
Palace of Culture "Rublevo", theater named after. N.Sats
tickets: from 150 rub.

The festival of musical theater performances "Seeing the Music" will show several performances for children - some of them during the holidays. So, on October 28, a performance will be held at the Rublevo Palace of Culture "Hello I'm your aunt!" Theater "On Basmannaya" for spectators from 6 years old. In the musical theater named after. N. Sats you can see the musicals of the children's theater "Carambol" from St. Petersburg: "Ugly duck"(October 31, 6+) and "Joseph and the Dreamcoat"(November 1, 12+).

Tours of the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater
From October 24 to October 31
Moscow Regional Puppet Theater
tickets: 750 rub.

At the Moscow Puppet Theater you can watch performances brought by the Khabarovsk Puppet Theater. From October 29 to October 31, viewers aged 5 years and older will enjoy a multimedia puppet show play "Nonsense-ha-ha". Sessions take place at 11:00 and 16:00.

Performances at the Sphere Theater
October 28, November 3 and 5
Sfera Theater, Hermitage Garden
tickets: from 500 rub.

On October 28 and November 3, the theater will show Ulf Stark’s book for teenagers, and on November 5, the Sphere will host marathon of performances about Prostodursen: “Prostodursen, the Marzipan Festival and the Great Spring Day”, “Prostodursen, the Great Riverside Theater and the Goldfish”, “Prostodursen and the Great Theft of the River”.

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Circus show "The Little Prince"
October 29 and 31, November 1, 2, 4, 5
Circus of Miracles on Kuntsevskaya
tickets: from 450 rub.

Spectators can expect a big show program dedicated to the star boy. The performance features famous circus performers, acrobats, trained animals and truly funny clowns. The production combines circus, multimedia, laser, sand, music and interactive shows.

Show "Armored Robot: Robot Fights"
29th of October
SC "Olympic"
tickets: 400-5000 rub.

Steel machines will collide in a spectacular battle in the new season of robot battles “Armorbot”. Guests will be treated to three grand shows in one day. This year, roboticists from Holland, England and Belgium will also take part in the Russian tournament. Fair robot battles will be assessed according to several criteria: aggression, damage, strategy and control.