On the program :
• The resource book “When the Trees Were Tall” (age 8 – 15) encouraged
students to make links in descriptions of the World Tree in the myths and
legends of various peoples.
• “The Fairy Tale of Prince Zakhar and the Sky-high Tree” (age 5 – 8)
Make a fairy journey together with the famous characters by Alexander
Pushkin and Korney Chukovsky, guess riddles and learn more research
facts.
Number of the contest’s
participants:
more than 1 100 people,
number of artworks – 420.
96 organizations of Saint-
Petersburg, the Leningrad
region and other regions of the
Russian Federation.
In 2010–2011
the National Children
Artworks’ Contest and Temporary
Exhibition “If There Is a Life in the
Sky” were held.
Organizations – 241.
• Museum game for children and parents “To Defeat the Dragon” (for children
aged 7-12 years).
• Free paper and digital resources designed to help kids and parents in self-
directed learning the contest’s theme out of the Museum exhibition (for children
aged 10-15 years).
In 2012 the contest became the interregional project.
Pereslavl-Zalesky State Historical, Architectural and Art Open-Air
Museum got involved in it.
In 2012 on-line voting was firstly held on the Museum web-site.
About 2 000 web-site visitors (children, teens, students, adults)
voted for the best artworks on the virtual gallery “An Eagle, an Ox
and a Lion”.
The Firth National Children
Artworks’ Contest and Temporary
Exhibition “The Hosts of Heaven and
Earth”
3-5 October 2012 The first meeting of the parties and workshop.
15 October 2012 The Children Artworks’ Contest “The Hosts of Heaven and
-20 January 2013 Earth”. Museum sessions, workshops, contest’s artworks.
January - February
2012 Call for Contest’s artworks.