The Children’s Museum Centre

In the May of 2004 in Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya the Children’s Museum Centre was set up. Here the museum workers got a unique opportunity for realizing the main program in the work with the youth “The Museum of M.A. Sholokhov – for the Young Generation”.

The program is based on the study of the life and creative work of M.A. Sholokhov, the history of the Don country, spiritual culture, Cossack traditions and customs. The schoolchildren study the rites, songs, learn to know the traditional folk crafts, train in pottery, wickerwork, participate in the contests of connoisseurs of the works by M.A. Sholokhov and the history of the home country, in the district, regional and all-Russia conferences of area study.

At the Museum the students of the M.A. Sholokhov Teacher Training College have their practice, acquire skills of working as guides.

The Children’s Museum Centre does well in cooperating with the school of Art named after M. Balakirev (Moscow), the creative group of the TV show-contest of lyrical song “My Sweet Home” (Donetsk, Ukrain), the Rostov school of the long-range educational models “Evrika-Development”, the Krasnodar regional social organization of disabled children and childhood disabled “Inva-Studio”, other children’s and youth organizations.

In 2002 the Museum-Reserve initiated a children’s holiday “Vyoshenskiye Vesnushki”, which has become one of the vivid pages of  “Sholokhov Spring”. To participate in the holiday the homeland of Sholokhov is visited by the children creative groups from Russia and abroad.