New Year Celebration for the Disabled Children in the Hermitage

Over the last years it has become a tradition at the Hermitage to organize celebration parties for physically and psychologically unbalanced children. The museum provides regular lessons for such children in accordance with a special syllabus. The Christmas holiday is the result of the year's activities of the museum for these children. It is held in the Hermitage theatre. The children get an opportunity to display their abilities in music, dance and singing, play the parts of the characters and heroes of the works of art, and feel, through the costumes, sets, music and poetry, the historic atmosphere of different historic epochs. The active part in the preparation of the scenarios, making the costumes, the sets and productions themselves is taken by the teachers and arts teachers of the schools. The subjects of the performances are different every year - the Ancient times, The Middle Ages, Russian fairy-tales etc., but the all of them have the same title - Our Hermitage. This year the performance is devoted to the 2000th anniversary of Christmas. All the groups were studying at the Hermitage to get to know the works of fine arts related to Christmas. After the tours the children were gladly making their drawings in the rooms of the museum.

Madonna and Child
Ira

Christmas
Sarmen